winterly
AmericanEtymology
Origin of winterly
before 1000; Old English winterlīc (not recorded in ME); winter, -ly
Example Sentences
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What is for me, Whose days so winterly go on?
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
Several weeks passed away, and the weather began to grow cold and winterly.
From The Apricot Tree by Unknown
I know his love for his native land, and know that this winterly nature which I dread so much, is precisely his life and his health.
From Strife and Peace by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
At present the country had a cold and winterly aspect.
From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Davies, Ebenezer
Your note, I can scarcely tell why, hurt me, and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.
From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
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