I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

New York lay bleaching in the summer sun, and the morning fish hawk, flying in the heated air, saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan Island.

With naked gas jets below and leaky windows above, enough to ruin wall paintings in any medium, they have survived, in a building long unheated in winter, hot and damp under the iron dome in summer.

The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

Cultivation of cumin requires a long, hot summer of 3 – 4 months, with daytime temperatures around ; it is drought-tolerant, and is mostly grown in Mediterranean climates.

The city experiences long summer days and short winter days.

Only in the south coast summer is as long as winter.

At the beginning of A Song of Ice and Fire the continent has enjoyed a decade-long summer, and many fear that an equally long and harsh winter will follow.

The bill was large at long and curved downwards at the top ; the bill also had deep white grooves in both the upper and lower mandibles, up to seven on the upper mandible and twelve on the lower mandible in summer, though there were fewer in winter.

It can equally well be used for an action that took time, as long as it is conceived of as a unit, with a clearly defined start and end, such as " Last summer I visited France ".

Hanover experiences a warm summer continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ), with long, cold, snowy winters, and warm, humid summers.

The summer days are relatively long and May to August is the driest period.

: That summer evening long ago,

The country's long summer reaches a peak during August.

Nicholas Ray died in the summer of 1979 after a long fight with cancer.

The climate is exceedingly severe — very hot and humid in the short summer, and extremely cold during the long winter.

In the summer, daylight hours are long and in the winter short.

Lebanon has a Mediterranean climate characterized by a long, hot, and dry summer, and cool, rainy winter.

( Think high latitudes in summer: long days, short to no nights.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

The long boardwalk at The Western Harbour, Scaniaparken and Daniaparken, has become a new favourite summer hang-out for the people of Malmö and is a popular place for bathing.

Traditionally, bonfires were lit to mark the coming of summer and to banish the long nights of winter.

Classical authors explained the summer flood by calculating the time it took for flood waters to move down a river, and calculating how long the Nile must have been for the waters to travel from a mountain range in the spring.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Annual rainfall is approximately and in a normal year there are two distinct rainy seasons: " the long rains ", which fall during April and May, and " the short rains ", which fall during October and November.

So in May 1893 a new regulation to all chiefs of police, stated that the police should not intervene, if the two last fields in the flag were longer than 6 / 4 as long as these did not exceed 7 / 4, and provided that this was the only rule violated.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

In Africa, East Africa-including Kenya, Tanzania, and the White Nile basin-experiences, in the long rains from March to May, wetter-than-normal conditions.

On 9 May 2008, the Falkland Islands Government asserted that the minefields which represent 0. 1 % of the available farmland on the islands " present no long term social or economic difficulties for the Falklands " and that the impact of clearing the mines would cause more problems than containing them.

In May 1954, the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a fourth pit, a long, narrow rectangle, still covered with slabs of stone weighing up to 15 tons.

Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

On May 7, 2008 Lebanon's 17-month long political crisis spiraled out of control.

Last May, a gentleman residing in Edinburgh, personally unknown to me, who had long resided in India, favored me with a letter expressing his approbation of the views which I had published on the nature and causes of hypnotic and mesmeric phenomena.

The long, relatively flat pass is often snow-covered during the winter season and as a consequence is generally closed from November 30 to May 1.

On 26 May 2007, Gordon Holmes, a 55-year-old lab technician, captured video of what he said was " this jet black thing, about long, moving fairly fast in the water.

first shown in May 2009 as part of the long running Horizon series.

Celebrations often take place not on May 1 but during the Victoria Day long weekend, later in the month and when the weather is likely to be better.

The foundations were rediscovered in May 2003, revealing a building long and wide.

April and May are months of intense water stress when cumulative effects of the long dry season are exacerbated by temperatures rising over.

On 31 May 1188 he concluded a treaty with the Romans which removed long standing difficulties, thus returning the Papacy to Rome.