Being the seventh of January, we have very properly laid in the new
almanac. It is more than likely that Porlock took his message from the old one.
George is so occupied with the
almanac over the fireplace (calculating the coming months by it perhaps) that he does not look round until she has gone away and the door is closed upon her.
The said "hog-yoke," an Eldridge chart, the farming
almanac, Blunt's "Coast Pilot," and Bowditch's "Navigator" were all the weapons Disko needed to guide him, except the deep-sea lead that was his spare eye.
Thus for sixteen days I saw from my window a hundred men at work like busy husbandmen, with teams and horses and apparently all the implements of farming, such a picture as we see on the first page of the
almanac; and as often as I looked out I was reminded of the fable of the lark and the reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they are all gone, and in thirty days more, probably, I shall look from the same window on the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces will appear that a man has ever stood there.
Bob Sawyer proceeded to divert himself by peeping into the desk, looking into all the table drawers, feigning to pick the lock of the iron safe, turning the
almanac with its face to the wall, trying on the boots of Mr.
By reference to the
almanac a large amount of territory will be discovered upon which its rays also fell.
Her employment, diversified by an occasional glance at the pot, now beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year's Massachusetts
Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black-letter Bible, comprised all the literary wealth of the family.
After that we could walk about the village in the pouring rain until bed-time; or we could sit in a dimly-lit bar-parlour and read the
almanac.
MacGlue quietly consulted his pocket
almanac before he replied.
A broken slate that had blown off the roof, an inch or two of pencil, an old
almanac for a reader, several bits of brown or yellow paper ironed smoothly and sewn together for a copy-book, and the copies sundry receipts written in Aunt Plenty's neat hand.
Nowadays I'm so drove I get along with the
Almanac, the Weekly Argus, and the Maine State Agriculturist.--There's the river again; this is the last long hill, and when we get to the top of it we'll see the chimbleys of Riverboro in the distance.
Piperson consulted an
almanac, and felt Pigling's ribs; it was too late in the season for curing bacon, and he grudged his meal.