Example Sentences

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Such temerity amazed the winterer beyond coherent expression.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

So "old" Hugh Glass was a leather-faced, leather-clad, whiskered veteran of probably not over forty years but of the right experience as a "hivernan" or "winterer."

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

"You don't say they're sending another lot of men to the Athabasca!" exclaimed the winterer.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

"What were you saying about your hard luck?" and he turned to the northern winterer again.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

The elder Stuart was a rollicking winterer from The Labrador, with the hail-fellow-well-met-air of an equal among the mercurial French-Canadians.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.