winter of life

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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

Yes, even in the sultry summer, in the melancholy autumn and in the cold winter of life, there is here and there a spring day, and the heart says: "I feel like spring."

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Could he meet the winter of life as well as the summer?

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson

This is surely a grand provision for old age, a life insurance worthy of the name, a home for the winter of life, and a blessed assurance with regard to one's eternity.

From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by Evans, William

One finds in them the friendship and feelings of that winter of life.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe