snow grains

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precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1960–65

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
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I try to eat less processed food, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nothing over-processed.
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But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
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There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
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“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
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But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
"It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various