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    wintry


    1. In Great Malvern near the town square just a ways down College road stood the snow laced gothic spires and frosted wintry windows of Malvern College Main Building


    2. On this awful wintry day


    3. A pale and wintry sky with distant wisps of clouds


    4. The wind blew bitter on his face as he rode west, but it was nothing the Nord had not been used to in all of his years in the wintry province


    5. only imagine who it could be - so many of those she knew back home in Cyrodiil had been shipped off to fight in the wintry hinterland to the north


    6. asleep, in the wintry air, that no one could ever waken her again


    7. In the wintry dusk the doctor came stamping in, shaking the snow from


    8. On A Chilly Wintry Afternoon


    9. Ralph opens his eyes onto the wintry depths of what used to be his bedroom


    10. When this was done, Jemelda scattered the fire-oil across the wintry ground, all the while praying the ancient song of burning, the song the villagers used to chant on the bitterest night-seasons:

    11. He swept the mind-cane in a perfect arc in front of him and the resulting swift flames gave him a respite he could tumble through, back into the harshness of the rough flooring and the reality of the wintry air


    12. I opened the nearest window, and the wintry sunlight made a rainbow in the mist


    13. I stared out of the windscreen at the greys and browns of the wintry English countryside blurring past


    14. The burning hunger of the steppes and the wintry forests glared out of his eyes, but he shook his head and swung off the stallion, placing the reins in her hands


    15. They sat in silence, listening to the steady rhythm of the Alliford Bay's engines, the gentle hiss of the rain on the deck, feeling the cold of the wintry air on their faces, and all the time watching the gillnetter in the distance


    16. The cold wintry air smacked his face and instinctively, his eyes tightened


    17. And colder blows the wintry air!


    18. In February 2004, our writers’ group was fortunate to spend a wintry day at the Power Project in Niagara Falls, talking about and selling what we had written


    19. were small and could regulate their body temperature, because the impact dust cloud is believed to have resulted in wintry conditions that would have caused widespread hypothermia, disease and starvation


    20. On the other hand, during wintry nights, a similar lean-to (but silver side inwards) with room enough to sit under, makes a cosy, heat-reflecting shelter in front of the campfire

    21. The wintry nip in the air sets me to shivering


    22. I know not how many wintry nights I have spent in the search,


    23. Aesa breathed in the wintry blast before the spell sparked away


    24. was cold, but not wintry or below a freezing temperature


    25. kind of friendly light on the wintry world as a morose Anne stood in her best dress at the front of


    26. Perhaps it was the wintry weather that made weekend day-tripping a gluey disappointment; maybe the strangely non-cyclic workload at the Centre which had crept up a month ago, and stayed there; whatever the reason, Lester felt a genuine shock that late November afternoon in the Cafeteria


    27. month of March claimed the wintry landscape


    28. In a wintry voice little above a whisper, the Redeemer said, ‘I


    29. So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the violently drowned by night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun


    30. The shadows of the wintry afternoon were beginning to fall, and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets

    31. Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky


    32. She would very gladly have gone out to enjoy the bright wintry weather, but discovering that Laurie was dropping with sleep in spite of manful efforts to conceal the fact, she persuaded him to rest on the sofa, while she wrote a note to her mother


    33. The Phoenicians, its first discoverers, the Romans, the first imperial rulers of that sea, had experienced days like this, so different in the wintry quality of the light, even on a July afternoon, from anything they had ever known in their native Mediterranean


    34. Just as he was, so it seemed the vigorous, wintry stars were strong also with life


    35. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened


    36. Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber; or it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness


    37. The weather was bitterly cold, the sun was concealed by the dreary expanse of grey cloud that covered the wintry sky


    38. His stick struck the ground less emphatically and his breath, issuing irregularly, almost with a sighing sound, condensed in the wintry air


    39. The old wintry branches of chandeliers in the room where the mouldering table was spread had been lighted while we were out, and Miss Havisham was in her chair and waiting for me


    40. The money he earned seemed to melt away almost as soon as he received it; to his surprise he found that he was not nearly so well off in regard to personal comfort as he had been formerly, and the house seemed to grow more dreary and desolate as the wintry days dragged slowly by

    41. A wintry wind swept across the cathedral green


    42. Perched on the ridge, the house caught every wintry blast that blew down from the Arctic and into the city


    43. The weather on the Langer See turned positively wintry in early August


    44. wintry sun shone with little warmth as they walked into the forest


    45. “That could be bad,” Ahrnahld acknowledged with a wintry smile of his own


    46. And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies


    47. The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart


    48. She saw too that the old aloof face of Ashley, the coming back from a long journey, that it was winter and the fields were bare and harsh one she knew so well, had come back and it was wintry too, and harsh with hurt and


    49. ” “Yes,” and he smiled again, the smile more wintry than before


    50. and shadow shows with a tired calmness that had more finality in its timbre than any Why—why—it had been Ashley in the wintry, windswept orchard at Tara, talking of life desperate bitterness could have revealed

























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    Synonyms for "wintry"

    wintery wintry frigid frosty frozen glacial icy cold freezing polar

    "wintry" definitions

    characteristic of or occurring in winter


    devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain