And though the original monasteries would have been cold and damp in winter, here the arcades are glazed, an innovation that would have delighted the Benedictine monks who once shivered among the same stones.
In temperate grasslands the growing season is usually the short period between the cold, damp winter and the hot, dry summer.
I try to envision his last winter, London, cold and damp, the snow's curt kisses on empty streets, the Thames' black water.
Cooder is sitting in a suite at the Hotel Bristol in Paris on a cold, damp winter afternoon talking about his new album, Mambo Sinuendo.
And the lovely Garonne, which passes I try to envision his last winter, London, cold and damp, the snow's curt kisses on empty streets, the Thames' black water.
by Sharon Levy I try to envision his last winter, London, cold and damp, the snow's curt kisses on empty streets, the Thames' black water.
In the weeks before his death in a Moscow prison, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky drafted a series of handwritten letters and petitions describing his transfer through a succession of crowded jail cells, some reeking of sewage, others cold and damp, each more awful than the last.
Lower solar activity means – broadly speaking – that there is less agitation of the warm currents of air from the tropical to the temperate zones, so that a place like Britain can expect to be colder and damper in summer, and colder and snowier in winter.
Paris in the winter can be cold and damp.
But this summer was particularly cold and damp.
