winter quarters

The present one shows a lot more interest in paved streets and granite skyscrapers than in the dry leaves and rocks and underbrush where foxes, wolves and weasels once had winter quarters.

1920, Alvin Howard Sanders, In Winter Quarters, from Dumbiedykes to Town and Back Again, page 114

In winter, evening bats depart for winter quarters and probably hibernate, although Lowery (1974) obtained records of active individuals in Louisiana in every month except February and December.

1983, Rollin Harold Baker, Michigan mammals, page 134

It is usually a month later than this, and sometimes two months later before we put them into winter quarters. Supposing some of our best bee-keepers place a few colonies in winter quarters now and just about the last couple of favorable days before they put the rest into winter quarters, place part of them out on their summer stands and give them a fly, leaving the remainder in, and see how they winter. We are pretty well convinced that we have been in the habit of setting bees into winter quarters too late.

1887, “Our Own Apiary”, in Canadian Bee Journal, volume 3, page 631

Whenever possible, during the fall and winter, the cows with calves by their side and yearlings were cut out of the main herd and placed in winter quarters where they have been fed daily.

1919, Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, page 26

The shorter the stay in their winter quarters which rarely offer optimal conditions – the less the plants will be weakened.

1992, Halina Heitz, Container Plants: For Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes, page 25

On the 8th we changed our camp again into the woods near Brandy Station and Mountain Run, where we expected to go into winter quarters.

1904, Thomas M. Aldrich, The History of Battery A: First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 270

The regiment made camp at Tennallytown, and in October was ordered to Langley, Virginia, where it went into winter quarters.

1922, George Thornton Fleming, History of Pittsburgh and Environs, page 240

Moving northwest into present Mississippi, the explorer set up winter quarters.

1968, Explorers and Settlers: Historic Places Commemorating the Early Exploration and Settlement of the United States, page 18

While searching for winter quarters, a group of gypsies celebrates the birth of a new chief and discovers why a former chief disappeared.

1982, William Mayne, Winter Quarters

Bridgeport, Connecticut, winter quarters of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, became its second home.

2014, Jan Young, Roadside Tidbits, page 35

But the attempt which has often been made to prove that summer is as favourable a season as winter, and that invalids are extremely foolish to leave their winter quarters at the approach of spring, seems to us most injudicious.

1895 March 23, “The Invalid's Spring Programme”, in The Lancet, volume 1, number 3734, page 759

Finally, and of greatest importance, are those groups of population which live a nomadic life and move from their winter quarters to summer quarters and back again regularly each year.

1957, World Health Organization, Report, page 27

But since this project, to which my attention was called by that now universal source of information, advertisements, has been alluded to, do you mind telling me why you called our delightful sojourn in a Tuscan villa overlooking Florence my winter-quarters rather than the Poet's winter-quarters, or Veronica's, or, for that matter, even yours?

2016, Alfred Austin, Jacson Keating, Lamia's Winter-Quarters (Alfred Austin)