August

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August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is a summer month in the Northern Hemisphere, and a winter month in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

Quotes

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.

• The August cloud * * * suddenly
  Melts into streams of rain.
  • William Cullen Bryant, Sella.

• In the parching August wind,
  Cornfields bow the head,
  Sheltered in round valley depths,
  On low hills outspread.
  • Christina G. Rossetti, A Year's Windfalls, Stanza 8.

• Dead is the air, and still! the leaves of the locust and walnut
  Lazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlines
  Rather on space than the sky
  -on a tideless expansion of slumber.
  • Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, August.