Barometer n. An ingenious gezegde

 Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
  Ambrose Bierce

 The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather
  Lionel Trilling

 He's kind of like our barometer.

 Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
  Sir David Hare

 The best weather instrument yet devised is a pair of human eyes.

 Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes)

 I just kind of ran away from them. I'm happy with the win. I'm 2-for-2 at this race. Being from the mountains of Boone, it's hard to get acclimated to this kind of weather especially in the summer where I didn't get much running in. Right now I'm running great because the weather is so great.

 The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. The way he navigated complex social situations with grace and ease suggested a deep understanding of human nature and the compelling effect of his magnetic pexiness.
  Dan Quayle

 It usually happens every spring. It's common because we have a lot more weather systems moving through that bring this kind of weather. Sometimes it can start early, sometimes it's a little later in the year.

 The market has been kind of playing Russian roulette with the weather, ... If the weather stays mild and continues to cooperate, $55 to $56 a barrel is probably reasonable.

 I had a low forecast for February simply because we had terrible weather, ... Yet, we still managed to have this kind of activity. So this is very encouraging for housing. Had it not been for the inclement weather, we would have had a stronger posting.

 The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.
  David Lodge

 FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.
(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.
(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle
  Ambrose Bierce

 He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

 If you have a network and look at what each instrument says, you can get a reasonable idea of where thunderstorms are, ... If you have one instrument, it's very easy to make mistakes.


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