How To Use Midwinter In A Sentence
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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It was midwinter, but also periastron; only long nights and frequent rains marked the season in this hemisphere.
Agent Of The Terran Empire
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Such quirky little blooms would be lost in the floral abundance of spring or summer, but in midwinter they are dazzling, standing out against snowy backdrops or the dark needles of evergreens.
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Temperatures can drop well below freezing in midwinter.
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Recognising this, he chose to arrive in midwinter when Venice is cold, wet and magnificently, beautifully bleak.
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It is a good time to stay home, locked away from raging tides and bleak midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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During midwinter ceremonies, an elder's voice will rise as the drum quiets.
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In temperate regions with warm winters, a few warm days, even in midwinter, can be enough to induce bud swelling, which can lead to budbreak if the warmth persists.
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All midwinter nights and saturnalian chaos, a schizoid descent into dreams and delusions.
Archive 2004-09-01
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This is midge territory and, let's be honest, Fort William is not pretty in midwinter.
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The monument was orientated to mark sunrise at the midsummer solstice (and sunset at the midwinter solstice), but whether it has further astronomical significance is debatable.
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Manchester hardly has a reputation for being sunny and dry - especially in midwinter.
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Hundreds of them had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk in the numbing midwinter cold.
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Horrified by the lice and fleas, she had thrown her clothes away and was covered only in a blanket, although it was midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the very least it's something to dream about in the bleak midwinter!
The Sun
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They celebrate midwinter by lighting candles.
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Midwinter does not restrict his discussion of domestic help to private householders.
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JUST now, in the deep midwinter, the outlook is for rain on snow on snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sky like the inside of a saucepan and a mean little drizzle stinging your face, garden sunk deep in midwinter gloom, except for the winter-flowering cherry trees with small, sugar-pink blossoms prinking from bare branches to lift the heart.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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By sealing in moisture, the antidesiccant minimizes the damage that can come from cycles of freezing, thawing, and refreezing in midwinter.
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Few lobstermen fish in midwinter, when lines, decks, and tackles get coated with ice.
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Many are understated for much of the year, coming into their own in midwinter.
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We were amazed that anyone in town would have such things, after three-quarters of a million people went two nights without heat in midwinter.
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The alignment in question is four ways: to midsummer sunrise and sunset, and to midwinter sunrise and sunset.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Summer, always deep midwinter for men's fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plant hippeastrum (amaryllis) bulbs in indoor pots for midwinter flowering.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Ghost Hunter she snowshoed in the trails of elk and reindeer in -18 degrees in the Finnish Lapland midwinter.
A wolf in the hand luggage
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Only five weeks from midwinter, the daylight hours were short.
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This is very warming stuff for the bleak midwinter.
The Sun
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I came by the position honestly, I assure you: after my tirade the other day about the vital importance of good lighting in a midwinter writing space, the proverbial bee seems to have remained in my bonnet, buzzily nagging — nay, demanding — that I move my studio to the brightest room in the house in genteel protest of the notorious darkness of a Seattle winter and the news in the last few issues of Publishers Weekly.
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The children are infected with a mad desire to swim in the lake in midwinter.
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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Even in midwinter, women went about the streets in miniskirts (though they wore long, long boots when it was really cold.)
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He immediately consulted his almanac to see what Midwinter in Ancelstierre would correspond with in the Old Kingdom.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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To fight midwinter dark and chill, portable hearths -- this tiled firepot goes for $995 -- are a must.
Another Campaign Headache?
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It was, as has often been observed, a safe prediction that major operations would not take place in midwinter.
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The weather can be very clear and bright in midwinter.
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Because midwinter weather could mean frozen soil at the delivering or receiving end, that left autumn and spring for planting.
Times, Sunday Times
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It happened one bleak midwinter on the day of our annual farmyard Nativity play.
Times, Sunday Times
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In midwinter, coach trips are available daily from Como town to Madesimo to ski for the day.
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I should have liked to have looked down from the sun into the sunlessness, as the old Fate woman at Ronco can do when she sits in winter at her window; or again, I should like to see how things would look from this same window on a leaden morning in midwinter after snow has fallen heavily and the sky is murky and much darker than the earth.
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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Yes, the team with the most-bloated payroll in hockey and, by comparison to its peers, in nearly any sport, woke up in midwinter and realized its approach wasn't working.
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The king had decided to pose a surprise attack on the northern fortress of Dramar, and the armies gathered right after the midwinter feast.
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A unique prehistoric tomb in Ireland has been revealed to align to both the midsummer Sun and the midwinter Moon.
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Darkest midwinter, when the nights stretch out and the daylight hours are short, is a traditional time for sitting around a blazing fire and sharing a tale or two about ghosts and hauntings.
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Which large shrubs have scented flowers in midwinter?
Times, Sunday Times
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Which large shrubs have scented flowers in midwinter?
Times, Sunday Times
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This new axis also incorporated other solar events, for example the setting of the midsummer sun and the rising and setting of the midwinter sun.
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As the sport surveys its bleak midwinter, those are two very fine reasons to smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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The festival itself I have no quarrel with; good old hijacked midwinter solstice feast that it is.
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Ironfoot is a former soldier and currently a scholar working for the seelie main Academy and specializing in arcane magic and technology who is investigating the devastating "weapon of mass destruction" that the villainous unseelie Queen Mab had unleashed on a seelie city at the end of Midwinter.
"The Office of Shadow" by Matthew Sturges (reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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Without either a spacesuit on the moon, or heavy clothing and shelter in a midwinter Antarctic blizzard, the human body would rapidly succumb to the extreme conditions.
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I am 12 or 13 and it is deep midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is very much a community event, with schools, businesses and local organisations all joining together for a fun day to brighten the bleak midwinter.
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The weather can be very clear and bright in midwinter.
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For two years we got along wonderfully as friends, until the night of the midwinter feast five years ago.
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Lionboy is a zinger or a story, told with a J.K. Rowling-like blend of humor, drama and headlong plotting – overplotting, sometimes – though worlds removed from Hogwarts ..... a delicious midwinter promise of adventures to come.
Lionboy: Summary and book reviews of Lionboy by Zizou Corder.
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Add the crunch of toasted bread and pancetta, and there you are: peperonata con bruschetta, a red pepper resurrection in midwinter.
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They didn't pray and then roister on Midwinter's Day.
Bridge of the Separator
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Also, the price of gold has a seasonal trend, peaking in midwinter.
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They celebrate midwinter by lighting candles.
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But seriously, there really are observations of circadian activity in arctic reindeer that suggest something interesting is going on in reindeer brains in midwinter and midsummer.
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In midwinter, the sun's elevation does not exceed 20 to 23 degrees, and the shortest day consists of about nine hours of daylight.
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The whole castle was in a flurry of excitement and preparation for the midwinter feast which was to be celebrated in a week.
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Lain's Barn is the perfect setting for Midwinter merchants, selling everything from weapons to costume.
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After the initial exhilaration, a slow realisation dawned that this bleak midwinter weather might seriously interfere with life as we know it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children are infected with a mad desire to swim in the lake in midwinter.
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This is a badly needed feelgood show for a bleaker than usual midwinter season.
Times, Sunday Times
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Damp almost certainly means midges, something often overlooked when a garden is planned in midwinter, so this is not the ideal spot for summer suppers under the stars.
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But I should have liked to have looked down from the sun into the sunlessness, as the old Fate woman at Ronco can do when she sits in winter at her window; or again, I should like to see how things would look from this same window on a leaden morning in midwinter after snow has fallen heavily and the sky is murky and much darker than the earth.
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
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The early morning temperature dropped dramatically, as the grass and all the plants suddenly froze over with a frost that would only appear in midwinter.
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Anyway, it's no fun gardening in miserable midwinter weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Typically they will devote their third year efforts to capturing the charms of disused water towers or rubbish-strewn beaches in midwinter.
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My own story seemed flat and cold, the midwinter indeed bleak and unending.
Christianity Today
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Horrified by the lice and fleas, she had thrown her clothes away and was covered only in a blanket, although it was midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this bleak midwinter, no art looks ahead to the New Year with less confidence than orchestral concerts.
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In the midwinter and early summer, the shamal - a north wind carrying sand and dust - blows fiercely.
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Midwinter ski conditions prevail most times here, since the area receives well more than 200 inches of natural snow yearly.
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Talk about a bleak midwinter on Merseyside.
The Sun
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Rituals enacted in midwinter ensured the return of the sun in springtime to breathe life back into the barren soil and bring fertility to the land so that its inhabitants may reap a plentiful harvest.
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Anybody feeling the pinch of bleak midwinter can warm to the glow of this returning drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lapp shamans used to eat the mushroom during the midwinter pagan ceremonies of Annual Renewal.
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Then she spoke softly, but her voice was cold as the ice when the midwinter sun rises.
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By midwinter these intraband tensions were exacerbated as Big Road's own young men reacted suspiciously to their leader's preferment.
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Even modern humans with light colored skin living at this latitude today experience a midwinter period of hypovitaminosis D, that is, a low level of vitamin D that is a consequence of lower winter sunlight that in turn reduces the production of vitamin D in the skin.
Chron.com Chronicle
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Both flowered at midsummer and midwinter.
Times, Sunday Times
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At glaciation's midwinter, a colter of ice opened a gap in the Kazan ringwall.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
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Temperatures can drop well below freezing in midwinter.
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I suspect I know who you would most like to see in midwinter when your pipes burst.
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It was impossible to walk the route in midwinter.
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It was impossible to walk the route in midwinter.
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That may seem improbable amid the bleak midwinter and continuing bad news from many parts of the global economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I still think it looks at its best on bleak midwinter days like these.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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The weather has been appalling during the past 72 hours - more like midwinter than midsummer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He tells Helen why he loves the marsh even in the bleakness of midwinter.
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Midwinter Graces isn't merely a covers album, however; Amos has written five originals, including the lush love ballad A Silent Night With You, the torchy Pink And Glitter (which finds the artist venturing assuredly into big band territory) and Winter's Carol, the latter song offering listeners a preview of her upcoming musical, The Light Princess.
Tori Amos - Undented
