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The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the tim...

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The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with someth...

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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads saf...

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Idris had been green and gold and russet in the autumn, when Clary had first been there. It had a st...

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Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry o...

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I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,...

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Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour ...

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Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...

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I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means ...

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A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A f...

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I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's t...

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Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could d...

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You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the ...

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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winte...

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Initially the snow had been beautiful, but not so much now. The softness and sparkle still charmed, ...

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They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and...

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It seemed my wholelife was composed of these disjointedfractions of time, hanging around in onepubli...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any ...

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E. B. WhiteEssays of E.B. White

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...

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But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall strai...

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The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...

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Edith WhartonThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...

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The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, a...

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The way ran zigzag through a forest of pine which the bitter wind, still that morning, had turned to...

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Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slopAnd how the wind doth ramm!Sin...

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The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leav...

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It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions.

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passio...

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I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat a...

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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growin...

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The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons w...

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Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long d...

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After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because ...

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George OrwellSome Thoughts on the Common Toad

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...

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Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, shar...

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Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up...

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Nothing burns like the cold.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is ...

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Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I a...

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It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...

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There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of...

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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises ab...

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold a...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Щом зима се озъби паки камък пука в леден мрак,замръзва вир, замръзва лес —не тръгвай в Пущинака дне...

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Buds in the snow—the deadly fightbetween two birds

In winter night Massachusetts Street is dismal, the ground's frozen cold, the ruts and pock holes ha...

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He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...

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There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmospher...

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Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mo...

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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist...

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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...

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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sen...

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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost...

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But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

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In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the w...

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, ...

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I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moo...

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The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...

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The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft...

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No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or...

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There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in fro...

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Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How...

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She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were go...

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I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remembe...

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You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the st...

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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and ...

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Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed...

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At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and pe...

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Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only...

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Mary OliverUpstream: Selected Essays

It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of thin...

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The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning a...

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A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight...

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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and th...

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Neil GaimanOdd and the Frost Giants

The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distan...

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I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 196...

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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and upon the branches...

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Oscar WildeThe Star-Child and Other Tales

If Winter comes can Spring be far behind?

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and ...

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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...seal...

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Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow betwe...

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I like, 'I Believe In Father Christmas' - that is one of my favorites it is a lovely composition; 'C...

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I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some ...

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Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man