Persia is a difficult country to write about, for unless one colours the picture too highly to be recognisable, it is apt to be uninteresting even under the haze of the summer sun, while in wintertime the country disappears under a blanket of white snow.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
Now yo' know that way down in Ol' Virginny where Ah done come from, mah fam'ly done got the habit of sitting on the tops of chimneys in the wintertime to warm their toes.
"Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories"
Thornton W. Burgess
Irrigation now, instead of sluices; and lots of the dry farmers from below go up to Butte and work in the mines in the wintertime-eight or ten thousand men in mines there all the time."
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough