Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Source: My Antonia, bk. 2, ch. 7 (1918).
-- Willa Cather, (Dec 7 1876-1947), US novelist, short-story writer; She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours, 1922; she also wrote O Pioneers, 1913.