35 examples of winter-time in sentences

If they bloomed on with the same crimson flaunt of color, though the rockers beneath them had grown warped and the body of the chair creaked and groaned every time one ventured to sit in it, why should she not ignore the stiffness which the years seemed to bring to her joints, the complaints which her body threatened every now and again to utter, and fare on herself, a hardy perennial bravely facing life's winter-time?

WINTER-TIME Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again.

Macdonald Wind in a Frolic, The William Howitt Wind, The Robert Louis Stevenson Winter William Shakespeare Winter-Time Robert Louis Stevenson Wishing William Allingham Wonderful World, The William B. Rands World's Music, The Gabriel Setoun * * * *

In winter-time, when fresh apricots are not obtainable, a little jam may be substituted for them.

I cried, heart-stricken, on Proserpina; I rent the rocks around with endless prayers; I told her all the story of our love, I launch'd my sorrows on her woman's heart; I sought her through the barren winter-time, The woful winter-time for Earth and me;

I cried, heart-stricken, on Proserpina; I rent the rocks around with endless prayers; I told her all the story of our love, I launch'd my sorrows on her woman's heart; I sought her through the barren winter-time, The woful winter-time for Earth and me;

The whole mansion now lived afresh, more luxurious than ever, filled at winter-time with sounds of festivity, enlivened by the laughter of four happy children, and the blaze of a living fortune which effort and conquest ever renewed.

The left bank is low and sandy, liable to flood; a haunt of lizards in the summer, of frogs in winter-time.

And when you call them they come shamefaced; though in winter-time, when running the same fox to death, they pay no more heed to your call than to the crows clamoring over them.

Moreover it was winter-time and the passes were deep in snow.

The Arabian prophet, ere he passed on, bade the pilgrims warn Friar Dolcino how he suffered himself to be surprised in his mountain-hold by the starvations of winter-time, if he did not wish speedily to follow him.

I have never been there in Winter-time, but know that a great many runners speak well of Lenzerheide.

In winter-time Snow-White set light to the fire, and put on the kettle, after polishing it until it was like gold for brightness.

In winter-time, when the earth is frozen hard, they must remain underground, and cannot make their way through: but now that the sunshine has thawed the earth they can come to the surface, and whatever gets into their hands, or is brought to their caves, seldom, if ever, again sees daylight.

Once, in the winter-time, when the river was frozen as hard as a stone, and hill and valley were covered with snow, the woman made a cloak of paper, and called the maiden to her and said, "Put on this cloak, and go away into the wood to fetch me a little basketful of strawberries, for I have a wish for some.

They asked, "What do you here in the forest, in the winter-time, in this thin cloak?" "Ah!"

I could not persuade myself that I liked the sound of bells, and the greyness of the country in winter-time still revolted me, as though I had not yet forgotten the cheerful reds and greens and blues of the picture-books that filled my mind as a child with dreams of a delightful world.

It was a beautiful, clear, starlight night, but very cold, for it was winter-time.

A doleful instrument it must beloud wailing sound in winter-time, and in the summer a little sigh.

They disliked intensely having to get up at such an hour, especially in winter-time: and they thought that if it were not for the cock waking up their Mistress so horribly early, they could sleep longer.

All went well for a while, until one day in winter-time the Satyr saw the Man blowing on his hands.

The master of the house always had his great arm-chair with a head, and curtains to keep off the draughts, which were many and bitterly cold in winter-time.

In winter-time, all in a row, The happy skaters come and go.

If it was winter-time, however, all the wild meat was very lean and poor eating, unless by chance a bear was found in a hollow tree, when there was a royal feast, the breast of the wild turkey serving as a substitute for bread.

Silvestro lives at hand; he hears the rattle of the hail that burns the grapes up to a cinderthe terrible din of the thunder before the forked lightning strikes the cattle; he sees with his own eyes the griping want of bread in the savage winter-time; his own eyes behold the little lambs, dead of hunger, lying by the road-side.

35 examples of  winter-time  in sentences