winterwards

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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