winterly
AmericanEtymology
Origin of winterly
before 1000; Old English winterlīc (not recorded in ME); winter, -ly
Example Sentences
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Time went on—cold winterly days, when we could hardly smell the fire; and as to warming ourselves, we had better have been guilty of high treason.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by Fenn, George Manville
How bitter and winterly waxed last night The air that was mild!
From The Hoyden by Duchess
“One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton.
From Max Carrados by Bramah, Ernest
No: she is not out, for see She sits asleep 'mid frost-work winterly.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
But when Bice first appeared suddenly in his way, far down in the depths of the winterly park, the boy's impulse would have been, had that been practicable, to turn and flee.
From Sir Tom by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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