To-day the weather is severely and remarkably cold. It is not easy to keep warm in my chamber. I have not taken a more blustering walk this past winter than this afternoon. Notwithstanding this day is so cold that I keep my ears covered, the sidewalks melt in the sun, such is its altitude. The coldness of the air blown from the icy northwest prevails over the heat of the sun.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 15, 1853
I have not taken a more blustering walk this past winter than this afternoon. See March 28, 1854 ("Coldest day for a month or more, — severe as almost any in the winter."); March 28, 1855 ("I run about these cold and blustering days, on the whole perhaps the worst to bear in the year, . . . looking almost in vain for some animal or vegetable life stirring. As for the singing of birds, — the few that have come to us, — it is too cold for them to sing and for me to hear. "); March 12, 1856 ("We had a colder day in the winter of ’54 and ’55 than in the last, yet the ice did not get to be so thick. . . . If the present cold should continue uninterrupted a thousand years would not the pond become solid?"); March 13, 1857 ("This month has been windy and cold, a succession of snows one or two inches deep, soon going off, the spring birds all driven off. ")
I have not taken a more blustering walk this past winter than this afternoon. See March 28, 1854 ("Coldest day for a month or more, — severe as almost any in the winter."); March 28, 1855 ("I run about these cold and blustering days, on the whole perhaps the worst to bear in the year, . . . looking almost in vain for some animal or vegetable life stirring. As for the singing of birds, — the few that have come to us, — it is too cold for them to sing and for me to hear. "); March 12, 1856 ("We had a colder day in the winter of ’54 and ’55 than in the last, yet the ice did not get to be so thick. . . . If the present cold should continue uninterrupted a thousand years would not the pond become solid?"); March 13, 1857 ("This month has been windy and cold, a succession of snows one or two inches deep, soon going off, the spring birds all driven off. ")
Notwithstanding this day is so cold that I keep my ears covered, the sidewalks melt in the sun, such is its altitude. See March 18, 1856 ("“Two little water-bugs . . .Notwithstanding the backwardness of the season, all the town still under deep snow and ice, here they are, in the first open and smooth water, governed by the altitude of the sun.")
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