WINTER in Classic Quotes

1  The winter morning was as clear as crystal.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  One cold winter morning, as he dressed in the dark, his candle flickering in the draught of the ill-fitting window, he had heard her speak from the bed behind him.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  It was a fact that since Mattie Silver's coming he had taken to shaving every day; but his wife always seemed to be asleep when he left her side in the winter darkness, and he had stupidly assumed that she would not notice any change in his appearance.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  And there were other sensations, less definable but more exquisite, which drew them together with a shock of silent joy: the cold red of sunset behind winter hills, the flight of cloud-flocks over slopes of golden stubble, or the intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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