Wintry

Examples

• The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone of the houses looked cold. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• So goes the wintry day outside the Dedlock mansion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As he went out into the wintry night, New York again became vast and imminent, and May Welland the loveliest woman in it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• At about this point, Mr. Gradgrind's eye would fall upon her; and under the influence of that wintry piece of fact, she would become torpid again. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Upon this wintry night it is so still that listening to the intense silence is like looking at intense darkness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the wintry sun. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The water-wheel of the paper-mill was audible there, and seemed to have a softening influence on the bright wintry scene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was a wintry afternoon, with red in the sky, when they arrived at the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The shadows of the wintry afternoon were beginning to fall, and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was all the darker from contrast with the pale gray-blue of the wintry sky; for in Heston there had been the earliest signs of frost. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was cold and wintry and the wind was blowing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Not far from the limit of impecuniosity was Edison himself, as he landed in Boston in 1868 after this wintry ordeal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• How well I recollect the wintry ride! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He watches it as it falls, throughout the whole wintry day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The wind was bleak, and frequent sleet or snow-storms, added to the melancholy appearance wintry nature assumed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But the wintry morning wants him not and wakes him not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The weather was temperate; soft rains fell at night, and by day the wintry sun shone out. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The first of December was a wintry day indeed to them, for a bitter wind blew, snow fell fast, and the year seemed getting ready for its death. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Our approach to Dover was announced by the loud roarings of the wintry sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Shall we, in these desart halls, under this wintry sky, sit with closed eyes and folded hands, expecting death? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• RETURN I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Fling Paris back into the distance, then, exchanging it for endless avenues and cross-avenues of wintry trees! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The evening came on very wintry, and we persuaded her to stay all night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Editor: Margaret