Many of the midwinter holidays have to do with lights because the nights are so long and cold. From LearnThat.org.
I recall her coming in midwinter from the frozen village where she lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
Coyotes in midwinter could not have been more starved. From Wordnik.com. [American Indian Stories] Reference
Solstice is 21st, but I will celebrarte Yule, or whatever else you call the midwinter festival, at the same time as everyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
Three months afterward, in midwinter, he smote the north shore of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Greece in the same stupefying manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Enemy of All the World] Reference
But Quebec in midwinter is less familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference
Venice was enchanting and alarming and spectral in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [Wharton's Sharp Eye] Reference
With them alone, the office light level is that of a medieval monastery in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
For the third time he had ventured it, this time over the dreaded Chilkoot Pass in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [PLUCK AND PERTINACITY] Reference
One was in 1788, in midwinter, by stage and sleigh. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Pentecost, at Westminster; in midwinter, at Gloucester. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
"A child could climb it blindfolded in midwinter," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
It was now midwinter, and for six weeks they remained in harbour till. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Computerized sprinkler systems could initiate icy midwinter drenchings. From Wordnik.com. [The Day The World Shuts Down] Reference
A roof box, ancient technology, precisely traps a ray of the midwinter sunrise. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for the Light] Reference
In midwinter we heard of the approach of a battalion of the Second Dragoons, under. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He works all the year round: he thrashes in midwinter with the thermometer below zero. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
After the surrender of the garrison of Monterey a quiet camp life was led until midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In the calendar of natural calamities, flu season follows hurricane season, peaking in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [The Race Against Avian Flu] Reference
One night in midwinter Brown Brother, in spite of the safety of his fortress, had a narrow escape. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
VA Secretary Jesse Brown asked bitterly at last week's Veterans of Foreign Wars midwinter conference. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Line Of Fire] Reference
In this glorious midwinter, it is easy to be gulled by the benign face of a country under dictatorship. From Wordnik.com. [Mugabe's Endgame] Reference
This is to prevent the fierce Polar winds which prevail in midwinter from tearing the houses to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo] Reference
France flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
She had joined a small troupe traveling through the bleakest and roughest parts of the Northwest in midwinter. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
It is not an uncommon sight to see them in midwinter hauling sledges along frozen roads and ice-covered rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Natural hazards: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
By midwinter, an account of Penn and Ickes screaming the F word at each other would make it into The Washington Post. From Wordnik.com. [How He Did It] Reference
"I think a Californian can't possibly have a conception of how cold an English bedroom can be in midwinter," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Sense And Sensibility] Reference
Moreover, when the fruit is ripening in an Australasian spring and summer, all England is shivering in midwinter storms. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
So is a snow-plough, in midwinter, though I prefer a more flexible implement when it comes to cultivating my early peas. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
It was now midwinter, and the valley was covered with a mantle of snow, but not as deep as they had anticipated it would be. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
By midwinter they had reached the eastern entrance of the Straits of Magellan, through which many a ship had passed since the days of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
At 3 a.m. on this midwinter night they launched at their respective stations, distant about two miles from each other, the lifeboats of. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
As with the fish just mentioned, it is met with about midwinter, passing up north in countless numbers, sometimes covering miles of sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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