https://t.inks.page/wiki/Winter Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winter?t=2026-04-06 Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, the very dead of winter.

• Lancelot Andrewes, Of the Nativity (1622), Sermon 15

  Cf. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi" (1927)

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