Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a second sign of the weather brewing. In Exeter, at Killerton Park, there was rain pouring out of the sky, but special trains, omnibuses, wagons, automobiles, drove straight to the spot. Under the flooding, 30,000 people stood for an hour and a half, stood while their umbrellas leaked and the pure water from Heaven dripped down the backs of their necks?stood and listened to a wizard whose wizardy, like all magic of slight and faery lore, was supposed long since to have vanished. What...
...Baldwin may have smiled to himself at the speech when he read it in the newspapers, but when he read "30,000 people . . . an hour and a half . . . pouring rain," doubtless he was not comforted in his homecoming. Mayhap he even cursed the little Welshman...
Author Hamsun Writes of Destiny's Slaves The Story. Carrying the Royal Norwegian Post over the mountain one morning, Benoni Hartvigsen chanced to join Rosa Barfod, the parson's daughter. It chanced to rain. They were by a cave. Taking shelter, they just talked. But a vagabond Lapp chanced to be passing as the rain let up, and he spread a rumor. Benoni denied stoutly, until the notoriety brought him more pleasure than harm. Then he half-admitted, hinted, boasted...
...next match was Borotra against Patterson. A drizzling rain fell during this match-and so did Patterson. The fifth match was not played; for France had won the necessary three out of five and the right to meet the U. S. team at Philadelphia...
...cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples, for two miles about the town in a pouring rain, "on his way" from one meeting to another. There were petulants who objected at the meetings to fuming pipes and cigaretes in the mouths of their colleagues...