1 And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
2 The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.
3 She saw too that the old aloof face of Ashley, the one she knew so well, had come back and it was wintry too, and harsh with hurt and remorse.
4 The whole darkening room depressed her and, going to the window, she raised the sash, unlatched the shutters and let the last light of the wintry sunset into the room.
5 "Yes," and he smiled again, the smile more wintry than before.
6 It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.
7 Why--why--it had been Ashley in the wintry, windswept orchard at Tara, talking of life and shadow shows with a tired calmness that had more finality in its timbre than any desperate bitterness could have revealed.
8 It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
9 He took the bag from his belt and showed us three rabbits he had shot, looked at Antonia with a wintry flicker of a smile and began to tell her something.
10 And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day.
11 The first of December was a wintry day indeed to them, for a bitter wind blew, snow fell fast, and the year seemed getting ready for its death.
12 When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.
13 Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season.
14 When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.
15 At that she smiled a ravishing girl's smile, as if the wind had warmed the wintry blue in her eyes to amber.