 | Thomas Allen - Yorkshire (England) - 1889 - 384 pages
...for when its top begins to be darkened with clouds, rain generally follows. Hence arises the common proverb : — " When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap." The summit of this pyramidical hill, which rises near the village of Newton, and about a mile to the... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - England - 1861 - 452 pages
...gathering about the summit, a wellknojm landmark; for a storm is sure to follow, and the folks say, " When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap" (a heavy shower). 252 SKINNIN-GRAVE SALTBURN. Camden says a fountain here is good for sore eyes ; it... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - England - 1861 - 452 pages
...gathering about the summit, a wellkno jvn landmark ; for a storm is sure to follow, and the folks say, " When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap" (a heavy shower). 8 2 Camden says a fountain here is good for sore eyes ; it trickles still under an... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Proverbs, English - 1882 - 586 pages
...done, my lady is ready. H. When pride rides, shame lacqueys. When riches increase, the body decreaseth. When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, let Cleveland then beware of a clap. e. Cotton MS. Julius, F. C, 455, printed in Antiq. Repert., ed. 1807. vol. iii. p. 307, in an old account... | |
 | Folk-songs, English - 1892 - 588 pages
...French = Rye vales, as Jorvaulx = Yore vales. It is three miles from Helmsley by the high road. CA. 264. When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap. Roseberry Topping is a high hill visible a long way off, all about the neighbourhood of Gisborough,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1900 - 636 pages
...district says — When Hood Hill puts on its cap Hambleton's sure to come down with a clap. And again — When Roseberry Topping wears a cap Let Cleveland then beware of a clap. Another very familiar couplet refers to Ingleborough — When Ingleborough wears a hat Ribblesdale... | |
 | Gordon Home - Yorkshire (England) - 1904 - 304 pages
...peak as a sign of approaching storms, having reduced the warning to the easily-remembered couplet : ' When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap.' 107 14—2 In a similar manner the Scarborough folk used Oliver's Mount, the isolated hill at the back... | |
 | Gordon Home - Travel - 1907 - 298 pages
...peak as a sign of approaching storms, having reduced the warning to the easily-remembered couplet : 4 When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap.1 107 14—2 In a similar manner the Scarborough folk used Oliver's Mount, the isolated hill at... | |
 | Gordon Home - England - 1908 - 784 pages
...peak as a sign of approaching storms, having reduced the warning to the easily -remembered couplet : ' When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, Let Cleveland then beware of a clap.' In a similar manner the Scarborough folk used Oliver's Mount, the isolated hill at the back of the... | |
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... meadows, arable land, and woodlands, and his only warfare is with the lower strata of storm-clouds, which is a convenient thing for the people who live in these parts; for long ago they used the peak as a sign of approaching storms, having reduced... 