Into the storm they drove, head down, buffeted by a screaming wind laden with stinging sleet that swept howling across the lake.

In March, before the violet has ventured to peep out from the southern knoll of the pasture or the sunny brow of the hill, while the northern skies are liable to pour down at any hour a storm of sleet and snow, the Song-Sparrow, beguiled by southern winds, has already made his appearance, and, on still mornings, may be heard warbling his few merry notes, as if to make the earliest announcement of his arrival.

We have here rain and sleet in the month of July, And hailstones as big as a small cannon-ball— And they do as much harm—not a word of a lie!

In the winter time—preserve us all—to live in there’s a treat Especially when it’s raining hard, and blowing wind and sleet.

It was a blustering spring day, and Avery, caught in a sudden storm of driving sleet, stood up against the railings of the doctor's house, sheltering as best she might.

It was of Jeanie that Avery was thinking as she stood there huddled against the railings while the sleet beat a fierce tattoo on her levelled umbrella and streamed from it in rivers on to the ground.

I shall arrive,what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird.

On that day so furious a tempest raged that the friends decided not to follow the coffin through the driving rain and sleet.

THE WAIF I sit in my luxurious chair; Soft rugs caress my slippered feet; Within, a balmy, summer air; Without, a wintry storm of sleet.

On, on he goes through snow and sleet, With nothing more of warmth and cheer!

where more and more The human race increased, There were cold and heat, and snow and sleet, And troubles never ceased; For wind and rain beat down the grain, And the plague slew man and beast.

And the wind began to come up; and it was so lonesome and desolate in that little bed-room down-stairs, I felt as if we were all buried alive; and I couldn't get to sleep; and when the sleet and snow began to rattle on the pane, I thought there wasn't any one to see me

The eldest boy wrapt around his younger brother his little cloak, to shield him from the surf and sleet, and then drew him close to his side and said to him, "the night will not be long, and as the wind blows we shall the sooner reach our home and see the peet fire glow."

Winter with its snow and sleet was now the silent but none the less potent ally of the French and Indians in preventing their escape.

The sleet and hail thickened.

The guns took their toll, and where death from above missed, death from the level came in an unbroken torrent of bullets sleeting across the open from rifles and machine-guns.

It is sleeting and snowing outside.

"I am glad," the pastor once remarked to a friend, "when I get up Sunday morning and can look out of the window and see it snowing, sleeting, and raining, and hear the wind shriek and howl.

Then Winter comes, with tempest wild, Nature's boisterous, willful child, To bind the streams in icy chains, Drive sleet and snow across the plains; And howling through the wintry sky, The drifting winds shriek loud and high.

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.

A great roaring of wind and waters filled earth and sky, and peering under his hand through the dust and sleet to windward, he saw by the play of the lightnings a vast wall of water pouring towards him.

The ship rose and fell violently with the huge swells, and water that stung like an icy sleet swept over her continually.

A bitter wind from the north swept the Maryland hills; snow and rain and sleet fell, all together.

The snow and sleet were vigorously driven by the wind that howled continuously.

IV Waft me this verse across the winter sea, Through light and dark, through mist and blinding sleet, O winter winds, and lay it at his feet; Though the poor gift betray my poverty, At his feet lay it; it may chance that he Will find no gift, where reverence is, unmeet.