The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

During the winter, the I Corps was reorganized and Doubleday assumed command of the 3rd Division.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

During winter, fast ice, which is attached to the shoreline, develops first, rendering the ports unusable without the services of icebreakers.

During the winter of 1939 – 40, Hitler decreased the size of the fighting manpower in order to return as many skilled workers to the factories as was possible.

During winter training, the pilots fly two practice sessions per day, six days a week, in order to fly the 120 training missions needed to perform the demonstration safely.

During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes form dense dust clouds that obscure the sun ; however, sunny days are the norm year round.

During the winter months Lake Cadillac and Lake Mitchell freeze over and the city becomes covered with snow.

During the winter, sea temperatures tend to be higher than land temperatures, and vice versa during the summer months.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

During the winter months, temperatures average a high of and a low of around, whereas during the summer a mean high of and a low of can be expected.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

During winter, the auk lost these patches, instead developing a white band stretching between the eyes.

During winter the auk molted and lost this eye patch, which was replaced with a wide white band and a gray line of feathers which stretched from the eye to the ear.

During the winter, the throat became white.

During the winter, the Great Auk migrated south either in pairs or in small groups, and never with the entire nesting colony.

During the winter monsoon, however, currents in the north are reversed.

During the period 1790-1815 Sweden experienced two parallel economic movements: an agricultural revolution with larger agricultural estates, new crops and farming tools and a commercialisation of farming, and a protoindustrialisation, with small industries being established in the countryside and with workers switching between agricultural work in the summer season and industrial production in the winter season.

During the winter of 1779, Simcoe attempted to capture George Washington, but decided that his men would not shoot the future president.

During this period, Palau underwent its first form of civil unrest since the last inter-village war in 1879.

Gladstone During the Midlothian Campaign 1879 Speaking directly to the people for the first time, Gladstone's Midlothian campaign symbolises a major change in the role of the Prime Minister.

During a trip to Dunfermline in 1879, he was mocked by the Chief Templar, who told him his poetry was very bad.

During the 1879 election campaign, also called Midlothian campaign, he rousingly spoke against Disraeli's foreign policies during the ongoing Second Anglo-Afghan War in Afghanistan.

During a dinner at Verdi ’ s Milan residence during the summer of 1879, Ricordi and Faccio guided the conversation towards Shakespeare ’ s play Othello and to the librettist Arrigo Boito ( whom Ricordi claimed to be a great fan of the play also ).

During the winter of 1878 and 1879 he rode his horse north on the frozen Tongue River to hunt buffalo in the Yellowstone River Country.

During this time the Huáscar participated in the Battle of Antofagasta ( May 26, 1879 ) and the Second Battle Antofagasta ( August 28, 1879 ).

During this period, the old 1879 bridge over the River Clyde was removed and the railway lines were rearranged.

During the war Abd el-Krim was punished by the Spanish government for anticolonial activities including an alleged conspiracy with the German consul Dr. Walter Zechlin ( 1879 – 1962 ).

During the 19th century the influx of people from the surrounding counties looking for work in the local ironworks and coal mines gave cricket a boost and in June 1879 " a meeting was held at the Institute to form a cricket club in the town ".

During the famine of 1879 – 80, Sir Henry provided free food for the tenants on his estate at Lissadell House in the north of County Sligo in the north-west of Ireland.

During the department era, Alaska was variously under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Army ( until 1877 ), the United States Department of the Treasury ( from 1877 until 1879 ) and the U. S. Navy ( from 1879 until 1884 ).

During the Department era, Alaska was variously under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Army ( until 1877 ), the United States Department of the Treasury ( from 1877 until 1879 ) and the U. S. Navy ( from 1879 until 1884 ), but now the area had its own government.

During his last year at the Académie in 1878 – 1879 he neglected his classes in Brussels and lived for a while in Passy, were he visited the Cours Libres of Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian.

During Colorado Agricultural College's first term in fall 1879, the school functioned more as a college-prep school than a college because of the lack of trained students.

During the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Colonel Charles Pearson lead the coastal column to Eshowe.

During the performance on 31 July 1879, Carte's former business partners in the Comedy Opera Company ( with whom Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan had split ) tried to seize the set, creating a celebrated fracas.

During the Martini-Henry period in service, the British army were involved in a large number of colonial wars, most notably the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.

During the 1879 event, this permitted Charles Augustus Young to attempt a careful measurement of the oblateness ( polar compression ) of Mars.

During 1930 and 1931 a new station building was constructed to replace the 1879 building.

During the defence of Rorke's Drift on the 22 and 23 January 1879 Bromhead shared the command of the defenders of the post with John Chard, an officer of the Royal Engineers.