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Example sentences for "drenching rain"

  • During all this day, and the greater part of the night, we had the usual south-easter entertainment, a gale of wind, variegated and finally topped off with a drenching rain of three or four hours.

  • A drenching rain prevented my paying a second visit to the two hillocks where the fossil fragments were to be found, but I took the exact position of them, so that any further expedition could locate the spot with great ease.

  • We left that place on January 20th in drenching rain.

  • On January 26th I went on in a drenching rain, having changed my animals at that place for another lot of excellent mules.

  • During all this day, and the greater part of the night, we had the usual southeaster entertainment, a gale of wind, with occasional rain, and finally topped off with a drenching rain of three or four hours.

  • We had less snow and hail than when we were farther to the westward, but we had an abundance of what is worse to a sailor in cold weather,-- drenching rain.

  • We arrived at Columbia in a drenching rain, were taken out of the cars, and remained in a field near the depot until the next morning.

  • A drenching rain set in and without overcoats or blankets we remained shivering until morning.

  • We marched back to our old camp, packed up, and Monday morning, in a drenching rain, marched from Winn’s Mill to Yorktown.

  • The next morning, in a drenching rain, we started for Harrison’s Landing.

  • But I was tired and sick, and wet and sleepy, and did not at all relish the prospect of a night-march through the woods in a drenching rain.


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