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 study septic conditions developed in the oxidation pond in the spring when the ice melted.

During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

During the next spring or summer, the stem of the biennial plant elongates greatly, or " bolts ".

During the spring of 1798, Bonaparte assembled over 35, 000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy and developed a powerful fleet at Toulon ; he also formed the Commission des Sciences et des Arts, a body of scientists and engineers intended to establish the French colony in Egypt.

During the spring and summer, First Nations and Métis trappers did the vast majority of the animal trapping and pelt preparation.

During World War II, continental Norway was invaded and occupied by Germany in spring 1940.

During the spring of 56 BC, the Triumvirs held a conference, as Rome was in turmoil and Caesar's political alliance was coming undone.

During a spring training game in 1968, Bench was catching the eight-year veteran right-hander Jim Maloney.

During winter and early spring, New Jersey can experience " nor ' easters ", which are capable of causing blizzards or flooding throughout the northeastern United States.

During 1961 spring training, Clemente tried to modify his batting technique by using a heavier bat in order to slow the speed of his swing, following advice from Pirates ' batting coach George Sisler.

During spring and autumn, average daytime temperatures vary between to, and precipitation during this time tends to be higher than in summer, with more frequent yet milder periods of rain.

During the winter molt it sheds all its feathers ; in the spring, it sheds all but the wing and tail feathers, which are dark brown in the female and black in the male.

During the Antarctic winter and spring, however, reactions on the surface of the polar stratospheric cloud particles convert these " reservoir " compounds into reactive free radicals ( Cl and ClO ).

During the spring, however, the sun comes out, providing energy to drive photochemical reactions and melt the polar stratospheric clouds, releasing the trapped compounds.

During the year approximately 300 days are sunny and the few others are rainy, with a major concentration of rainfall in the winter and autumn, some heavy showers in the spring, and snowfalls on the highest massifs and highlands.

During the winter and the spring of 1959-60, Nasser slowly squeezed prominent Syrians out of positions of influence.

During the spring of 1799, the city had fallen into the hands of the Republic of France, which established a small garrison there.

During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party.

During a lull in the intra-party fighting in the spring of 1926, Zinoviev, Kamenev and their supporters gravitated closer to Trotsky's supporters and the two groups soon formed an alliance, which also incorporated some smaller opposition groups within the Communist Party.

During the spring, it may be set back in the ground to complete its life cycle.

During this spring frenzy, hares can be seen " boxing "; one hare striking another with its paws ( probably the origin of the term " mad as a March hare ").

During the spring of 1863, Hooker established a reputation as an outstanding administrator and restored the morale of his soldiers, which had plummeted to a new low under Burnside.

During September 2006, PBS in the United States aired a series of programs videotaped in Branson during the spring of 2006 ; these shows include the last recorded performances of the complete Original Comets line-up including Grande.

During a spring training game against the Chicago White Sox in 1963, the Reds ' regular second baseman, Don Blasingame, pulled a groin muscle ; Rose got his chance and made the most of it.

During another spring training game against the New York Yankees, Whitey Ford gave him the derisive nickname " Charlie Hustle " after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk.