wintrier

The winters are decidedly wintrier and, though cliché, the hospitality is lacking.

Archive 2008-08-20 Book Nerd 2008

The winters are decidedly wintrier and, though cliché, the hospitality is lacking.

Guest Post: Sarah Sweeney and Best of the Web 2008 Book Nerd 2008

Tomorrow I head off to wintrier-than-thou Southern Parts and will probably only have internet access via a dial-up connection on a primeval, virus-laden computer which runs entirely on Microsoft products.

Archive 2006-06-01 StyleyGeek 2006

If it was winter in Funchal it was no wintrier than early autumn would have been in one of those Italian towns of other days; it had the same temperament, the same little tree-planted spaces, the same devious, cobble-paved streets, the same pleasant stucco houses; the churches had bells of like tone, and if their fagades confessed a Spanish touch they were not more Spanish than half the churches in Naples.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

You are not more likely to become a convert because of your tolerance; in fact, you may be the safer for it; and it will prepare you for a gentler pleasure than you would otherwise enjoy in the rites and ceremonies which seem exotic in our wintrier world, but which are here native to the climate, or, at least, could not have had their origin under any but oriental or meridional skies.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

The wild wind of the _Winter's Tale_ at its opening would seem to blow us back into a wintrier world indeed.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

And chiefliest his whose wintrier breath makes chill

Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

By the time we reached Wiesen, all the forests were laden with snow, the roads deep in snow-drifts, the whole scene wintrier than it had been the winter through.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

By the time we reached Wiesen, all the forests were laden with snow, the roads deep in snow-drifts, the whole scene wintrier than it had been the winter through.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

As is usual, all the inside men-servants slept, wintrier and summer, in the barn; and that accounts for our good fortune this night.

Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831