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

Doubtless there are many workmen who follow a more rational course, who are reaping and storing the harvest for the comfort and security of themselves and their families during the winter of life.

From Creating Capital Money-making as an aim in business by Lipman, Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood)

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

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

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