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  • Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall.

    On The Wolf Hunt Countdown 2009

  • Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall.

    On The Wolf Hunt Countdown 2009

  • The plovers were crying over the freshly-turned ploughed fields, a whole world of wild birds and insects seemed to have imparted a sense of movement and life to what only a few days ago had been a land of desolation, a country silent and winterbound.

    The Betrayal 1906

  • As he passed along the street he kept close to the house fronts to avoid the sun that was everywhere stirring the winterbound town, like a suffusion of young blood through old veins.

    The Masquerader Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

  • I know to you winterbound folks up Minnesota and Canada way that's a pretty babyish thing to whine about, but I'm sick of the rain.

    The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2008

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