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Example sentences for "rain fell"

  • The day was very sultry, and although no rain fell near us, it was evident that other parts to the north-east were receiving a heavy shower.

  • The sky was overcast with thunder-clouds in the afternoon, and the mercurial column was low; but no rain fell, and a clear starry sky, at 9 P.

  • Towards evening the sky was overcast, and a few drops of rain fell.

  • Rain fell around it; filth accumulated about, and the gutters of the yard ran down and filtered through its sides.

  • Although it was in the rainy season no rain fell, a fact for which Gilliatt felt thankful.

  • A flash of lightning gave the signal; the livid opening in the zenith closed; a driving torrent of rain fell; then all became dark, save where the lightnings broke forth once more.

  • In less than one hour after the rain fell, the clay taken six inches from the top of the keg would crumble by rubbing in the hand.

  • No rain fell in sufficient quantity to enter the ground.

  • Rain fell, and enough water was collected for three days.

  • On 41 days, more than an inch of rain fell.

  • Santa Anna; whilst at Ugi on the same day only an inch and a half of rain fell, a circumstance showing how confined in their areas some heavy rainfalls may be.

  • In the morning of the 7th some drops of rain fell, but the weather cleared up during the day; wind easterly.

  • We had a thunder-storm on the 21st November, followed by continued rain and a perfect calm During the night occasional showers of rain fell; at sunrise light fleecy clouds from W.

  • The night set in very dark and windy, but no rain fell.

  • The scud was rapidly passing the moon, and I watched for hours the clouds gathering to the south and passing to the north, but no rain fell.

  • We had thunder towards evening, and a few dops of rain fell, but not sufficient to moderate the temperature, the heat continuing as oppressive as before.

  • Towards morning several showers of rain fell, and I found that I had got a severe attack of rheumatism, which proved both troublesome and painful.

  • On the 27th we had thunder, but no rain fell, and the heat seemed rather to increase than to decrease.

  • About this time the weather was exceedingly oppressive, and heavy thunder-clouds hung about, but no rain fell.

  • On the 4th the wind blew strong from the south; but although the air was cooled, no rain fell, nor indeed was there any likelihood of rain with the wind in that quarter.

  • Mount Serle ranges, but still no rain fell on the depressed and devoted region in which we were.

  • Rain fell in torrents, so that the bivouacs became a sea of mud, and the soldiers, lying out in the open, were drenched to the skin.

  • In 1834 rain fell | copiously in Kach; grain was sown and came up well; but | locusts appeared and destroyed all the crops and grass as | well as the trees.

  • It is | said that not a single shower of rain fell in Ajmir in | 1832.

  • No rain fell in the provinces about Delhi, and there | was in consequence a most terrible famine.

  • Rain fell in torrents, and the wind howled ceaselessly as on and on the men trudged.

  • Rain fell in torrents, a raging wind tore through the tree tops, thunder and lightning added their terrors to the scene.

  • Rain fell in torrents, and the army floundered through seas of mud.

  • No rain fell to-day for a wonder, but the lower tier of clouds still drifts past from N.

  • Thunder began, and a few drops of rain fell.

  • Thunder all the morning, and a few drops of rain fell.

  • In Great Britain, if an inch of rain fell in a day it was considered a heavy rain; but in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland three inches not infrequently fall in one day.

  • Once in the isle of Skye twelve inches of rain fell in thirteen hours, and rainfalls of five and seven inches are not uncommon.

  • The dawn was breaking quietly, for now no wind stirred, and no rain fell.

  • Meanwhile gust succeeded gust, until a tempest of screaming wind swept over them, though no rain fell.

  • They led her to a little cave in the slope of the opposing hill, for although no rain fell, the gathered storm was breaking; the lightning flashed thick and fast, the thunder groaned and bellowed, and a wild wind beat the screeching trees.

  • Rain fell at times, but not heavily at first, and a thirsty world drank open-mouthed through deep sun-cracks in field and moor and dried-up marsh.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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