- It rained all night and all day, with some gusts of wind; during which time the ship broke in pieces, the wind blowing a little harder than before, and was no more to be seen, except the wreck of her, and that only at low water.
From the 26th to the 30th I worked very hard in carrying all my goods to my new habitation, though some part of the time it rained exceedingly hard.
A woman's tears do not make one wet, but the rain does; and her coldness does not lay the foundations of asthma and rheumatism, as the east wind is apt to.
I said I should like one that would keep the rain off, and that would not allow itself to be left behind in a railway carriage.
She now felt a great inclination to go to the outer door; she wanted to see if it
rained. Why was she to suspect herself of another motive?
They promised to come at twelve, only it
rained; but now, as it is so fine, I dare say they will be here soon."
On the morning of the 17th it
rained lightly, the first time this year, for about five hours.
The next morning we would read that it was going to be a "warm, fine to set-fair day; much heat;" and we would dress ourselves in flimsy things, and go out, and, half-an-hour after we had started, it would commence to rain hard, and a bitterly cold wind would spring up, and both would keep on steadily for the whole day, and we would come home with colds and rheumatism all over us, and go to bed.
There was one hanging up in a hotel at Oxford at which I was staying last spring, and, when I got there, it was pointing to "set fair." It was simply pouring with rain outside, and had been all day; and I couldn't quite make matters out.
Chickens knows when it's gwyne to
rain, en so do de birds, chile."
Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and- now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it- set off with Ilyin in the lessening
rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.
'Nay, sir,' exclaimed she, 'pray don't go now, while it
rains so fast.'