42 Metaphors for winters

The winter in the mountains is perhaps the most exhilarating, as plenty of winter sport goes on.

In June and July they begin to blink and thaw out like sleepy eyes, the carices thrust up their short brown spikes, the daisies bloom in turn, and the most profoundly buried of them all is at length warmed and summered as if winter were only a dream.

Winter is no such solid bar between season and season as we fancy, but only a slight check and interruption: one may at any time produce these March blossoms by bringing the buds into the warm house; and the petals of the May-flower sometimes show their pink and white edges in autumn.

The whole winter is a radiant and joyous band of sunny days and starlight nights.

Winter is the season of trial for the Sioux, especially for the women and children.

That very winter after Baldy was the only man to git back.

A Siberian winter would perhaps be tenderer than the May sun of the Philippines.

Our first great function that winter was the service at the Madeleine for the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel, who died suddenly in the beginning of January, 1878.

Cold Winter is comingthere breathes not a flower, Though sometimes the day may pass fair!

Cold Winter is comingtake care of your toes Gay Zephyr has folded his fan; His lances are couch'd in the ice-wind that blows, So mail up as warm as you can.

In the very days of their greatest scarcity that winter, when almost every man was dressed in skins, and the daily fare was thistle roots, he declared to them at a Sunday service: "A time of plenty is at handof great plenty.

Winter is winter everywhere, and even the sun of Italy cannot always scorch his icy wings.

Winter with its snow and sleet was now the silent but none the less potent ally of the French and Indians in preventing their escape.

" William Winter soon became a great personal friend of ours, and visited us in England.

Winter is a shadow.

The winter was mild and charming, very little snow, and only frost enough to purify the atmosphere.

But winter's is no such idle lesson.

"The winter of the deep snow" is the date which is the starting point in all calculations of time for the early settlers of Illinois, and the circumstance from which the old settlers of Sangamon County receive the name by which they are generally known, "Snowbirds."]

Hard winters are becoming the order of things.

That winter the poor were very near starvation in the cities of Italy, and the peasants had to cut down their olive groves for fuel.

"I think winter is the nicest time of the whole year.

A winter such as rounds his days is fuller of life and promise than a century of vulgar summers.

Winter is to me (mild or harsh) always a great trial of the spirits.

One last winter was a photograph."

Cold Winter is comingall stript are the groves, The passage-bird hastens away; To the lovely blue South, like the tourist, he roves, And returns like the sunshine in May.

42 Metaphors for  winters