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  • Sleet is rain that turns to ice pellets BEFORE hitting the ground.

    Usefully Useless Trivia

  • Sleet occurs when the snowflake almost completely melts and then falls back into a below freezing layer.

    Why was there ice before snow Tues. night?

  • "What glory?" growled Keris, certain that this dragon called Sleet was trying to trick him.

    Father Swarat

  • "What glory?" growled Keris, certain that this dragon called Sleet was trying to trick him.

    The Dragons of Chaos

  • A vibrant small collage of Sleet, "Profile/Part I, The Twenties: Mecklenburg County, Maudell Sleet's Magic Garden" 1978, shows a kneeling woman in a blue dress and straw sunhat tending to her overgrown, brilliantly hued flowerbed.

    Impressionistic Memories

  • Beloved neighborhood characters, such as Maudell Sleet and Madeleine Jones, are actually composite figures from Bearden's oldest memories of Charlotte.

    Impressionistic Memories

  • Sleet and freezing rain will also add to the misery.

    Winter storm to pound South; Northeast up next

  • What's more, we will shortly be presenting "Fire and Sleet," which follows directly on the events of "A Book of Silences" and is an original novelette that will debut at the Pyr website for the first time anywhere.

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • What's more, we will shortly be presenting "Fire and Sleet," which follows directly on the events of "A Book of Silences" and is an original novelette that will debut at the Pyr website for the first time anywhere.

    Free Fiction: "A Book of Silences" by James Enge

  • Bearden painted Sleet differently every time: "I've done her about two or three times," he once said, "and each time the facial characteristics are different: I wouldn't recognize her as the same woman one for the other, but it's alright for my memory, because I'm recalling this thing."

    Impressionistic Memories

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