1 As winter drew on, Mollie became more and more troublesome.
2 It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one.
3 The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter.
4 The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball.
5 This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
6 This would light the stalls and warm them in winter, and would also run a circular saw, a chaff-cutter, a mangel-slicer, and an electric milking machine.
7 For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
8 They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fields; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies.
9 They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.