1.   It has been slept on for almost a month, even though snow has come and, with it, serious winter.

2.   The snow had come again, its veil dropping between Gentle and Pie.

3.   The first snow came a month earlier than usual.

4.   The snow came down hard.

5.   Back in Boston, though, city officials almost seemed to regret that the snow never came.

6.   A great snow came.

7.   Acting like an annoying and unwanted visitor, the snow came early, got in the way, stole most of the attention and never left.

8.   But the snow came in bursts and was often melting as it fell.

9.   But the snow did come late Monday night and into Tuesday evening, heavier and more troublesome in some places than in others.

10.   But with a chanting, singing crowd already on hand Sunday, the snow came down thicker and thicker.