172 Verbs to Use for the Word winter

I had not skated for years, having spent all my winters in Italy, but on the principle that you never forget anything that you know

Thus I passed the winter of 1862 and the spring of 1863.

But I hope to stand another English winter.' Lichfield, Sept. 29.

"Yew young folks," she affirmed, herself having seen ninety-nine winters, while Abigail had known but a paltry sixty-five, "yew allers go an' cut yer pity on the skew-gee.

The tender constitution of this tree could not endure our rude winters; and every spring witnessed the decay of a large portion of its small branches.

Uncle John's wife said the last time she was here that she dreaded the winter on your account,there!" "Aunt Katesaid that?" "Yes, she did; I heard her.

The Man Of Grub Street Comes From His Garret I have come to live this winter in New York City and by good fortune I have found rooms on a pleasant park.

Sheer precipices of crystalline snow rise out of deep water on the south, keeping perpetual winter on that side, but there is a fine summery spot on the other, notwithstanding the lake is only about 300 yards wide.

Spring followed winter, summer succeeded to spring, and autumn came to reap the fruits of all the previous seasons, without bringing any further tidings from the adventurers.

" "Ah! that was real wisdom, for if we make up our minds to stay the winter, a sheltered position may make a great difference in our comfort," she said quickly, then stretched out her hand for the glass to have another look.

A fever had broken out in her beloved village, the vines had done badly, there was sickness among the cattle, there was already beginning to be suffering, and if something were not done for the people they would not know how to face the winter.

For the swallow follows not summer more willingly than men of these dispositions follow the good fortunes of the great, nor more willingly leaves winter than these shrink from the first appearance of a reverse; such summer-birds are men.

The summer, if it be kindly, will, I hope, enable me to support the winter.

Behind each man braving the Arctic winter up here, is some hope, not all ignoble; some devotion, not all unsanctified.

They did not even light a fire, for the room was always filled with a flood of sunshine, in which the flies that had survived the winter flew about lazily.

The chance for which I solicited him was that of going out to work the ensuing winter.

Accordingly they are represented as infecting the Stars and Planets with malignant Influences, weakning the Light of the Sun, bringing down the Winter into the milder Regions of Nature, planting Winds and Storms in several Quarters of the Sky, storing the Clouds with Thunder, and in short, perverting the Whole Frame of the Universe to the Condition of its criminal Inhabitants.

de Maupin, that godhead of flowing line, that desire not "of the moth for the star," but for such perfection of hanging arm and leaned thigh as leaves passion breathless and fain of tears, is now, if I take up the book and read, weary and ragged as a spider's web, that has hung the winter through in the dusty, forgotten corner of a forgotten room.

Mahmud, having ordered great fires to be kindled around his tents, they became so warm that many of the courtiers began to take off their upper garments; when a facetious chief, whose name was Dalk, came in shivering with the cold, at which the King, observing, said: "Go out, Dalk, and tell the Winter that he may burst his cheeks with blustering, for here we value not his resentment."

" Way back in the "eighties" when I'm just a kid, I crossed up with a breed gal I'd met One winter at Circle; she cleaned me that year And skipped out with all she could get.

It would be very lonely at Midbranch, he wrote, without Robertathough why it should be more so this year, than during preceding winters, he did not explainand he felt a desire to see the changes that had taken place in the metropolis since he had visited it, years ago.

His wardrobe was remarkably inexpensive, consisting of little more than a single plain suit, brown or gray, which he wore winter and summer, until it became threadbare.

"Away from this spot all the navies of the 'arth could not now carry us, until God's sun comes back in his course, to drive the winter away afore it.

Perhaps he knew that he alone remained alive; that the secret was his; that he had but to wait the winter out, to sit through the spring thaw, and then go back to claim his own.

She said, 'Oh,' in a tone which plainly said, 'Is that all?' "Only a few winters since, during a very mild winter, a young lad who was driving a team called out to me on the street, and said he had a question to ask me.

172 Verbs to Use for the Word  winter