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Winter Boreas the north wind; associated with winter. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 130] pictorial emblem in Buddhist tradition. [Animal Symbol-ism: Jobes, 378] personification of winter; “Grandfather Frost.” [Russ. Folklore: Misc.] zodiacally belongs to December; hence, winter. [Astrology: Hall, 139] personification; portrayed as old and decrepit. [Rom. Myth.: LLEI, I: 322] personification of winter. [Pop. Culture: Misc.]
personification of winter. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] personification of winter. [Art: Hall, 130] the period of her stay (winter) with Hades. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 28] |
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| "Then," said D'Artagnan, "let us give the money to the lackeys, as Lord de Winter desired us to do. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees. |
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