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«External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.»

Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: bitterer, blew, chill, cold weather, entreaty, for all intents and purposes, pelt, pelting, pelts, scrooge, to all intents and purposes, warmth, wintry

«You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.»

Author: Ernest Hemingway | Keywords: against the wind, bare, bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, branches, cold, died, died young, dies, each year, expected, fell, flow, freezes, freezing, frozen, kept, killed, rains, river, spring, The Fall, The River, The Wind, tree branch, wintry, young person

«It was the schooner Hesperus, / That sailed the wintry sea; / And the skipper had taken his little daughter, / To bear him company.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: Hesperus, sailed, schooner, skipper, wintry

«At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.»

Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: anchor, cased, freezing, glide, glided, glides, Northern, polished, spray, wintry

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