winterbound

Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall.

On The Wolf Hunt Countdown 2009

Not a single leap of a single deer, nor any traverse of any mountain goat across a winterbound cliff wall.

On The Wolf Hunt Countdown 2009

The plovers were crying over the freshly-turned ploughed fields, a whole world of wild birds and insects seemed to have imparted a sense of movement and life to what only a few days ago had been a land of desolation, a country silent and winterbound.

The Betrayal 1906

As he passed along the street he kept close to the house fronts to avoid the sun that was everywhere stirring the winterbound town, like a suffusion of young blood through old veins.

The Masquerader Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

I know to you winterbound folks up Minnesota and Canada way that's a pretty babyish thing to whine about, but I'm sick of the rain.

The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely 2008