To some few millions of people D-e-c-e-m-b-e-r spells Christmas.
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Roast Beef, Medium
 by 
Edna Ferber
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
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Agnes Grey
 by 
Anne Bronte
It was one January morning, very earlya pinching, frosty morningthe cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
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Treasure Island
 by 
Robert Louis Stevenson
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
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The Invisible Man
 by 
H. G. Wells
One night—it was in June, '89—there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the clock.
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The Man with the Twisted Lip
 by 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It was October, and the air was cool and sharp, woodsmoke and damp moss exquisitely mingled in it with the subtle odours of the pines.
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Secret Worship
 by 
Algernon Blackwood
O, how this spring of love resembleth
 The uncertain glory of an April day,
 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by an by a cloud takes all away!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
 by 
William Shakespeare
January was watering and freezing old earth by turns . . .
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
 by 
George Meredith
It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light.  The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
 by 
Charles Dickens
"He makes a July's day short as December . . . "
 ~ 
The Winter's Tale
 by 
William Shakespeare