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  1. adj. Superlative form of wintry.

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

    The Old Silent

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

    My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

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

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

  • “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.

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

    Brooks by the Traveller's Way

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

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