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
I am sunk winterly below prose and zero.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
If Janiveer calends be summerly gay 'Twill be winterly weather till calends of May.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas
From the foot of the ruin the valley sinks abruptly down toward the northwest, where it has quite a winterly aspect.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
Some one, a man, is already there, leaning pensively on the railings that surround it, with his eyes fixed on the dark and winterly earth, and on the newly-planted, flagging flowers.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
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