Cold, hostile

Usage examples of wintry.

Now, her feelings toward him were ambivalent again, especially with Thalia and Kiel still acting decidedly wintry.

Kabibonokka Issued from his lodge of snow-drifts From his home among the icebergs, And his hair, with snow besprinkled, Streamed behind him like a river, Like a black and wintry river, As he howled and hurried southward, Over frozen lakes and moorlands.

Despite his tremendous virility, Malemute Kid was possessed of a softer, womanly element, which could win the confidence of a snarling wolf-dog or draw confessions from the most wintry heart.

The mists shrouded the city like a soft filter, and the gray, wintry cast that characterized so much of the valley was banished.

He pondered the sluggish swirl of the deep mists that screened the sunshine and shrouded the mountains, the thinning groves of Bonnie Blues dotted with wilt and spotting, the lakes and rivers turned gray and clouded, and the meadows and grasslands grown sparse and wintry.

Steps through the wintry but snowless front garden with its top-heavy rosebushes wrapped for the whiter.

With it she was not only able to find out a new, unlisted phone number, but was able to do it in the middle of a wintry night, sending a telephone switchman chasing across town for her.

Chesterfields grouped around the almost new Gothic fireplace in which stood a display of wintry sedge, by the unplayed, untuned harpsichord and the unused rosewood music stands, by the heavy velvet curtains, loosely restrained by an orange and blue tasseled rope, framing a partial view of cloudless sky and the yellow and gray mottled terrace where chamomile and feverfew grew between the paving cracks.

Situated as they were on an unsheltered knoll of land fronting the storm-swept Sound, their flimsy, clapboard facades creaked and groaned under the onslaught of the wintry gale.

Labienus got up and paced across to an unshuttered window, through which blew a cold, ominously wintry blast from the north.

POSSIBLY IT WAS HIS FIRST or second day back in Philadelphia, in early February 1776, after the long wintry journey from home, that Adams, in his room at Mrs.

Across the road in Hyde Park the wintry sun shone on the pale bulk of the Anzac Memorial, the monument to other dead.

Silver blares of wintry sunlight edged the blackish gray clouds scudding overhead, and the wind was a steady pour off the sea.

Based on the level waters, to the sky Lifted their dreadful crags, and like a shore Of wintry mountains, inaccessibly Hemmed in with rifts and precipices gray, And hanging crags, many a cove and bay.

And breathed upon the frozen mountains, And like a prophetess of May Strewed flowers upon the barren way, Making the wintry world appear Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.