sleety

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At Murfreesboro' the division of Rousseau was reenforced and strengthened up to about eight thousand men At that time the weather was cold and sleety, the ground was covered with ice and snow, and both parties for a time rested on the defensive.

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  1. Consisting of sleet; characterized by sleet. The sleety storm returning still, The morning hoar, and evening chill. T. Warton, Odes, x.

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  • They wiped their still-sleety shoes on the mat and peered inquiringly around the deserted office. —  AHMM,January-February2008
  • The north of England will be very sleety, too, and squally winds will not be surprising, either —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • "The north of England will be very sleety, too, and squally winds will not be surprising, either." —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • Indeed, the weather--sleety, rainy, stormy--forms no tempting prospect. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
  • When the casement rattles in the gust and the snowflakes or the sleety raindrops pelt hard against the window-panes, then I spread out my sheet of paper with the certainty that thoughts and fancies will gleam forth upon it like stars at twilight or like violets in May, perhaps to fade as soon. —  Twice Told Tales
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