Wintriness

If temperature is any measure of wintriness, it is clear that December has been much colder than average in Washington. ❋ Martin Weil (2010)

Is this death, a graveyard, or simply winter and the wintriness of the mind that gives itself up to seeing with such selfless clarity? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I guess somehow -- my old jacket, studiousness, Uncle N sleeping in the living room, wintriness, even the death of John Lennon -- I am reminded of college, which was in many ways a great time of life. ❋ Readersguide (2005)

If even there had been sheep munching, pushing one foot after another, or a bird, or a man driving a spade into the earth, had there been a bramble to trip me, or a ditch, damp with soaked leaves, into which to fall — but no, the melancholy path led along the level, to more wintriness and pallor and the equal and uninteresting view of the same landscape. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There is a scepticism whose face is toward wintriness and death; but there is a doubt which is looking toward the sun and toward all blessedness. ❋ Unknown (1876)

Polar aristocracy, inflicting the woes of wintriness upon us. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

And he was merry like a boy now that the first breath of spring -- for so it seemed, although no doubt plenty of wintriness remained and would yet show itself -- had loosened the hard hold of the frost, which is the death of Nature. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

But there's no denying the overwhelming, sense-numbing wintriness of ❋ By BEN BRANTLEY (2011)

But D.coder believes that even that statistic overstates D. C.'s lack of wintriness. ❋ Unknown (2009)