winter of life
Example Sentences
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And I began to feel in the boys a curious, wary, bewildered despair, as though they were now settling in for the long, hard winter of life.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
She had felt the variable temper of society, and there was a presentiment in the heart, of receding flatteries and the winter of life.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Never was the illusion of summer in winter, of life in death, more palpable or more perfect.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
Could he meet the winter of life as well as the summer?
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
In the rock's gloomy crevice the bright holly grows, The ivy waves fresh o'er the withering rose; And the evergreen love of a virtuous wife Smooths the roughness of care—cheers the winter of life.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
