It was a showery morning, and looked wofully like a rainy day; but nothing better is to be expected in England; and, after all, there is seldom such a day that you cannot glide about pretty securely between the drops of rain.
It was a cloudy, moist, showery day, when I arrived; and this fire gave me the brightest and most hospitable smile, and took away any shivery feeling by its mere presence.
It continued showery all day; and the omnibus was crowded.
How at pale lips blown stars like bubbles break, Burn, streamed from showery locks she tosses high!
Oh, stop, and straight unfold, Pretty maid, with showerycurls of gold!
A clear, breezy morning, after nearly a week of cloudy and showery weather.
Showery weather set in, and the hay had to be turned twice, and left in cocks instead of carried.
Jenny, can you repeat what Uncle Ben said under the tree on the showery day when the birds sang, nearly seventy years ago?
It was a showery afternoon in summer--now bright, now overcast--and all the birds were singing on the Common between the showers.
While we were sitting, chatting, two young ladies came in, who had walked up the glen despite the showery day.
It was a showery day; but every few moments the sun blinked out, smiling through the falling rain, and making the wet leaves glitter, and the raindrops wink at each other in the most sociable manner possible.
The afternoon was showery and misty, therefore we did not see this prospect so distinctly as we could have wished, but there was a grand obscurity over it which might make the mountains appear more numerous.
It was a showery morning and threatened to be a wettish day, but the sun shone once or twice.
A very rainy, or rathershowery and gusty, morning; for often the sun shines.
The dry season had been of very brief duration this year; it generally lasts in this part of the Amazons from July to January, with a short interval of showery weather in November.
After a week or two of showery weather, the aspect of the country is completely changed.
A showery season is preferable, or they must frequently be watered till they have taken root.
The last week is proper for transplanting evergreens, and a showery day should be chosen for the purpose.
Choose the evening of a mild showery day, and plant out into the open ground, the tender annuals hitherto kept in pots in the hotbed frame.
Showery weather and cold, notwithstanding the advanced season the snow still lies on the North side of the hills and banks.
Thursday 11 Showery in the morning, fair afterwards with strong Westerly Wind.
Thursday 25 Showery in the night, but fair weather during the day, blowing fresh from the Westward.
In showery weather, when small areas are being harvested, hay caps can be used with profit.
Where the facilities are present such a method of curing mammoth clover may be eminently wise in showery weather.
Nor would it be wise in showery weather to try and cure the crop without putting it into cocks, whether grown alone or with some other crop.
Moreover, showery or muggy weather will soon greatly injure the crop.
The flowers are very numerous, especially when showery weather precedes and accompanies the flowering season.
In showery weather this method of curing alfalfa merits careful attention where straw can be had near at hand and in sufficient quantities.
When there is a reasonable certainty that the weather shall continue dry, it is quite practicable to cure clover in the winrow, but in showery weather to attempt to do so would mean ruin to the clover.
Like some myrtle of Asia Bright in airily blossoming Boughs, the wood Hamadryades Nurse with showery dew, to be Theirs, a tender plaything.
Falsely the parents' joy dashes a showery tear, When to the nuptial door they come in rainy beteeming?
Sad, these piteous eyes did waste all wearily weeping, (55) Sad, these cheeks did rain ceaseless a showery woe.
There is a belt of showers, or showery period approaching, of unusual intensity--for thunder showers in the morning are rare.
This rain fell from a belt, halfshowery and half stormy in character, which had a S.
It should be remembered that he is describing the phenomena in the showery climate of England.
A little before daylight it commenced raining, and continued showery all day, and though we got wet several times, we experienced great comfort from the warm clothing we had obtained from Captain Rossiter.
The stock of plants out of doors to be carefully looked over in showery weather that they may not suffer from imperfect drainage.
Take up the plants from the open ground; choose a showery day for the purpose.
The Rising came like happy tidings, like the cool breath of dawn, like a May-time shower: Under a showery sky Bloom wide the fields of rye, Ever blue and chill May will the granaries fill.
Under a showery sky, Bloom wide the fields of rye, Ever blue and chill May will the granaries fill.
In showery days the flower appears half concealed, and this state may be regarded as indicative of showery weather; when it is entirely shut, we may expect a rainy day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "showery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
