It wasn't big, soft flakes drifting out of the sky; these were small, hard pellets of ice that the wind drove straight at him.

Rabbits will drop both hard and soft fecal pellets.

A hard heavy pellet struck his cheek, where it clung and bit.

Outside, a howling wind raked hard pellets of frozen snow against the windows in the terminal.

It was a hard pellet of decision in the centre of my chest, and it drove me forward, hands raised.

It is thinning now and there are small, hard pellets.

At night, when the rabbit is active, hard pellets are deposited.

The words emerged from his mouth like hard, dry pellets.

But he was speaking now, the words dropping like hard pellets into her mind.

A few hard pellets marked the droppings of a small rodent, perhaps a kangaroo rat.