1.   But these days they are lighting up warily in the rude breezes, preparing for a bleak winter.

2.   That flight from the bleak Wisconsin winter to sunny California led him to reflect on the underestimated role that escapes play in our public and personal lives.

3.   The barbed hook in that designation is that it comes at the end of the season, so it must be endured for a bleak winter.

4.   The second act begins not in summer but bleak winter, snow falling among giant birch trees.

5.   Despite the failure of countless previous truces, the current agreement comes at during the bleak Balkan winter and as both sides are apparently weary of fighting.

6.   Despite the failure of countless previous truces, the current agreement comes during the bleak Balkan winter and as both sides are apparently weary of fighting.

7.   The Amundsen-Scott base, like most scientific bases in Antarctica, is virtually isolated except for telecommunications contact during its bleak winter from February to November.

8.   They complain environmentalists seek to stir emotions by distributing photographs that do not show the refuge as it is during the bleak winter months when oil exploration would occur.

9.   Ulihrach was pleased to be in sunny Doha, a far cry from the bleak winter of the Czech Republic.