/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Winter, Summer
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We say of an old man, “His life has extended to a hundred winters;” but of a blooming girl, “She has seen sixteen summers.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.