Crossword-Solution: SLEETS 6 letters, 113 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Now in the hearth he sits and, drowned Among the ashes, blows; Or through the room goes stealing round On cautious-creeping toes, Deep-mantled in the drowsy sound Of night that sleets and snows.

The muse must have been strong within him, when, in spite of the rains and sleets of the "ever-dropping west"--when in defiance of the hot and sweaty brows occasioned by reaping and thrashing--declining markets, and showery harvests--the clamour of his laird for his rent, and the tradesman for his account, he persevered in song, and sought solace in verse, when all other solace was denied him.

Spare my luve, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets and beating rain! Spare my luve, thou feathery snaw, Drifting o'er the frozen plain.

Now was a stunted ash, now a rowan-tree with its red berries--_crann caorthainn_ they call it in Gaidhlig,--and now was a holly bush would have red berries when all the bitter fruit of the rowan-tree was gone and the rolling sleets of winter came over Antrim like a shroud.

Stinging sleets, biting winds, desperately fatigued horses, valiant and persistent battles with snow drifts, icy cold temperatures and everything pertaining to heroism in the Arctics were there.