Friday and Saturday it rained incessantly in torrents, and raised Fishing Creek and other streams so that it was impracticable to cross them.
Their uniforms were wet through; for it had rained all the afternoon and evening, and the tender had considerable water in her bottom.
It hasrained like Niagery for two days, and it has been doin' not quite so bad all this afternoon.
The French at once abandoned it, but the Grenadiers had no sooner poured into it, than a storm of bullets rained down upon them, from the troops who lined the heights above.
At this extempore invention, the delighted parent rained so many blessings on his progeny, that John knew the tide was turned at once.
For them Zeus brought a yellow cloud into the sky and rained much gold upon the land; and Glaukopis herself gave them to excel the dwellers upon earth in every art of handicraft.
And when these signs appear amongst you, anticipate the day when the red-hot wind will have swept over you, or the day when ye will have been disfigured, or when stones will have rainedupon you.
Mine eyes have rained down tears until My bed is drenched.
Now, some eighteen hours later, he wished to know if it never rained at Almy, and there was no white man could tell him.
There was a boardwalk of creaking pine, leading across the shallow ravine, for it sometimes rained up here in the mountains, though it never seemed to in the deep, arid valleys to the east.
And still the shafts raineddown on that throng from the Bent of the Bowmen, for another two score men of the Woodlanders had crept down the hill to them, and shafts failed them not.
It rained in torrents during the night of the 13th and the fore part of the day of the 14th.
The night was dark, it rained heavily, and the road was difficult, so that it was midnight when he reached the point where he was to halt.
The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.
According to tradition, this was to have been done on the 15th of July; but it rained so violently for forty days that the design was abandoned.
The first rain that had fallen during that year was on the 17th of May, when it rained lightly for about five hours.
And Arthur Mason, coming out of Shropshire, reports, that it hath rained the like in many places of that county.
On Saturday last, it was rumoured in this town, that it rained wheat at Tuchbrooke, a village about two miles from Warwick.
The day was the worst possible for our purpose, as it rained hard; and was so very foggy that we could not see the Peak, or indeed any object beyond one hundred yards distant.
On the latter day it rained heavily, commenced at five in the morning, and continued pretty steadily throughout the day.
It rained so heavily last evening that the syrens stayed at home.
And to do this, it rained for forty days and forty nights.
But if the water that covered the earth above the tops of the highest mountains came by rain, it must have rained seven hundred feet a day for forty days!
I may safely assert," said the Minister, "that the highest and sweetest of all the blessings God his poured upon me, have rained down in storms of affliction.
He rained kisses on brow and cheek and lips; her sigh was a breath of perfume.
It was well they were under shelter, for it rained all the next day.
If it rained the next or for a week nothing would happen, but the moment the sun came out and dried the moisture, the light step of a cat on any pavement over which I had passed would instantly shatter to ruins the whole of Paris.
She heard him turn away, heard him cross the floor, knew he paused upon the threshold, and still her eye-lids never opened, though the hot tears rained over her face in torrents.
I tell you, you ought to have come if it rainedknives and forks.
John was ready to go to Burghley Hall the next morning; but it rained heavily, and the cobbler had not returned the shoes entrusted to him for mending.
It still rained heavily, and Clare took refuge in a covered yard attached to an inn.
It rained as though the floodgates of heaven had been opened and got rusted fast.
We had to wait on the shore a bit, and it rained and was so dark you could only see the mud under foot and the great cold water beyond.
It rained hard," she said afterwards, "that night, when I left Coldwater.
Outside it rained and the lightning flashed, but within I seemed to hear music and to see a smile on the pallid face of the dead.
She smiled, and when her aunt snatched her from that position she unconsciously threw her arms around the old lady's neck and rained kisses upon her.
Blow after blow was then rained upon the heel of the mast, all working with fresh courage and determination as the ponderous piece of timber gave way before their efforts, a wide gaping hole having been now made in it by the axe.
I was under the necessity therefore to leave him, and was forced to go on foot for seven days, during which it rained almost incessantly, and I suffered great fatigue.
It was gray and dark, and it rained all the time, and the sea slunk about in the distance like some baffled beast.
Bearskin THERE was once a young fellow who enlisted as a soldier, conducted himself bravely, and was always the foremost when it rained bullets.
It rained still harder and harder, till at last it came down in torrents; but he only flourished his sword faster and faster, and remained as dry as if he were sitting in a house.
When he had need of gold, he had only to say "Bricklebrit" to his ass, and it rained gold pieces, and he had nothing to do but pick them off the ground.
The stranger spread out the cloth under the animal and cried, "Bricklebrit," and immediately the beast began to let gold pieces fall, so that it fairly rained down money on the ground.
They walked the whole day over meadows, fields, and stony places; and when it rained the little sister said, "Heaven and our hearts are weeping together.
He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea" (Ps.
It rained in torrents, and this probably made it look more dismal than usual, but it certainly is much less picturesque and more English-looking than any town we have yet seen.
This morning the fine weather we had hitherto enjoyed began to fail us, as it rained in torrents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
