There was not a prettier or more breezy little specimen of humanity in existence than Nan on one of these wintry afternoons, when she had just, come in from an hour's buffeting with wind and weather on the beach.
At the beginning of the service the light had fallen upon it from without, but now the wintry twilight was gathering fast, and the rims of brass in which the discs of glass were set were brilliantly flashing from the glow of the gas-jets.
As she watched them while they slowly approached, looking so gay and handsome and happy, it seemed to Polly as if all the sunshine and good walking was on their side of the street, all the wintry wind and mud on hers.
A wintry dawn on pallid skies, A summer's day that turns to dusk.
If the sign of help he was seeking did not appear before the feeble wintry light had passed then the die was cast.
The dying sun lit her ruddy brown hair with its wintry smile, and the song of the flowing waters caught and lulled her spirit.
A watery sunshine had broken through the heavy clouds which were reluctantly yielding before a bleak wintry wind.
Clinch's grey eyes blazed for a moment, then their menacing glare dulled, died out into wintry fixity.
I would not dine there, I told myself, but there must be an inn in the neighbourhood, where I could obtain some slight Christmas cheer, if I chose to embark upon the rather mild adventure of going up the river on this wintry holiday.
Far away the bay could be seen and the Seal Rock, with the light of a great yellow moon touching its dark outlines and mingling with the blue, wintry twilight.
He went and stood at the window and looked out upon the wintry prospect.
One, whose impetuous youth defied The storms of Baikal's wintry side, And mused and dreamed where tropic day Flamed o'er his lost Virginia's bay.
They waited for that falling leaf Of which the wandering Jogees sing: Which lends once more to wintry age The greenness of its spring.
A wood-fire smoldered with friendly warmth on the brightly burnished andirons, and a clear, wintry sunlight fell in through the curtained windows, where a perfect garden of indoor plants bloomed gaily.
A light, gentle, steady rain pattered against the windows, which chattered like the teeth of an old beggar on a wintry day.
Day broke clear, a faint and wintrysun in the sky.
Sufficient without such guilt is this nightmare of the soul; this heavy, heavy sinking of the spirits; this wintry gloom about the heart; this indistinct horror of the mind, blending itself with the darkness of the chamber.
Seen through the clear portion of the glass, where the silvery mountain-peaks of the frost scenery do not ascend, the most conspicuous object is the steeple, the white spire of which directs you to the wintry lustre of the firmament.
Though every winter's desolating sway Shake the hoarse grove, and sweep the leaves away; Deep in its trunk the legend still will last, Defy the storm, and brave the wintry blast.
She averted her gaze to the window through which the wintry sunlight was pouring.
And the whole countryside was a dripping, melting sea ofwintry slush.
He turned away, and the grey wintry daylight beyond the window seemed to absorb him.
His eyes were on the wintry sky which was still broad with the light of day beyond the window.
The wintry daylight beyond the window claimed him, and Nancy waited.
Standing shook his head at the broad back squared against the grey, wintry sky.
Their small stout legs, twinkling along the pavements in white gaiters on a wintry day, are a pleasant sight.
On Baltimore Avenue the wintry sun shone white and cold; in Clark Park, Charles Dickens wore a little cap of snow, and Little Nell looked more pathetic than ever.
The river below them was golden, and the wintry woodlands bathed in light.
There was a pig-tailed Margaret in bonnet and shawl, trudging to school one wintry day.
She had seen many wintry school-days, but this one stood out by reason of the tears she had shed by the way.
It held a branch of fresh, green holly in its hand, and in singular contradiction of thatwintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers.
No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
A flood ofwintry sunshine suffused the interior of the dugout.
Now the day had arrived for their departure, for the storm had subsided and the sun was shining with all its wintry splendour.
In the red, wintry light, the place looked terribly desolate.
At last darkness gave way to a faint gray light, and then the gray sky showed long slender streaks of wintry red, gradually widening and deepening until all the east seemed flushed.
The Pundi mountain was covered with snow and had a wintry appearance.
At sunrise the whole country lay under a bright wintry shroud of white snow.
For a girl who had almost never been allowed upon the street alone, the wintry night should have been full of terrors, but to Cicely they meant nothing.
Thou, whose power assumes the form, Now, of this wild wintry storm, Let it still in mercy be Shown upon the raging sea!
