We had now rain after such a drought as no man in England had known.
We had now plentiful rain after two years' excessive drought and severe winters.
It still continued so great a drought as had never been known in England, and it was said to be universal.
This season, after so long and extraordinary a drought in August and September, as if preparatory for the dreadful fire, was so very wet and rainy as many feared an ensuing famine.
There had been an excessively hot and dry spring, and such a drought still continued as never was in my memory.
Seasonable showers, after a continuance of excessive drought and heat.
To discern drought or moisture of the Air, see Hygroscope.
The roots should never be dry; cracking often follows rain just after a drought if the roots are dry.
The drought had been excessive; for three or four miles round very little rain had fallen, though in Le's own village the water-courses were all full.
However, cocoa production has substantially declined because of drought and mismanagement.
In recent years, drought and economic mismanagement have resulted in a substantial buildup of foreign debt.
Although drought has decreased agricultural activity over the past few years, completion of a major hydropower facility in January 1998 now permits the sale of water to South Africa and will support the economy's continued expansion.
Overgrazing, soil depletion, and drought persist as problems for the future.
I am searching for the cause of the great droughtwhich has been afflicting this country for the past two years.
In other words, the drought follows the normal air currents from this point.
We are seeking a means of ending the great drought which has ravaged the United States for the past two years.
Even a casual glance at the map will show you that the center of the drought area, from an intensity standpoint, lies in Maryland, a few miles south of here.
The areas of drought follow roughly the great waterways, the Ohio and the Potomac valleys being especially affected.
If something were to be added to the air which would tend to prevent rain, it would in time drift, just as the drought areas have drifted.
Drought killed the crops, prairie fires burned the hay, of course the cattle starved.
Isn't it strange that in the latitude of New York this drought should be expected every spring?
The weather is like our hot July, except that it is drier than the August drought on Long Island.
Numerous tributaries of the Shari flow through the country, but much of the water is absorbed by swamps and sand-obstructed channels, and seasons of drought are recurrent.
Thus if the southern side flowered first drought was to be expected, and vice versa.
The hot-dry season had set in with a heat and a drought unknown for years; the climate was exceptionally trying, and all experts predicted early and violent rains.
The drought was to him as serious a matter as death in the house, and as little to be forgotten for a lengthened period.
Serious as his talk had been it was neither of drought nor of the incident at the Spittal that I sat down to think.
I would swap the drought for rain, though it comes down in a sheet as in the year twelve.
A summer of unusual splendour had passed unblessed away, for the sustained drought represented scanty hay and an aftermath of meagre description.
Time progressed; the leaf fell and the long drought was followed by a mild autumn of heavy rains.
Water your olive trees well around the roots, Melampos," it said, "for there is a season of drought approaching.
Last year a dreadful drought occurred, in which the ponds and tanks dried up, to the great terror of the people.
Just one hundred years ago, when this bird flew and uttered its cry, there was a famine and drought and disease, and many people died.
When they appear there will be great droughtin the city.
His surprise was all the more because the three months' drought had that afternoon been broken, and the rain was now driving down in gusts and there was a far rumbling of thunder that threatened a nearer and a fiercer cannonading.
But in seasons of drought or when their little crops have, for any cause, failed, there is sometimes great distress in the villages.
A drought had parched the grass, so that in many places where the previous year several tons of good hay to an acre had been raised there was not now "pasturage for a horse.
These Indians are industrious, attend faithfully to their crops, and even put in a second crop when the first, as frequently happens, is destroyed by drought or frost.
People occasionally burned incense there to avert drought and get enough water for irrigating their fields.
Three years of drought showed who commands the clouds, and then came Elijah's challenge to the four hundred prophets of Baal, to prove who was the God who could send fire from Heaven!
Even when Aurelius's army was suffering from a terrible drought in an expedition to Germany, a legion who were nearly all Christians, prayed aloud for rain, a shower descended in floods of refreshment.
There is no species of animal which is not exposed to destruction through various accidental agencies—by hunger or cold, by drought or flood, by epidemics, or by enemies, whether beasts of prey or parasites.
Natural selection first operates among the offspring, and the egg with a shell incapable of resisting cold or drought is destroyed.
