What does winterwards mean?
Winterwards means Alternative form of winterward..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
Alternative form of winterward..
That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.
At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.
Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.
Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?
That first tree in the garden must be climbed / and a new landscape from its branches limbed, / a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage / for I am now the spring, I am now my age.
The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.
Till to-day all had been grey and brown, all still pointed backward, winterwards; but this morning it was different, and the million sprouting lives shouted, “Look forward, look forward!
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Winterwards means Alternative form of winterward..
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That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.
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