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  • The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

    War   Holiday   Storm  
    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

    Rain   Night   Snow  
    Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford
  • So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

    Nursery   Cheat   Conceit  
    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.126, Macmillan
  • I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

    Rain   Book   Dark  
    Charles Dickens (2015). “The Long Voyage”, p.3, Booklassic
  • Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

    Rain   Shoes   Feet  
    John Gay, Vinton Adams Dearing (1975). “Poetry and prose of John Gay”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.

    Rain   Rap   Blow  
  • I see my way as birds their trackless way. 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. In his good time.

    Time   Fire   Snow  
    Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.129, e-artnow sro
  • He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

    Time   Bird   Guides  
    Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.129, e-artnow sro
  • January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

    Sweet   Spring   Ice  
  • If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

  • A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

    Rain   Thinking   Snow  
  • I'm still dominant and that's what matters, ... But rain, snow, sleet, it doesn't matter. I'm going to go out and try and win a gold medal.

  • No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

    Rain   Golf   Wind  
  • Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

    Fire   December   Chill  
    Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.8
  • To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

    Failure   Sleep   Men  
  • I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

    Drinking   Believe   Dark  
    T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.185, Penguin
  • Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

    Inspiration   Light   Dna  
  • When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

    Husband   Dark   Night  
    Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group
  • Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

    "Annie of Tharaw" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
  • For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

    Ice   Wind   Storm  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2572, Bantam
  • There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

    Horse   War   Snow  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

    Rain   Snow   Dresses  
    Gayle Forman (2015). “I Was Here”, p.177, Penguin
  • I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

    Love   Rain   Kissing  
    Song: Recitation
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