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Wintery  adj.  Wintry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wintery" Quotes from Famous Books



... pale, scarce-wrinkled face and forehead; seeming, with his placid, symmetrical features, and great velvet bonnet, under which such silver hairs as remained were soberly tucked away, and with his long dark robes which swept the ground, more like a dignified gentlewoman than a statesman, but for the wintery beard which lay like a ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... lie under an aged holm, sometimes on the matted grass: meanwhile the waters glide along in their deep channels; the birds warble in the woods; and the fountains murmur with their purling streams, which invites gentle slumbers. But when the wintery season of the tempestuous air prepares rains and snows, he either drives the fierce boars, with many a dog, into the intercepting toils; or spreads his thin nets with the smooth pole, as a snare for the voracious thrushes; or catches in his gin the timorous hare, or that ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace

... face that has the expression of a half-open clam. He is always ready to talk with you, this amphibious person; and if he is not the most entertaining of gossips—more weather-wise that Old Probabilities, and as full of moving incident as Othello himself—then he is not the wintery-haired shipman I used to see a few years ago on the strip of beach just beyond Liberty Bridge, building his drift-wood fire under a great tin boiler, and making it lively for a lot of ...
— An Old Town By The Sea • Thomas Bailey Aldrich



Words linked to "Wintery" :   winter-blooming, hibernal, brumal, hiemal, winter, autumnal, summery, vernal, wintry



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