For the reason of pelting rain and driving winds I was forced to give up my intention of going across by car to Kenmare, and from thence to Skibbereen, and took the train for Cork.
Sure they would have perished with the cowld and the wet among the pelting of the snow and the sleet.
In a pelting rain we steamed into Killarney, passed through the army of cabmen and their allies and were whirled away to Lakeview House on the banks of the lower Killarney lake, a pretty place standing in its own grounds.
Youths and girls with streaming hairPelting the night with flowers: Yellow blooms of Adonis, white scented stars of pale Narcissus, Mad incense of the blooming vine, And carmine passion of pomegranate blooms.
Dazed and suffering as he was, he was conscious of the rain pelting on the roof above him and sounding more audibly than outside where the boisterous river drowned the sound of the downpour.
For a brief moment he had wild thoughts of trying to persuade Tom that this would prove a blessing as a hat, shedding the pelting Alsatian rains like a church steeple.
I remained all the time on deck, exposed to the scorching sun, by turns, and the pelting rain.
The fastenings on one side at length gave out, and as it flapped its wet and clinging folds about our faces, we expected every moment to hear it fly bodily away, leaving us entirely exposed to the pelting of the pitiless storm.
They scrambled desperately upwards through the pelting storm of lead, guided by the flashes from the muzzles of the Turkish rifles.
Among the leaders were Ken and Dave, who struggled along, side by side, still untouched amid the pelting storm of lead.
But, amid the hollow roaring of the wind, and the incessant pelting of the storm, it was neither safe nor practicable to venture far asunder.
The movement was now faster, though embarrassed and difficult on account of the incessant pelting of the storm and the influence of the biting cold, which were difficult to be withstood by even the strongest of the party.
Misfortune Number 2 lay in the fact that the 'busman did not meet the train the ladies were coming by, so for two long Scotch miles they had to paddle on as best they could through pelting rain and blackest mud.
Illustration] While being actively engaged upon the river bank, our own artillery had come up, and commenced pelting at the rebs in glorious style.
But if the gold-seekers had hoped to escape the peltingof the frozen globules they were mistaken.
The cessation from the deafening sound of the pelting hailstones seemed curious to them at first.
Each word smote like pelting hailstones, and he saw all her loathing printed on her face.
The discursiveness with which topics succeed each other, their want of logic or continuity, and the pelting fire of quotations in prose and verse, make a strange mixture.
I replied that that would be impossible while she was exposed to so pelting a storm, and that neither the wetting nor cold would have any effect on me.
Madam Clough had wished to go, but she dreaded thepelting storm.
He might have been aware that some of his boys had been out pelting the Spaniards with snow-balls; but the crime, perchance, was not a great one in his eyes.
Young men and young ladies adopted the novel method of flirting by vigorously pelting each other, and wicked men would quietly and furtively slip a handful of confetti down a woman’s open neck.
Returning, we got on board just in time to escape, under cover of its awning, a thunder–shower which came pelting down very heavily, and lasted all the time we were on board.
We reached the Lofuko yesterday in a pelting rain; not knowing that the camp with huts was near, I stopped and put on a bernouse, got wet, and had no dry clothes.
When the good wife of the place came she gave us all huts, which saved us from a pelting shower.
It is pelting furiously; Pickle and Knudsen, with the intrenching tools which luckily were served out to us this afternoon, are digging frantically to keep the water away from their suit-cases.
For the second time this afternoon we are shut up in the dark tent, everyone having fled before a pelting shower.
The wind howled fearfully as it swept over the cliff and along the ice-foot in our rear, pelting us incessantly with its snow sand.
A storm, with a bitter, pelting snow-drift, confined them awhile.
A benighted team swings recklessly around the corner, sharp under my rattling window panes, the staccato pelting of hoofs on the cobblestones changed suddenly to an even pounding on the bridge.
I returned promptly to my playmates in the street, who were amusing themselves, according to the custom on that sad anniversary, by pelting each other with burrs.
We may be out for three or four hours, pelting like mad all the time.
After receiving it from the cautious banker, we went straight to Rose Lodge, pelting back from St. Ann's at a fine pace.
A peasant sitting on a pile of stones saw an ostrich approaching, and when it had got within range he began pelting it.
He went away in mournful silence, and began pelting a blind beggar with coppers.
With the rain pelting down unceasingly, the two cars proceeded on the journey.
We can put the chains on there," answered Dunston Porter, and they started forward once again, with the rain pelting down upon them furiously.
Very innocently, I gave up a pair of old wool ones that I happened to have with me; and soon, very soon, a regular systematized pelting commenced of that reverend representation in its recess.
But the third day, a Friday, a peltingfine rain set in that made an airing on the deck out of the question, not for the baby alone, but for a well-grown boy and girl.
The rain, pelting on his cheeks and forehead, half blinded him, and the faces of the men, seen fitfully beneath the flaring light of the lantern at the gangway, looked strange to him.
They take a fiendish delight in torturing us with tantrums, galling us with gammon, and pelting us with platitudes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pelting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blinding; driving; drumming; misty; pouring; rainy; streaming
