"Hibernating" Quotes from Famous Books
... thermometer goes (as it does go) away - away below zero, till it can be seen no more by the eye of man - not the thermometer, which is still perfectly visible, but the mercury, which curls up into the bulb like a hibernating bear; you should also see the lad who 'does chores' for us, with his red stockings and his thirteen year old face, and his highly manly tramp into the room; and his two alternative answers to all questions about the weather: either 'Cold,' or with a really lyrical movement of the voice, 'LOVELY ... — Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to take lessons from the bears and practise hibernating. But, like them, he would no doubt be very ... — Steve Young • George Manville Fenn |