These alternate with long climatic periods made up of the short winters and the other changing seasons such as we know.
A century of winters had contributed snows to its pile.
Two winters of snowshoeing through the Rocky Mountains as Snow Observer often brought me in contact with wild game.
The Western evening grosbeak, a bird with attractive plumage and pleasing manners, often winters here.
The winters are sunny, but little snow falls, and the winds are occasionally warm and usually extremely dry.
Extremely unfavorable winters in British Columbia will cause many birds that regularly winter in that country to travel one or two thousand miles southward into the mountains of Colorado.
During droughty winters these dry winds absorb the vital juices of hundreds of timber-line trees, whose withered standing skeletons frequently testify to the widespread depredations of this dry blight.
Persecution cannot bow the head, which seventy winters could not blanch, nor the terrors of excommunication chill the heart, in which age could not freeze the kindly flow of warm philanthropy.
His mind fails; he sits in the chimney corner driveling about the horrible winters they used to have when you could curse a daughter out almost any day in the week.
He's good in winters when you're holed up here in the snow and get on edge with nothing to do for five or six months but feed the stock and keep a water hole open.
Gradually, during the time these formations were being laid down, the winters of this region were becoming more and more severe.
Long and severe winters are typical of this region.
During the winters in the 1870's, messages, supplies, and mail were carried by pack horse and dog sled.
The reserves that have been established are also sanctuaries for bird and animal life, upon which recent drought and severe winters have had a disastrous effect.
The climate is well suited to this industry, for the coldwinters produce heavy and valuable furs.
A Finlander with whom I parleyed told me his country could show ruder places than these isles, and that the winters there were longer and colder.
They passed their winters in a round of reckless dissipation, or until the arrival of the fishing season set half the town afloat again.
Parson Tucke used to say the winters at the Shoals were "a thin under-waistcoat, warmer" than on the opposite main-land.
But they had with them three lads of fifteen winters or thereabouts to lead their horses back home again, when they should have gone up on to the Horse of the Brine.
The winters of western New York are frequently quite severe.
The dear old one," said her son, "bears the snows of many winters on her head.
The snows of too many winters are on my head to go on journeys now," she said, in a feeble, quavering voice.
The winters are exceedingly mild, snow being unknown on the plains, and rare on the mountains, except at a considerable elevation.
It is in severe winters that the chief danger occurs; they then suffer from hunger and cold, and are driven to the neighbourhood of the enclosures to steal.
It was not so much the want of food as the inability to endure exposure that caused their death; a few winters are related to have so reduced them that they died by hundreds, many mangled by dogs.
Then, after the conquered man was dead, had come interminable lawsuits, lawsuits lasting fifteen years, which gave the winters time to devour the building.
They say some winters here are so mild that one hardly needs an overcoat at all; it must be remembered that though the elevation is high the latitude is low.
On account of the severity of the winters about Amargo, the Government moved these Indians, during the autumn of 1883, to Fort Stanton, reuniting them there with the Mescaleros, on the reservation of the latter.
Thou wast more kind unto the wand'ring Greek Who did ten years his wife and country seek: Ten lazy winters in my glass are run, Yet my thought's travail seems but new begun.
When th' other barbarous and hectic fit, In nineteen winters did not intermit.
He spent his winters in diligently instructing his class, and in summer was often found at Peterhead, a town situated on the most easterly promontory of Scotland, and which was then noted for its medicinal waters.
That should have been my heir: When he was twenty winters old, In field would joust full fair.
A hundred winters herebefore, My ancestors Knights have be But oft it hath befallen, ROBIN!
In his own city he lodged awhile in poor quarters, and then went forth to play his harp; and meeting his steward, who knew the harp but not his master, told him he had found the harp ten winters ago, by the side of a man eaten by lions.
Azerbijan, the summers being hotter, and the winters shorter and much less cold.
Like a red star many winters Blazed their lodge-fire on the sea-shore.
Not alone the storms of winters Seamed her tawny face with wrinkles.
Through his beard and shaggy locks Soft breezes sung and tempests roared: the rain A thousand summers trickled down his beard; A thousand winters whitened on his head; Yet spake he not.
Sad at heart was Sea-Gull waiting, Watching, waiting in the wigwam; Not alone the storms of winters Sifted frost upon her tresses.
Three wintersin succession the grizzly climbed to a den in an exposed spot on the northern slope of Mount Meeker.
During my first years in the Rockies, the winters were severe, with heavy snows, and the summers unusually rainy.
The winters in the uplands are generally severe, and the rainfall heavy.
In some winters the latter is sufficiently firm and level to admit of sledges passing between Copenhagen and Malmö.
It should not be so if I were a few winters younger.
Bulgaria's conqueror, I ween, Had scarcely fifteen winters seen, When from his murdered brother's side His unhelmed head he had to hide.
Thereafter Earl Sigvalde emptied a remembrance bowl to his father's honour, and made the solemn vow, that before three winterscame to an end he would go to Norway, and either kill Earl Hakon, or chase him out of the country.
Then Eirik the Good, Svein's fourth son, for eight winters (A.
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