See winterward on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Peggy O'Neal, page 289:",
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"text": "Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.",
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"ref": "2013, Franz Wright, Kindertotenwald, page 48:",
"text": "Before they do, though, this time I want one of them to tell me who was in charge of tracking my brother's swift progress sleepward and ever more winterward, footprints suddenly come to an end, like an unfinished sentence in the diary of an elderly teenager working the night shift alone, held up at gunpoint and abruptly deceased, halfway across a black snowfield.",
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"ref": "1944, Victoria Lincoln, Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant, page 115:",
"text": "Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass.",
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"ref": "1958, Contact - Issues 1-3:",
"text": "O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?",
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"text": "Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass.",
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"text": "O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?",
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"text": "You said the wind through the trees Named the winterward soul.",
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