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

A grave, quiet man, with kind eyes, but already far on in the winter of life.

From Six Women by Cross, Victoria

Yes, even in the sultry summer, in the melancholy autumn and in the cold winter of life, there is here and there a spring day, and the heart says: "I feel like spring."

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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 Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)

One can see in them the friendship and sentiments of the winter of life.

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)