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
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 William Henry Sparks
"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 Richard Henry Stoddard
Never was the illusion of summer in winter, of life in death, more palpable or more perfect.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
We do not have a springtime and a summer and an autumn and a winter of life every year.
From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by B. J. (Bert Joseph) Griswold
