Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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But Chicago's Wilding Picture Productions learned to stop sending baskets of fruit; most of its clients were wintering in Florida, returned home to find a basket of rotting fruit on the back porch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile he went himself to Exeter, where the pagans were wintering, and having shut them up within the walls, laid siege to the town.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
So the Alban legion and the rest who were wintering in that region likewise revolted.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
Since the ice went out someone who knew that the three men were wintering there, had travelled up the Ghost from the Whale, but why?
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
Meanwhile he went himself to Exeter, where the pagans were wintering and, having shut them up within the walls, laid siege to the town.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
