winterwards

comparative more winterwards · superlative most winterwards

1. alternativeAlternative form of winterward.

   Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.

   1957, David Harbord Bone, The Bees of Swanland: a poem, page 17

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   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.

   1870 October 22, “Out of Doors”, in All the Year Round, number 99, page 487

   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.

   1882, Mrs. Stanley Clarke, From the Deck of a Yacht, page 129

   Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?

   2007, John North, Stonehenge, page 530

comparative more winterwards · superlative most winterwards

1. alternativeAlternative form of winterward.

   The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.

   2014, Elizabeth Moon, Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles

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   That first tree in the garden must be climbed / and a new landscape from its branches limbed, / a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage / for I am now the spring, I am now my age.

   1961, Outposts, numbers 47-55, page 7

   Till to-day all had been grey and brown, all still pointed backward, winterwards; but this morning it was different, and the million sprouting lives shouted, “Look forward, look forward!

   2019, E. F. Benson, The Challoners