1 But a wet snow, melting to sleet, had fallen in the night and turned the roads to glass.
2 The fitful bursts of sleet had changed into a steady rain and the horses had heavy work even without a load behind them.
3 And the convicts had marched out too, to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.
4 She felt that he was a bulwark between her and the darkness that grew thicker as the delayed storm came down in sleet.
5 Three days later they reached Gopher Prairie in a sleet storm.
6 The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.
7 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.
8 A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back.
9 I was often out in cold, rain, and sleet, but nobody took much note of me after I had been out a few times.
10 In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow.
11 The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February.
12 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.
13 Then, when the sleets of March were keeping everyone indoors, the hideous blow fell.
14 It sleeted the next day, but as the wintry twilight drew on the icy particles stopped falling and a cold wind blew.