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

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 Woolson, Constance Fenimore

We are both in the winter of life, time's uses are almost ended, and all that is blissful now are the memories of the past.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry

"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

It is dry and faded and I am old: And the hand that gave it is green with mould, And the winter of life is cold—so cold.

From Yesterdays by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler