Careful Words

weather (n.)

weather (v.)

weather (adj.)

  Fair weather cometh out of the north.

Old Testament: Job xxxvii. 22.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Life! we 've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;

'T is hard to part when friends are dear,—

Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear;

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime

Bid me "Good morning."

Mrs Barbauld (1743-1825): Life.

  When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

New Testament: Matthew xvi. 2.

Nought cared this body for wind or weather

When youth and I lived in 't together.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Youth and Age.