Both had been out skating on the lake the winter before, when Harry had lost his skate and gone down headlong directly in the track of a large ice-boat, which was coming on with the speed of a breeze that was almost a hurricane.
This ended the rivalry for the time being between Lakeview and Rockpoint and, as a consequence, the autumn and winter which followed were comparatively quiet.
In winter the snow covers the ground to a great depth, as we can tell by the trees.
The country, as you approach "the Causeway," has an aspect of dreary desolation that only needs the leaden sky and the drifting storm of winter to make it the most melancholy of all landscapes.
Winter bark adheres closely, and forcibly brings up part of the inner bark, which on exposure turns dark red.
Shows how to describe arc of circle for bow, also ornamentation of winter bark.
If winter bark has been used, the surface is moistened and the roughness scraped off with a knife.
Why, even my uncle reads Gwillym sometimes of a winter night--Not know the figures of heraldry!
He knows, also, that the characters in the winter novel must be adequately protected.
Love itself could scarcely be expected to survive a winter hat worn after Easter.
The winter novel, by this invention, could be easily fitted for summer wear.
But wellnigh perished with hunger and cold, The poor little Indian baby lay, Till the dawn of the fourth drear winter day.
A hopeless fight from morn till night; The winter darkness veiled the sight Of desperate mothers with babes on backs, Wounded and dying in their tracks; Of a little band with axe and knife, Facing bullets in savage strife.
Starting from Washington Square, Salem, go throughWinter Street to Bridge Street, and follow this across the bridge to Beverly.
And women and men rushed madly on To strive till the winter day was gone.
They stuck out just as they had before winter came--only more so.
He liked the winter and he was forever tearing about the woods, squalling and scolding at everybody.
During the Russian-Japanese war these were too slow so they laid down heavy steel rails on the ice and all winter long trains were speeded across on this ice railway.
The grass is green the year around and stock does not have to be housed and fed in winter as in our country.
The summer in Paraguay lasts from October to March and the winter from April to September, July and August being the coldest months.
In the beginning of winter when the skating season opens, the young men and maidens have a great time going to the city of Gouda.
The old Palace is there but the great Hall of Mirrors where the treaty was finally signed could not be comfortably heated in the winter time.
In our country, too, the chemical changes of winter help prepare the soil for the coming crops, but in Brazil there is no winter season when the land "sleeps" and it does not seem to be necessary.
Every possible subterfuge was resorted to to conceal cases of the plague and bodies were often hidden in the snow all winter long.
In summer they sweltered and in winter they nearly froze to death.
This is a land where the storms of winternever blow but where from month to month and age to age there is good old summer time.
In the heat of summer the dust nearly suffocated them and in the late autumn and early spring (they stopped in winter quarters in the coldest months), they often floundered along through mud nearly knee deep.
Roads are good so that the former can be practiced the year around, while the latter, of course, can only be indulged in during the winter time.
As the winters are long and cold, great ice-breakers were built to take the trains across during the winter time.
I never heard the Death-Watch before in winter time--I heard it all last night.
After waiting until the short winterdaylight was at an end, the footman ventured to knock, and ask if the master wanted lights.
Can you not hear the cuckoo call, even though the lamps may be lit and the winter wind be shrill without?
One winter day when the snow lay on the ground he drove out in his coach.
And as he followed his trade year in year out, from summer to winter, from winter to summer, he learned all the secrets of the earth and sky, of the hedgerow and the field.
Houses were badly lighted, and there was little to do indoors in the longwinter evenings, so the men gathered together and listened while one among them told of love and battle.
Winter is come, that blows the baleful breath, And after Wintercometh timely death.
After some hesitation, Coleridge consented, and that winter he set off for a visit to Germany with the Wordsworths.
Then all the schooling the Burns children had was from their father in the long winter evenings after the farm work for the day was over.
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
The poem ends with two books called The Winter Morning Walk and The Winter Walk at Noon.
In winter when he was too lazy to skate or slide himself they pulled him about on the ice by a garter tied round his waist.
After spending a brilliant winter in Edinburgh, Burns set off on several tours through his native land, visiting many of the places famous in Scottish history.
But at length, with many adventures, the wintercame to an end.
The Greeks and Romans usually wore their neck free and uncovered, although in winter they sometimes wrapped a comforter round their throats, which they called a focalium, from fauces.
The winter passed, and spring came, and still Baree continued to haunt his old trails, even going now and then over the old trap line as far as the first of the two cabins.
His work done, McTaggart hurried on through the thickening twilight of winter night to his shack.
Three times that winter Baree fought--once with a lynx that sprang down upon him from a windfall while he was eating a freshly killed rabbit, and twice with two lone wolves.
It was the Red Moon, and both thrilled with the anticipation and excitement of the winter hunt.
After the long sleep of winternature was at work in all her glory.
There were snowshoes to be rewebbed with new babiche; there was wood to be cut in readiness for the winter storms.
To the flesh-eating wild things of the forests, clawed and winged, the Big Snow was the beginning of the winter carnival of slaughter and feasting, of wild adventure in the long nights, of merciless warfare on the frozen trails.
They saw each other daily, and it was on one of these occasions that he made the humourous sketch of Latour, depicting him on a cold winter morning seated in bed, drawing, all dressed, with a top hat on his head.
Winter does not change us, but when it comes you fall.
One winterthe weather was very cold, and many of them died.
Our land is in such good condition now that we might as well sow winter wheat," said the oldest son.
There is a brief summer, and then a long winter of calm grey days which numb the soul into acquiescence, or stab the dull tranquillity with the lightnings of tragedy and woe.
In winter the piled logs glowed upon the hearth and the bitter winds from the Marshes, sang like a flight of arrows round the house.
Five or six years later, during the winter of 1899, the Doctor met him in one of the rooms of the White House.
Fearing that it would be difficult to secure rooms in Paris during the Exposition, the Doctor had written from Washington during the winter and engaged them at the hotel which a few years before had been one of the best in Paris.
He grew buoyant, breezy, fanciful in the brisk winter air.
Washington was always a beautiful city to me, the climate in winter is delightful.
When winter had shed his garland of snow over nature, or when we were knee deep in summer's verdure and flowers, East Hampton was the Doctor's headquarters.
As the winter grew into long, gray days, we were already planning a trip to Europe for the following year of 1900, and we were anticipating this event with eager expectancy as the time grew near.
In the winter months of this year I enjoyed another lecturing tour with him through Canada and the West.
Necessarily, the dishonest transactions of the bosses led to discontent among the labouring classes, and a railroad strike came, and went, in the winter of 1886.
If the third winter of this did not bring his obituary, it would be because that man was proof against that which had slain a host larger than any other that fell on any battle-field of the ages.
Cavalier exiles like Waller, Cowley and Hobbes had come back from the winter of their discontent in Paris, and Saint-Evremond, the typical bel esprit and critic, settled long in England.
And then the summer was all over and it was beginning to get cold; so the wheat stopped growing and stayed just as high as that all winter and the snow covered it.
Those two kegs of cider lasted for a while and then more apples were ripe and they made enough cider to last all winter and some to send to market besides.
After the winter was over and it was getting warm, the ground melted out and got soft.
In winter the hens all sleep on the roosts in the hen-house, because it is warmer there; but in the summer they like to get up in the trees and sleep out-of-doors.
And the rest of the meal was put away in the store-room until they wanted it; for they had enough to last them all winterand some to take to market besides.
One day, when the winter was almost over and it was beginning to get warmer, Uncle John got out the old oxen.
Illustration] Then, when it began to get warm, after the winter was over, the man got out the old oxen.
They were all ready to set into the ground, but the ground was frozen hard, and they couldn't be set until the winter was over and the ground was soft.
And when the winter was over and it began to get warm, the snow melted away and the wheat began to grow again; and it got taller and taller until it was as tall as Uncle John's waist.
Not far from the house there was a field where corn grew; and when the winter was over and the snow was gone and it was beginning to get warm, Uncle John got the old oxen out of the barn.
So in the winterwhen the snow was on the ground, he went out and cut down the trees with his axe.
In winter the cows had hay, but in summer they didn't have hay, because they could eat the grass, and that was better.
Nor was your grandfather satisfied to trust to the imperfect shelter the tents afforded, but persevered in journeying on to the hut built for the winter crew, and which he knew was at no great distance from thence.
One great privation in this winter travelling is the want of water.
Their voyaging is vanity, And fairy gold is all their gain, And all the winds of winter cry, "My Love returns no more again!
Winter is passing, and the bells For ever with their silver lay Murmur a melody that tells Of April and of Easter day.
The winter is upon us, not the snow, The hills are etched on the horizon bare, The skies are iron grey, a bitter air, The meagre cloudlets shudder to and fro.
An advertisement in the winterof 1881 read: "We will give to a Cotton Manufacturing Company, that will organize and locate at Landsford, S.
By the late fall and winter of 1880 the mind of the South was ripe for progress and accomplishment.
It was four o'clock of a cold andwinter morning before the lights were fled, the garlands dead, and the banquet-halls deserted.
The sun, whenever that luminary condescended to show its face in Speckport, which wasn't so very often, never found him in bed, eitherwinter or summer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "winter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
