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
There were others besides Cartoner who were wintering in London who likewise laid aside their newspaper with a sigh half weariness, half relief, to find that their parts of the world were still quiet.
From The Vultures by Henry Seton Merriman
A more serious entry was the item that if you were wintering in England you would be looking out for a hunter or two.
From When William Came by Saki
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
While the boys were wintering at Stewart grub got short, and Harper passed it round, fair and square—not raising the price any.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
