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1. ” As we moved north the weather became colder and there was sleet and snow flying about outside, and the wagon doors were closed most of the time now as we huddled together inside to keep warm
2. Colling’s face was numb from the cold, and initially he thought that the stinging pain he felt on the right side of his face was caused by sleet mixed with the spray from the sea
3. As she opened her eyes, she saw the green circle had vanished and the snow which had been falling for hour-cycles had now turned to sleet
4. The bravery and hazards associated with Coast Guard search and rescue (SAR) operations is well documented in the treacherous waters, rain and snow, sleet, fog and storms so characteristic of the north Pacific-Alaskan coast (Walker, pp
5. Sleet, snow, 10 foot waves, and frigid waters did not prevent Chief Habel and his team from rescuing four members of a stranded tugboat crew (“Heroes
6. the sleet mixture that continued to fall
7. Despite my reservations it appeared to work; guests who arrived irritable, pinched and nervous, perked up remarkably; although it’s just as likely their sudden rush of bonhomie was relief at entering a warm house after trudging through freezing sleet
8. Sleet was falling as I passed the fairytale towers of Balmoral Castle, and snow set in an hour later
9. Despite it being a bitterly cold day with showers of sleet, a whole group of children dressed in their winter woolly’s assembled at the green area at that end of the park displaying and playing with their toys
10. All four were starting to feel the sleet through their clothes
11. Gales blew, rain, sleet, snow, hail and thunder tried to bring him down, but still Simian remained vertiginously defiant
12. figure standing on the snow and sleet crested sidewalk out ahead of me
13. sleet that had fallen over the past three days
14. The rain and sleet
15. The sleet had turned into rain and he shuddered when icy rivulets of water trickled underneath his collar
16. It was in November that we were there, and we splashed about in a raw, wet cold,--rain on the verge of sleet and snow, a bitter wind at the corners, the omnibuses all full (we could not afford the dearer and more respectable tram), and everybody we met had an unkind strange face that stared at us, in spite of hurry and umbrellas, with a thoroughness and comprehensiveness that must be peculiar to Berlin
17. Neither wind nor rain, neither snow nor sleet, neither the fear that stalks by night nor the terror that walks by noonday was enough to stop this wonderful work from taking its place upon the prairie
18. She only cried once, but then it was February and enough to make anybody cry, with the sleet stinging the windows and the wind howling round the dark little house
19. ready, they stood together before the window in silence, watching the sleet
20. As night came and the rain turned to sleet and then to snow, the temperature had dropped to minus fifteen degrees
21. It could be more sleet was on the way
22. The third season, with its erratic fits and fickle moods brought, nevertheless, an inevitable descent, a deterioration, albeit gradual, from sun and cloud to rain and sleet and from sleet to freezing snow
23. At eight o'clock of every morning that God made, sleet or shine, I walked up Florian Street
24. ' He quotes the words of the Republic in which the philosopher is described 'standing out of the way under a wall until the driving storm of sleet and rain be overpast,' which admit of a singular application to More's own fate; although, writing twenty years before (about the year 1514), he can hardly be supposed to have foreseen this
25. In the evening, the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow
26. He is like one who, in the storm of dust and sleet which the driving wind hurries along, retires under the shelter of a wall; and seeing the rest of mankind full of wickedness, he is content, if only he can live his own life and be pure from evil or unrighteousness, and depart in peace and good-will, with bright hopes
27. I was often out in cold, rain, and sleet, but nobody took much note of me after I had been out a few times
28. shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon
29. The sky drops silver threads of sleet
30. Here we stand in the cold and the sleet, Blowing fingers and stamping feet, Come from far away you to greet—You by the fire and we in the street—Bidding you joy in the morning!
31. Sleet was falling over Omori as February 16 dawned
32. to hungry bivouacs in the snow, to pain and hardship and to the risk of all the bright Now Ashley was going away, back to Virginia, back to the long marches in the sleet, beauty of his golden head and proud slender body being blotted out in an instant, like an ant beneath a careless heel
33. Again she felt the wild terror of those days, heard the siege guns, saw the line of wagons dripping blood into the red roads, saw the Home Guard marching off, the little cadets and the children like Phil Meade and the old men like Uncle Henry and Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee
34. ‘Of course it’s unreasonable, you xenophobic gnome,’ Thaniel said, laughing to cover the disappointment that had settled over his thoughts like sleet
35. Grace unbuttoned her coat as she came into the hospital’s wide foyer again, chased by a spray of sleet and grateful for the clinical quiet
36. The weather had turned while he was in the timeless silence of the Bodleian building; overhead, the clouds were flat and low, and the rain had turned to spits of sleet
37. At least that meant being taken inside a tent and out of the sleet; it felt like luxury, and as Jess sank down on the tarpaulin-covered ground he began to realise just how cold he really was
38. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow
39. rolled down “ing” and holm till they blended with the frozen fog of the beck! That beck itself was then a torrent, turbid and curbless: it tore asunder the wood, and sent a raving sound through the air, often thickened with wild rain or whirling sleet; and for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeletons
40. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist
41. 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
42. When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed
43. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post
44. In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled "A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented CROW'S-NEST of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's good craft
45. When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing
46. Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand
47. But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float
48. So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together
49. Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat
50. In the grave, sleet, filth, wet snow--no need to put themselves out for you--'Let her down, Vanuha; it's just like her luck--even here, she is head-foremost, the hussy
1. that he was, could sit on a mountain side and wait for the chill winds and sleets of
2. Why did he accept even that hand, when all he wanted to do was die? Surely even he, wastrel and inconstant fool that he was, could sit on a mountain side and wait for the chill winds and sleets of winter to come and take him? He didn’t have to do anything, he thought
3. Melanie, her eyes shining with joy, her head ducked with embarrassed pride, told her Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell
