Meaning of winterwards | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C1]

Examples

“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'?”

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