As we took the road the sleet and snow were still falling, but we labored on to Dodge that day in spite of the fact that many of the mules played out on the way.
The day we left Supply we, had another dose of sleet and snow, but nevertheless we made good time, and by night-fall reached Bluff Creek.
The shower was a vicious one, with the sting of sleet and hail in its drops, pelted about by gusts that ruffled up the puddles into ripples, all set on end, like the feathers of a frightened hen.
Later the sleet would turn to rain, and so the day would pass till we were soaked through to the skin.
At dawn the ice would begin to break up and a steady sleet begin to fall.
The storm of sleet still raged, and nothing could be more gloomy than the aspect of dreariness and desolation which the wrecked forest presented with its dense growth of briers and thorns.
The storm was growing more violent, the sleet growing worse and worse.
Pallid, wan-faced clouds Press close to the frozen pines, And follow the jagged lines Of fence, that the sleet enshrouds.
I hear the beat Of their pinions fleet, As from the land of snow and sleet They seek a southern lea.
The wind is blowing half a gale, and sleet is falling, but once we are started no one cares for the weather.
Porlock Weir was comparatively sheltered, but once on top of the hill again, the gale seems to have increased, and the sleet to be thicker, and by the time we get home we are nearly frozen, and it is pitch dark.
The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to drivingsleet and mist.
Here are my razors--the best of steel; here, and make the barbs sharp as the needle-sleet of the Icy Sea.
Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.
The sleet was falling rapidly and the wind blowing such a gale the sound of the coach was not heard by the Duke, as he paced his chamber.
The snow and sleet were vigorously driven by the wind that howled continuously.
It just struck him that his walk home in the driving sleet had decidedly chilled his body.
When they went out, the sleet was coming thick and fast, and Derry's car was waiting.
The sleet came down in golden streaks against the glow of the street lights.
Through the scurrying snow and sleet it shone steadily and hopefully, unaffected by the wind and fury that waged war outside.
The hail and sleet were harder than I had yet felt them; seeming almost to pin us down to the rigging.
It blew a tremendous gale from the eastward, with sleetand snow, and there was every promise of a dangerous and fatiguing night.
The shrouds were now iced over, the sleet having formed a crust round all the standing rigging, and on the weather side of the masts and yards.
To make our condition still worse, the wind came out due east, just after sundown, and it blew a gale dead ahead, with hail and sleet and a thick fog, so that we could not see half the length of the ship.
At the same time sleet and hail were driving with all fury against us.
Sometimes he burrows in deep snow for shelter from the cold, and then is liable to be caught by a sleetstorm and frozen in his hiding-place.
Think of the work that these birds do, who not only fight the insect army in summer, but in sleet and snow are as busy as ever destroying the eggs that would turn in another season to worms and eat the orchards!
A fine sleet flew in, imperceptible save for the sensation of damp it gave, and the slight haze it diffused through the air.
You get a switch, and if Sleet won't follow Snow in, you drive her.
Now Sleet and Snow were treasures untold to Valentine and Anna Kull.
Sleet stood on the shore, and saw her baby tied fast.
In it Sleet drank deep, and soothed for a moment the bites that tormented her; the children kneeled on the grassy bank, and drank from their palms; the calf frolicked in it, till driven out.
THE SLEET Regal the earth seems with diamonds today, Gemming all nature in blazing array; A picture more fairy-like never could be Than this wonderful icicle filigree.
Suffering from cold and hunger, huddled around the fire in their little wigwam, the wind roaring through the trees overhead, and the snow and sleet beating upon the bark, the lads realized as never before the tragedy of Cadieux's fate.
He looked at me sternly, and in a voice that drowned the clashing of the trees in the wind and the rattling of the sleet against the bark, he asked me why I had not heeded the warnings.
The wind blew a gale, lashing them with rain and stinging sleet that would have chilled them through if they had not had to work so hard.
Sleet and frozen snow rattled on the bark covering.
Certainly it had passed the freezing-point, and sharp sleet and hail were borne upon the wings of the wind.
The piercing sleet dashed into her very eyes, blinding her, as she floundered on, and the raw, cutting wind penetrated even the warm folds of her thick woolen mantle.
The wind and sleetcame driving in fierce gusts against the house, shaking the doors and rattling the windows; then came a lull, and then the knock was repeated, this time more loudly.
The wind blew in terrible gusts, shrieking wildly through the bare arms of the pines, drifting the snow into great hills, and driving the piercing sleet clamorously against the windows.
Then the blizzards, which are storms of sleet and snow driven with a fierce wind, and so thick that it is quite impossible to get out of doors, or see at all, would be too trying.
This sleetand wind are beyond any former experience of mine at this season.
They sleep when winter's winds are loud, And snow and sleet come drifting by; And when light sails the rosy cloud, And Spring's sweet gales around them sigh.
The rain and sleet were driven furiously before the wind, and the child of want shrank from the biting blast, as stern necessity drove him forth to meet the peltings of the winter storm.
The boat was soon gliding over the foaming ocean, and the sorrowing friends returned to their homes, for the driving snow and sleet would not permit them to linger long, to watch its progress.
Except a short interval of clear weather about nine o'clock, it was continually foggy, with either sleet or snow.
