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  • The General smiled wintrily, and, at the conclusion of his peregrination, remarked to Colonel Dearman: --

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Its own crushed infinity of crystals, its own richness of tiny sculpture, fills it, when regarded near at hand, with wonderful depths of coloured shadow, and, though wintrily transformed, it is still water, and has watery tones of blue.

    Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The wide spread of country was a white waste now; the delicate beauties of the snow were lost in the far view; and the distant Catskill showed wintrily against the fair blue sky.

    Queechy 1854

  • The wide spread of country was a white waste now; the delicate beauties of the snow were lost in the far view; and the distant Catskill shewed wintrily against the fair blue sky.

    Queechy Susan Warner 1852

  • The wide spread of country was a white waste now; the delicate beauties of the snow were lost in the far view; and the distant Catskill showed wintrily against the fair blue sky.

    Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852

  • a mischievous remark to Maurice, but the latter smiled wintrily in return.

    Maurice Guest 2003

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