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  • adjective superlative form of wintry: most wintry.

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Examples

  • No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.

    The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973

  • And the recollections of God's goodness always make summer even in the wintriest day.

    My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

  • No orchard’s the worse for the wintriest storm; 15

    Good-by and Keep Cold. (From Harper's Magazine, July 1920.) 1920

  • His rugged frame, accustomed to all weathers, hardened by years of sleeping beside wide-opened windows in the wintriest of seasons, was always healthily glowing with warmth when others were frankly freezing.

    Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular 1912

  • In my boyhood days I may have put in rather a heavy sowing of wild oats '' -- the general laughed; Mildred conjured up the wintriest and faintest of echoing smiles -- ` ` but that's all past, '' he went on, ` ` and there's nothing that could rise up to interfere with our happiness.

    The Price She Paid. 1911

  • Incessant self-regard imprisons a life in the wintriest impoverishment.

    Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902

  • In my boyhood days I may have put in rather a heavy sowing of wild oats "-- the general laughed; Mildred conjured up the wintriest and faintest of echoing smiles --" but that's all past, "he went on," and there's nothing that could rise up to interfere with our happiness.

    The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Aminta confessed to an admiration of masculine physical beauty; the picador, matador, of the Spanish ring called up an undisguised glow that English ladies show coldly when they condescend to let it be seen; as it were, a line or two of colour on the wintriest of skies.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • Spanish ring called up an undisguised glow that English ladies show coldly when they condescend to let it be seen; as it were, a line or two of colour on the wintriest of skies.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Gopnik, a long-time New Yorker writer who grew up in one of the wintriest cities in the world, Montreal, begins his tour of the season with a tantalizing lecture on Romantic Winter.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed REVIEWED BY CHARLES WILKINS 2011

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