It was that season when the rains were at their heaviest, when rust and rot might be felt by the fingers.
It was the change of the seasons, before the rains had come; the air was close; the ship reeked with odors.
It was that breathless, overpowering period between the seasons when the trades were fitful, before the rains had come.
We'll have cholera, sure as a gun, when theRains break.
Cockran, this time, from the Ganges Canal: 'Heavy rains here.
They are glad, now that the rains are over, to revisit their young brood and their dear nests.
The buffaloes come to feed on this grass, when the rains drive them out of the plains; otherwise they go but little thither, because they find there neither water, nor saltpetre.
However, several French were allured to this Spanish settlement, doubtless imagining, that the rains which come from Mexico, rolled and brought gold along with them, which would cost nothing but the trouble of picking up.
Footnote: This river, which they call Mobile, and which after the rains of winter is a fine river in spring, is but a brook in summer, especially towards its source.
Very, very far away, there was a faint whisper, which was the roar of the Rainsbreaking over the river.
The slats of these shutters can be set open as much as one likes, or closed tightly when the heavy rains come.
The autumn rains are very heavy, and Manuel and Dolores spend much time in the house or on the verandas.
All of a sudden severe rains set in; the country was flooded, and the soft soil became actually impassable.
General Washington writes me word that the great rains had prevented the continuance of their labors on the Potomac, so that they should not be able to bring the navigation this winter to the great falls as he had hoped.
The mountains rose abruptly upon either side, and a dry ravine above the rocks upon which we stood exhibited the natural channel by which in heavy rains the surface-water would be conducted to the lower stream-bed.
In heavy rains the valley became a temporary swamp, and it seemed unaccountable that human beings endowed with common sense should have selected the low ground instead of the immediate heights.
The surface of these table-heights is hard for a depth of about six feet, forming an upper stratum of rock which can be used for building; beneath this are marls and friable cretaceous stone, which during rains are washed away.
The Peabody fund has distilled the dews of heaven all over the South; but heavy rains are needed; without them every green thing must wither away.
A road of red clay soft from the rains stretched before them.
Why, that river is swollen by the rainsso much that it's a hard job to cross it if no enemy were on the other side.
It is now exceptionally cold for the season in this latitude; the fall rains may set in any time.
Andre's son declared it foretold long coldrains followed by sharp frost.
In these three months, it rains every day more or less, and sometimes for a whole quarter of the moon without intermission.
These violent rains are ushered in, and take their leave, by most fearful tempests of thunder and lightning, more terrible than I can express, but which seldom do any harm.
At Surat, and thence to Agra and beyond, it only rains during one season of the year, which begins when the sun comes to the northern tropic, and continues till he returns again to the line.
The stormy season had set in, and rains and gales of wind might be expected.
If you were to see it in winter, just after the rains are over, you would speak very differently of it," observed Mr Martin, who had been there before.
The annual overflow of the Nile is now well known to proceed from the heavy periodical rainswithin the tropics.
In the tropical countries of South America, the seasonal rains are, perhaps, more intensely copious than in any other part of the torrid zone, and the floods of its rivers are of corresponding magnitude.
The air of the tropics being thus renewed, the rains cease, the vapors are dissolved, and the sky resumes its azure tint.
Not since the beginning of the rains had it shown such open stretches.
It was well, too, that he gave the hunchback free rein, for three days elapsed before he returned to the mine soaked to the marrow by the continuous rains that had raised the floods almost to last year's mark.
It was not to be thought of; and, though the afternoon rains were draping the mountains with heavy gray sheets, he rode out to the inn that night.
Word came to the administrador yesterday that the gringo dam is greatly endangered by warm rains that have added the volcano's snows to the flood.
One night during the last rains it rose fifty feet and swept down the valley miles wide, bearing on its yellow bosom cattle, houses, sheep, and pigs, and it drowned not a few of our people.
Three weeks ago she came galloping in through one of the heaviest rains and took the up train.
Mother would have had me stay in Mexico till the rains were over, but when Don Luis wrote that the river was at flood nothing could hold me.
The night rains had already set in and they came down in sheets which soaked him to the skin and made of the girl, who had fallen asleep in the bows, a dim white nude.
Early rains and late rains have blessed meadow and field.
If the subject was brought up, some friend would suggest gently that it was very inconvenient to get about when the rains were so severe, and therefore it would be much better to wait till they were over.
But when the rains did come, every one was very careful not to remind him of his promise.
There was a break in the rains yesterday, but the clouds are banked up so heavily along the skirts of the sky that there is not much hope of the break lasting.
The driving rains of the fall gave way to January snows.
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