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One of the Picchiannis landed expertly in a chair after a triple somer sault from a teeterboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fine; thus they are spared much waste and madness; but what is left, in somer?
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
With the cessation of lactation the female reenters somer and becomes once more a perfect androgyne.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"In somer when the shawes be sheyn And leves be large and long, Hit is full merry in feyre foreste To here the foulys song."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
