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Summery

adjective
1.
Belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer.  "Summery dresses"





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"Summery" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spring his cooly mildness brings us back, Now th' equinoctial heaven's rage and wrack Hushes at hest of Zephyr's bonny breeze. Far left (Catullus!) be the Phrygian leas And summery Nicaea's fertile downs: 5 Fly we to Asia's fame-illumined towns. Now lust my fluttering thoughts for wayfare long, Now my glad eager feet grow steady, strong. O fare ye well, my comrades, pleasant throng, Ye who together far from homesteads ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's ...
— New Poems • D. H. Lawrence
... Whippet, although she was fast at typewriting, was hard put to it to keep up with his correspondence. She quivered eagerly over her machine, her small paws flying. New pink ribbons gleamed through her translucent summery georgette blouse. They were her flag of exultation at her surprising rise in life. She felt it was immensely important to get ...
— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley
... acts, if not in words: "Isn't this the jolliest weather you ever saw?" Away up in Alaska, where the glaciers hold perpetual sway, this bird has been seen in the month of November as glad and blithesome as were his comrades in the summery gorges of New Mexico. ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser
... inspiring. At least they copy the outer show. Tender-hued shirt-waists first push up their sprouts of arms through the winter furs and woollens, quite as the first violets out in the woodland thrust themselves up through the brown carpet of leaves. Then every window becomes a summery glade of lawn, tulle, and chiffon, more lavish of tints, shades, and combinations, indeed, than ever nature dared ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson


Words linked to "Summery" :   wintry, vernal, aestival, summer, estival, summer-blooming, summer-flowering, autumnal


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