decembers

Updated: September 25, 2025

"But do you want him to marry her?" her, so bold, so improper, so prone to seek entertainment in the woes of others! "Oh, well, she's a very fair little chick," replied Giles patiently. "She'll get past her notions pretty soon and be just as good a wife as anybody could ask." One of those quiescent, featureless Decembers was on the land a November prolonged.

Henry Blake Fuller - Under the Skylights

In these bare green valleys there is a sort of delicate austerity even in the summer; the memory of winter seems to be still lingering about these wind-swept fells, about the farmhouses, with their rough serviceable walls, of the same stone as the crags behind them, and the ravines, in which the shrunken becks trickle musically down through the débris of innumerable Decembers.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Robert Elsmere