1870 , , All the Year Round - Volume 4; Volume 24 , That last sentence, I fancy, does not ring badly, but, as we are creeping winterwards, it bears a somewhat chilly construction, and will, I doubt not, incline the reader to contemplate with satisfaction the promise of his or her snug bed.
1882 , Mrs. Stanley Clarke , From the Deck of a Yacht , At eight that evening we looked our last on the pleasures of our voyage, the brightness of Corfu, and the glorious Albanian hills ; said, " Grood-bye summer," and sailed winterwards all that night, arriving at Brindisi at 8 a.m. on the 24th, a miserable, lowering, tempestuous day, with a lurid, stormy sky, and a heavy, tossing sea.
1957 , David Harbord Bone , The bees of Swanland: a poem , Though damp, though leafless, though devoid of song, As winterwards earth runs.
2007 , John North , Stonehenge, Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?
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1961 , , Outposts - Issues 47-55 , That first tree in the garden must be climbed and a new landscape from its branches limbed, a life surveyed from its winterwards foliage for I am now the spring, I am now my age.
2014 , Elizabeth Moon , Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles, The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.
2019 , E. F. Benson , The Challoners, Till to-day all had been grey and brown, all still pointed backward, winterwards; but this morning it was different, and the million sprouting lives shouted, “Look forward, look forward!
