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

We do not have a springtime and a summer and an autumn and a winter of life every year.

From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)

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 Wells, Carolyn

"Under the grass is the fitting home," So they whisper, "for such as thou, When the winter of life is come, Chilling the blood, and frosting the brow."

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

A grave, quiet man, with kind eyes, but already far on in the winter of life.

From Six Women by Cross, Victoria