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All our Little Brothers

... roads and forests with Ivo of eighteen, laboured beside him in harvest-field or vineyard, and lain beside him under the sky at night. It was now wonderful indeed to know of their two rooms, their good dinners, her solid clothes and his gold- braided uniform ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1933
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7516 | Page: 35 | Tags: Illustrations 

Hearts of Oak: Trafalgar, Nelson--the roads to England's glory

... Cadiz in search of Napoleon's battle fleet. Astern, the men- o'-war swing lofty topsails in the sky, faint white squares against the gloom. It is still dark night of that famous October morning of 1805 the time of England's greatest naval triumph is at hand ...

Published: Monday 01 March 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4865 | Page: 134 | Tags: Illustrations 

Old Tales Re-told: The Temptations and Adventures; of Fra Jeronimo de Aguilar

... navigators was to run for the island of Jamaica, but the hurricane pushed them ever farther and farther away from it. Every night was a night of terror, and every da}' a day of despair. The valiant crew accom plished miracles of energy and resource in an effort ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4071 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

Wet or Fine: Some Barometer Predictions and Weather Proverbs

... if they sit down in long grass, the barometer is set fair. Of course, we've all quoted axioms such as Red sky at night Shepherd's delight; Red sky at morning, Shepherd's warning. A more attractive version of the same I proverb is the Shropshire Evening ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1293 | Page: 73 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Weather: What Do We Know About It?

... to obscure the sun, and so no banks of cumulus cloud on the way bringing rain. That red sky at night is something of a fallacy is proved by the converse red sky in the morning supposed to be the shepherd's warning. This dawn red is not caused by dust ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2020 | Page: 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

Fireflies In October: A Romance Of War And Peace

... Caroline really began. That was in October 1940 when the intensive night-bombing of London had just started. He was under orders for overseas then, and he had gone down to stay the night at Wendover with Caroline's father her mother was dead to say good-bye ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3111 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

Weather Forecasting in Rhyme

... at once. The prophetic glory of the sky has re mained unchanged throughout the centuries the blue, the dark clouds with a silver lining, and the rainbow the Creator's promise of better days ahead. A red sky at night is a shepherd's delight, just as truly ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations 

What's It Like On The Moon?

... vast dazzlingly-lit sphere with all its contours plainly visible. The surrounding space will not be black as we see the sky at night, but dark blue and wonderfully clear and trans parent. The sun would still be visible, glowing with startling incandescence ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1186 | Page: 82 | Tags: Illustrations