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 Frederick L. (Frederic Lockwood) Lipman
All souls must lay up something spiritual, even as they must lay up food for the winter of life, for the bleak bright hours of the soul's sterile fight.
From Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters
As the flowers were dying, she was ripening for the winter of life.
From Tales of Two Countries by William Archer
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 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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