The first year of the reign of Nial Frassagh is distinguished by a shower of silver, a shower of wheat, and a shower of honey.
Four Masters)--a shower of silver, a shower of honey, and a shower of blood.
My lady sat almost silent under the steady shower of words, listening and thinking, and now and then touching the strings of the viol which lay forgotten on her lap.
A little later, one wing, unable to bear theshower of shot, had broken and tried to fly, and in a moment our pikemen had gained the work.
She sobbed convulsively, and a shower of tears relieved her breaking bosom.
In vain he attempted to harangue the infuriated throng from the window; he was driven back by a shower of stones and other missiles.
It looked as though a heavy shower was coming up, and clouds of mist and fog swept over the ocean.
As the wise ones had predicted, the shower was of brief duration.
He would not accept the bounty they stood ready to shower upon him, and he was poor and without money-making faculty.
Also it is not strange that they should lose temper, shower abuse upon their opponents, and fill the land with mutual accusations of heinous moral offences.
Later in the chapter I shall try to bring out fully the praise and appreciation which world history will, as seems probable to me, shower upon his career.
Why, no more than a slight shower in a few townships during the drought a few years ago would have done in preventing injury to the Kansas corn crop.
The shower of wealth now fell copiously on the Company and its servants.
Martia, it seems, came to our earth in a shower of shooting-stars a hundred years ago.
Each bead was undoubtedly a shower of heavenly graces that fell upon souls like the liquid diamonds into the chalice of the flower.
When we went to bed that night, a shower was prowling about the horizon, and over on Spruce Mountain the wolves were howling back defiance to the thunders.
Herakles would have lost the battle but Zeus sent down a shower of rocks of vast size, and Herakles hurled them at his foes, driving them away like frightened sheep.
He sent a golden shower of sunbeams to console her in her prison, and a little babe was born to her, and she called him Perseus, the son of Light.
Though the wet bushes gave them shower baths, the sun soon dried them.
Even Rose-Ellen, even Dick and Jimmie, were excited over the laundry tubs in the central building, and more interested in the shower baths.
Filling his cupped hands with water, he sent up shower after shower of mimic rain between them and the miserable, cowering beast.
Sure, Jove descended in a leaden shower To get this Perseus; hence the fatal power Of shot is strangled.
Pardon, dear Saint, that we so late With lazy sighs bemoan thy fate, And with an after-shower of verse And tears, we thus bedew thy hearse.
There was a rush of feet padding down the hall and Helen made good her promise, reaching the shower room two jumps ahead of Janet.
Janet decided on a warm shower and Helen followed her under the spray.
I'm going on to the hotel, take a shower and crawl into bed," said Helen.
A quick shower was followed by a rapid but thorough toilet and they were ready for what they might have in store for them.
In the scanty soils along these declivities the ferula fœniculacea sometimes occurs, diffusing its powerful and peculiar odour, perceptible after a shower at the distance of several rods.
Our baggage had been wet on the preceding day, and again by a heavy shower in the night: as the morning was cloudy, we remained in camp for some time, and attempted to dry our clothes and blankets by a large fire.
The plains in many places having little inclination, the water of a sudden showeris drained off less rapidly than it falls.
At three o'clock, as we were about to resume our journey, there came on a gentleshower of rain, with wind at east, and low broken clouds.
We had scarce dismounted from our horses, when a violent thunder-shower commenced; the rain fell in such torrents as to extinguish our fire, and the wind blew so violently that our blanket-tent could afford us no protection.
So after a long, long time they came to a castle, which was all hung with black, and just as they were passing by it a shower of rain fell, and so the princess stepped into the church porch to wait till the rain was over.
Frequently a day's rain would have been cheaply bought at the price of a million dollars; and even a good shower gave an impetus to business which was felt by the merchants and gamblers of San Francisco and Sacramento.
The chief attraction of every theatrical troupe was a child, usually called the "California Pet," whose appearance on the stage was always greeted with a shower of coins.
Through the dust and falling showerof débris, Brandes fired at Ilse Dumont, reeled about in the whirl of the inrushing throng engulfing him, still firing blindly at the woman who had been his wife.
Just as he threw in the clutch and the car started, the girl blew a shower of sparks from the end of her cigarette, rose in her seat, and flung the lighted cigarette high into the air.
Silvestre found four species of diatoms and living infusoria in the sand obtained from a dust shower in Sicily in 1872.
At nightfall a gentle shower came, and by holding my mouth open I managed to relieve my thirst a little.
It began to rain just before the field events were contested, and when the heavy shower ceased the field was in no condition for jumping or pole-vaulting.
From all sides round, against them a shower of missiles flew; The dauntless band full knightly stood on defence anew.
LIII At once so smote he Folker with weapon sharp and true, That to the walls on all sides a shower of shivers flew From helm and eke from buckler like chaff before the blast.
So he dressed quickly, hoping that the hot room and the shower would calm him, and he went out.
All along the Boulevards fell a thick shower of large yellow leaves which rustled down with a dry sound.
Under the trees, farther away, the moon was pouring among the branches a shower of fine rays that fell to earth, seeming to wet the leaves that were spread out on the path in little patches of yellow light.
Shamus, when he afterward became acquainted with the specimens, called them "a rattlin' showerof witches' pebbles.
The rain stage of condensation had been reached above, but the descending shower was re-vaporized apparently, and thus arrested.
Soothing and gentle as when laden with spicy fragrance south, they here shower the whole land with sunbeams.
Whispering together, they suddenly hurled a shower of stones at him.
In truth, the Library Steps were wet and glistening, for there had been a shower after midnight.
