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Quotes About Wintry

We and the labouring world are passing by: Amid men's souls, that waver and give place Like the pale waters in their wintry race, Under the passing stars, foam of the sky, Lives on this lonely face.
~ William Butler Yeats
Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.
~ William Cullen Bryant
My December is typically one big, sweaty 'wintry mix' blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.
~ Emily Weiss
And we drove towards the widening dawn, that now streaked half the sky with a wintry bouquet of pink of roses, orange of tiger-lilies, as if my husband had ordered me a sky from a florist. The day broke around me like a cool dream.
~ Angela Carter
screwing his eyes up against his own smoke. A shaft of wintry sunlight burst through a break in the clouds and illuminated the
~ Robert Galbraith
Jo gave her sister an encouraging pat on the shoulder as they parted for the day, each going a different way, each hugging her little warm turnover, and each trying to be cheerful in spite of wintry weather, hard work, and the unsatisfied desires of pleasure-loving youth.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red.
~ John Connolly
freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
~ John Geddes
The chains hung flashing in the wintry light, the sea combed gray and tired behind them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls (all our buglers were amateurs—I first learned the Spanish bugle-calls by listening to them outside the Fascist lines), the tramp-tramp of hobnailed boots in the barrack yard, the long morning parades in the wintry sunshine, the wild games of football, fifty a side, in the gravelled riding-school.
~ George Orwell
...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Skis on snow, mountains in white, bracing wintry air, forced deep breathing, gliding into grace — these are nature's ways of healing a skier's heart. Healing it one run at a time
~ Jules Older
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio
~ Bob Dylan
It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
~ Herman Melville
A wayward wind drew a wintry breath across the scene with a sound like a gasp, shivering the grasses.
~ Steven Erikson
His skin, his whole being, radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I, anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. "I love you.
~ Suzanne Collins
Spring can still be felteven if you lay under the bedFrozen heart can meltin coldness when wintry love misled
~ Munia Khan
O' peppermint tea — two delights per sip as steamy hot as passion cool as a wintry lake dip
~ Terri Guillemets
March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong To set right some wintry wrong.
~ Caroline May, 1887
Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It was the schooner Hesperus,That sailed the wintry sea;And the skipper had taken his little daughter,To bear him company.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.
~ Juergen Teller