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C) MAY:
1) …though it comes, like a snow in May, somewhat out of season.
(The Prairie, Ch. XXIX, p. 1248, The Library of America,
[485/575], April 1827: London; May 1827: Philadelphia)
2) Ruth was too long accustomed to such forest scenes, and to such a ‗lingering of
winter in the lap of May,‘ to feel, on their account, any additional uneasiness.
(The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, Ch. VIII, p. 126/496, 1828)
3) I took but two oars, wishing to prolong the pleasure of the passage, and, the
weather being bland as May, we had a delightful pull across this sheet [=Wallensee].
(Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland – Cooper Edition/SUNY, Letter
XVII, p. 181, 1836 – Referring to Sept. 13, 1828)
4) We have had a magnificent autumn, and winter, the weather for a week before I
left home, having been that of May.
(Letters and Journals, Vol. III, p. 304, Letter 4487, To William
Branford Shubrick, From Astor-house [New-York), Jan – 21 st 1838)
5) The truth is just this. The Seven Dollies was lying among the rest of them, at
10nchor, below Canton, with the weather as fine as young girls love to see it in May,
when Joe began to get down his yards, to house his masts, and to send out all his spare
anchors. (Homeward Bound – CSPCT, vol. 18, Ch. X, p. 90, 1838)
6) [A steamboat passage up the Hudson:] It was a lovely, bland morning in the last
week of May; and the atmosphere was already getting the soft hues of summer, or
assuming the hazy and solemn calm that renders the season so quiet and soothing after
the fierce strife of the elements.
(Home as Found – CSPCT, vol. 19, Ch. VIII, p. 87, 1838)
7) Letter # 674. To Mrs. Cooper, New-York, May 13 th 1842:
It is warm and pleasant, but very little rain. I never saw the country more lovely.
(Letters and Journals, Vol. IV, p. 287)
8) This is a glorious May day—bland, bright and exhilarating.
(Letters and Journals, Vol. V, p. 13, Letter 791, To Mrs. Cooper;
New York, March 5 th 1845/St. Polks eve – Festival of
Democracy)
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