I've seen with shining fair the morning rise, And soon the sleety clouds mirk a' the skies.
And let his weird and sleety beard Stream loose upon the blast, And, rustling, chime to the tinkling rime From his bald head falling fast.
THE day is closing dark and cold, With roaring blast and sleety showers; And through the dusk the lilacs wear The bloom of snow, instead of flowers.
Yon cauld sleety cloud skiffs alang the bleak mountain, And shakes the dark firs on the stey rocky brae; While down the deep glen bawls the snaw-flooded fountain, That murmur'd sae sweet to my laddie and me.
When winter blaws in sleety showers, Frae aff the norlan' hills sae hie, He lightly skiffs thy bonny bowers, As laith to harm a flower in thee.
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed.
During the night the sleety drizzle had ceased, and the sun streamed with brilliant coldness upon a city which shone in a glare of ice.
Still, for an hour nothing could be seen, until between three and four the snow gave place to a sleety rain, and the watchers saw that they were passing with frightful rapidity a line of jagged ice-cliffs, not two hundred yards away.
Lund saw them fade from view into the sleety veil that hid the waste of waters, and groaning in spirit, turned homeward.
There was a long silence, unbroken save by the whistle of the blasts and the metallic rattle of the sleety snow: "Ah-huk!
The ice was almost perfectly level, save where a heavy drift had formed a small mound around which it was better to steer, although the sleety crust had frozen so hard that the broad-runnered Belgian skates would run almost anywhere.
Defn: Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.
There was an east wind blowing, and the sleety rain fell.
The wind blew, and the sleety rain fell, and I went back to the inn.
She recalled the sudden halt, the moaning of the wind through the trees overhead, the sifting of the sleety snow against the sides of the sleigh.
No thought now, in your boyish dreams, of sleety storms, and cables stiffened with ice, and crashing spars, and great icebergs towering fearfully around you!
The sleety storm drove sharply in my face, rendered doubly sensitive to its rigor by long absence from outward air.
I ran up the sleety steps in advance of him, and rang the bell with convulsive energy.
Slow faring through the sleety drizzle, they have got to the Champ-de-Mars: Not there!
Many have from time to time attempted it in vain; some, after almost reaching the summit, have been driven back by thunderbolts or sleety whirlwinds.
The roads were sleety and skiddy, and required careful driving.
The final stretch of the journey became a dim and frosty blur of sleety trees.
What though the traveller toil and tug Where sleetydrifts be shook?
For most men, an ignorant enjoyment is better than an informed one; it is better to conceive the sky as a blue dome than a dark cavity, and the cloud as a golden throne than a sleety mist.
It was then March, and the snow had given place to cold sleety rains, and the fields and the ground about their home were miniature swamps full of mud.
They shivered, and drew their shoulders together as they walked, for it was night, and a cold, sleety rain was falling.
