The most wintry day of the winter.

February 20.

Snows all day. The most wintry day of the winter; yet not more than three inches on a level is fallen. 

We hear the names of the worthies of Concord, — Squire Cuming and the rest,—but the poor slave Casey seems to have lived a more adventurous life than any of them. Squire Cuming probably never had to run for his life on the plains of Concord.

H.. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 20, 1858

The most wintry day of the winter. See February 19, 1858 ("Coldest morning this winter by our thermometer, -3° at 7.30.")