He stood aside, edged a little into the rainto let the throng pass.
Under the glass portcullis of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk.
Amory shouted on impulse, raising his voice above the noise of the rain and the wind.
There was a summer every rain was rare; There was a season every wind was warm.
The rain gave Amory a feeling of detachment, and the numerous unpleasant aspects of city life without money occurred to him in threatening procession.
They were sitting opposite each other in a slight hollow in the hay with the raincoat spread over most of them, and the rain doing for the rest.
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
A passing storm decided to break out, and to his great impatience the sky grew black as pitch and the rain began to splatter down through the trees, become suddenly furtive and ghostly.
One was past middle-age, heavily-built, and with a face bronzed as only years of exposure to wind and rain could bronze it.
The people who had leaped from their beds at sunrise, wearied at last by the emotions of the day and dampened by the finerain which had begun to fall, had gone to bed again.
The rain had ceased and a chill wind had arisen, but Crochard did not seem to feel it, as he walked slowly toward the quays, his head bent in thought.
As it was, they merely stamped with impatience and crowded closer to the door, for the rain was falling more heavily.
He shook the rain off like a burly water dog as he glanced in at the cabin window of the tug.
But daily, rain or shine, Mr. Randall Clayton himself took his way to the bank to deposit the funds to meet their never-ceasing outflow of Western exchange.
It was nine o'clock, the streets were dark and dismal, and a heavy rain was falling, when a carriage drew up before No.
Even as he spoke, the heavens blackened and a stormy drift of rain swept athwart the sky.
The wind swept fiercely by; the hawks whimpered from the high crags, lost in the darkness of the storm; and the rain fell, driving along icy cold.
The night was pitch dark, and the rain fell heavily; but the wind had considerably abated, and once they thought they heard a faint cry in answer to their call, far down the valley.
It was curious to observe the young children who had never seen rain in their lives, evince as much alarm as if some frightful accident had happened.
They endeavored to do this; but the darkness was now redoubled, and the wind and rain became more furious than ever.
The rain and the wind drove fiercely upon him, but he did not seem to mind it.
Cramps and rheumatisms she began to feel sensibly from so much exposure to rain and cold; but the never-varying and firm affection of her two children was a balm in her cup which made her contented with every thing else.
Close by is another contrivance for registering in decimals of an inch the quantity of rain that falls.
To add to their perplexity some drops of rain were felt.
All of them had collected in the pouring rain and were watching the outfall in the ditches.
The excuse of the rain was given and accepted; but Mrs. Broad felt convinced from Fanny's forward look that she had once more thrown herself in the way of her beloved child, her delicate Samuel.
The sprinkling rain does not dampen the ardor and enthusiasm of the true Englishman, for I am told that the races have never been postponed on account of the weather.
Large trees here protect Monnikendam from the heavy wind and rain storms which come from the Zuyder Zee, when old Neptune rises in one of his dreadful tantrums.
The rain was falling and interfered no doubt with the proper explosion of the fireworks.
The wind falls, therain slides silver down the glass.
Now, up to last night, we have had no rain for a week, so that those wheels which left such a deep impression must have been there during the night.
The whole place was very sloppy from the rain which had fallen through the night.
A rain-cloud which has fully discharged itsrain would no longer constitute a cloud--it would be dispersed and gone.
Not a pleasant journey, guv'nor, with the rain comin' down in torrents.
Rain was falling heavily, and there was no light in the sky.
It appeared to me a singular and unusual thing that it should be three o'clock; singular, also, that therain should have ceased, and that a fog was creeping over the streets.
The chief drawback is that at uncertain cycles there come incessant deluges of rain for months together, making it dreary and uncomfortable both in doors and out.
I have never seen such rain before; it is credited to the cannonading which for days past has been going on all around.
They do a heavy business in rain in that region, and in thunder and lightning, too.
The cool air passing through the gap, and our increasing elevation, now began to temper the heat, and soon the clouds began to gather again, and a slight rain fell.
After three miles' travel over these roads of nature's making, in a rain which at last became quite uncomfortable, we came finally to Oberlin Mission House.
The streams were so swollen by the rain that on coming to what is commonly a trifling rivulet, we found it so high as to cost us some trouble to cross.
There are two or three which have not even a spring, depending wholly upon rain water collected in tanks.
Every man, tired with the rapid walking through rain and mud, squatted at once in the road, no matter where, and then along the whole column singing began.
Here we repeated substantially the programme of the day before, except that continuous rain was substituted for the baking sun, and proved far more endurable.
Just as it was growing dark, the big Blue-gum said Suddenly, "It certainly looks more like rain than ever.
But on the evening of the third day the big Blue-gum said, "The rain will come to-night for certain.
But if thisrain doesn't stop soon, you'll cry the front path away.
Very late that night the rain eased a little and then stopped altogether.
Perhaps I'd have a parasol in case of rain or heat; But I wouldn't be a postman if .
But the rain did not come that night, nor the next day, nor for two days and nights.
Then he peered through the rain and the dark to see how the Little Red House was taking it.
Towards evening we passed the ruins of Fort Macdowal, which the Candians had entirely destroyed, and halted only when the darkness and rain prevented us from finding our way further.
They afford no defence against the weather, the rain penetrating the bags, and mildewing the rice.
But towards noon therain set in, and, as is usual in mountainous countries, the river became almost immediately too deep to be passed in that manner.
After two, the rain set in, and continued incessantly during the whole of the night.
With the man's big thumb in the mouth of the cheeld, while you was a-looking at him, sir; and the wind and the rain blowing furious.
Such fury of rain and thunder she had never heard.
But before he had even touched it he felt something fall upon his palm that was not rain or dew.
All of a sudden the light rain stopped and the moon came out of her cloud.
She put her face in her hands and wept like wild rain on the sea.
Presently, however, the dream was faintly shaken by a little lirrup of sound, as light as rain dropping from leaves above a pool.
And suddenly the woman broke into a rain of tears, and she sank into his arms with her own about his neck, and she wept upon his heart as though her own were breaking.
Only after getting soaking wet with the chilly raindid I shift my place.
Our guides hoped we should findrain water on the flat lands.
The rain poured in through the chinks of the roof, and it was difficult to find a hand-breadth of dry ground.
Luckily for us a heavy rain storm came up during the night, the rain descending in large drops, and towards morning we came to the extremest edge of the sand.
Violent gusts of wind shook our desolate abode, while the rain poured down in torrents and found entrance in various parts of our apartment.
There fell much rain the day before, which swelled the waters so that my wife and I became very thoughtful how I should get over the river to Newton, over which there is no bridge.
Rain water is used for drinking, and the method of preserving it is in a deep reservoir lined with boards and puddled with clay.
Darkness and rain coming on obliged them to halt for the night at Netphen, and seek shelter in the humble dwelling of a woman, who at first took alarm at the unexpected appearance of so many strangers.
The rain began to fall and the day was cold and dreary.
The day was drearier than ever; the rain was doggedly falling.
Late in the afternoon the rain stopped, and just afterwards there was a great flaming, flickering, trickling sunset.
Stephen took his place silently on the step below the group of students, heedless of the rain which fell fast, turning his eyes towards her from time to time.
The lovely smell there was in the wintry air: the smell of Clane: rain and wintry air and turf smouldering and corduroy.
A fine rain began to fall from the high veiled sky and they turned into the duke's lawn to reach the national library before the shower came.
The park trees were heavy with rain; and rain fell still and ever in the lake, lying grey like a shield.
It would be lovely to sleep for one night in that cottage before the fire of smoking turf, in the dark lit by the fire, in the warm dark, breathing the smell of the peasants, air and rain and turf and corduroy.
The rain had drawn off; and amid the moving vapours from point to point of light the city was spinning about herself a soft cocoon of yellowish haze.
That was a smell of air and rain and turf and corduroy.
But the trees in Stephen's Green were fragrant of rain and the rain-sodden earth gave forth its mortal odour, a faint incense rising upward through the mould from many hearts.
The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart.
Forty days and forty nights the rain would fall till the waters covered the face of the earth.
Rain was falling on the chapel, on the garden, on the college.
The heavy, regular-falling rain still rustled in the foliage without, in a dreamy, melancholy cadence.
The morning light already streamed into the room; without the rainrattled against the window panes.
The noise from without of the rain drops softly gliding down between the leaves, the blustering of the high swollen brook, mingled with the crackling and popping of the burning wood.
The sweep of rain through the air, the movement of figures and of draperies in the wind, the expression of human effort, how wonderfully he managed to suggest them all and to make them pictorial.
He might be a Blackfoot after a couple of days' tusselling with the wind and the rainin the mountains.
The design represents a number of these aquatic animals drawn in line across the diameter of the inner surface of the bowl, while on each side there is a row of rectangular blocks representing rain clouds.
These figures vividly recall the rain-cloud symbol with falling rain represented by the parallel lines.
On the body semicircular raincloud symbols and markings similar to those of the bodies of certain birds are distinguishable.
There was evidence, however, that this soil had been transported more or less by rain water, which often courses down the sides of the mesa in impetuous torrents.
Owing to this conflict only a little rain fell, but the land was fertile and fair harvests were still gathered.
A crook in the form of a staff to which an ear of corn and several feathers are attached is borne by katcinas or masked participants in certain rain dances.
It is built to the side of a perpendicular wall of rock which, high above its tallest walls, arches over it, sheltering the walls from rain or eroding influences.
