The Emperor on horseback under a hailstorm of shot and shell and bullets riding from end to end of his lines!
On the night of the 2nd of May, a terrible hailstorm burst over the district, destroying not only the growing crops but even playing havoc within the walls.
In 1881, a terrific hailstorm swept over mountain and plain; the stream became a roaring torrent and annihilated nearly the whole town--the number of killed and drowned being estimated at a thousand souls.
Two or three others did the same and, mounting, galloped off into the darkness, a hailstorm of bullets in their wake.
The hailstorm of grape and canister was murderous, and, there being no shelter for them, the Austrians first wavered and then incontinently took to flight.
He buries them in a spot beside his hearth, and it is believed that when a hailstorm threatens the grains move about and give out a humming sound like water boiling.
When the sky is of mixed red and black at night like smoke and flame, the Garpagari knows that a hailstorm is coming.
The grandmother said, "We are going to be destroyed with a hailstorm of spears.
Nature is constantly struggling to find an equilibrium of her forces, and a hailstorm is only one of the little domestic flurries that take place when she is setting her house to rights.
Indeed I have seen this happen in a bad hailstorm in Natal which killed my best horse.
Understanding that it was quite useless to pursue this subject farther at the moment, I turned to another, remarking that the hailstorm which had smitten the country of the Black Kendah was the worst that I had ever experienced.
I stared at him, but as he chose to believe that a very unusual hailstorm was a visitation from heaven I did not think it worth while arguing the point.
They ceased; all was still for a few seconds, and then a hailstorm of bullets tore through our ranks, and the valley rang again with the roar of musketry.
These were now coming on at a rush, a rush through the hailstorm whose every shower meant disaster.
Something had given way, and debris and shrapnel scattered like a hailstormacross the dining-room floor overhead.
But during the day, orders or no orders, it has become rash for the enemy to expose himself to our view; and even the fleeting glimpse of a moving hand is made the excuse for a hailstorm of fire.
MAY 27—The famous Worcester hailstorm happened this day.
JUNE 13—A very violent hailstorm raged chiefly in the northern part of the county.
But one night in Buxa, while we were at dinner, a hailstorm rattled on the roof of the bungalow; and I really believe that if this had not been made of thick sheets of iron it would have been drilled through.
Sometimes a hailstorm ruins the year's crop, frost blights the plants, and losses occur in other ways.
Once she brought a hailstorm upon us, and God's thunderbolt smote the village in three places.
About one hundred horsemen pursued me, the darts fell like a hailstorm on my shield; but my good horse, well aware of the danger, redoubled his speed, and so the pursuers lost trace of me.
Many people who have not encountered the big hailstorm regard it with the cheerful scepticism with which they view the sea serpent and the abnormal gooseberry.
Most people will remember the damage caused by a hailstorm in Essex last year, when several farms and homesteads were utterly wrecked, and great numbers of cattle killed.
He rode out amidst the hailstorm of shot and shell to see if there was a way by which they could be withdrawn to the British lines, and having discovered a road, walked his horse back so that his men might not think the risk too great.
Despite a hailstorm of lead, the Hussars dashed forward, killed or drove off the Germans, and seized their guns.
The hounds came to a check, and a hailstorm came on, and all the gentlemen went into a little shebeen house for shelter.
The whole conversation is therefore a hailstorm of short stories, quips, and retorts, intermingled with details of successful bar-stratagems, and practical jokes played off upon juries.
He tried to make something of these, and fortified the seminary, which the Federals, under a hailstorm of shells, were unable to hold.
The garrison grew alarmed, and these Federals, who had cheerfully withstood a hailstorm of shells, took fright at a few skirmishers.
Though very violent, this hailstorm did not last more than ten minutes, in which time an incalculable amount of destruction took place.
A terrible hailstorm which took place some time ago will always be remembered by its spectators.
Amid a hailstorm of bullets he charged through the half-company there posted, and then, turning about, charged back again, completing the work of destruction and dispersal.
The bushes were mown down as with a scythe, and it seemed impossible to the two women that any human being should survive the iron hailstorm for a single minute.
A perfect hailstorm of shrapnel descended upon the stony slopes, yet, as was afterwards discovered, with but inconsiderable effect.
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