I take my place in the open, intending to lift clear of myself, beyond the miserable sky-litter of planes circling in their stack, until I arrive in the star fields and find the gods still playing their long-drawn-out games.
Can't bear another miserable grey sky?
And as I walked (and walked and walked) to escape them, jet lag, fatigue and the gray skies' miserable drizzle conspired to drain my energy.
The turkey arrived in England some time during the reign of Henry VIII, and by the mid-sixteenth century was being widely bred, especially in East Anglia, a barren, windswept, flat land, distinguished by its open sky and its miserable damp climate and its modest agriculture — beets, cabbage, and eels were regional delicacies.
Fewer butterflies flew in British skies in the miserable summer of 2012 than for thousands of years, leaving several species in danger of extinction from parts of the country.
5pm "Miserable," says Mike Atherton, hiding under a Sky Sports umbrella out in the middle.
The popularity "is on a curve pointing to the sky, and the content is miserable," Mr. Riccitiello said.
New colors were added to our wartime TV palette: in addition to nightscope green, there was now bilious yellow and apocalyptic orange blanketing our screens, making it impossible to distinguish between earth and sky, except when the occasional ghostly tank or miserable human figure moved in the background behind the miserable reporter.
And after the miserable summer of 2012, there were fewer butterflies in British skies in 2013 than for thousands of years, leaving several species in danger of extinction from parts of the country.
Finally The Village (BBC1, Sunday), Peter Moffat's ambitious historical project – grittier than Peak District gritstone, greyer than the Derbyshire sky, earthier than the soil the Middleton family scratches a miserable living from.
