It kept on after that, he supposed, a steady downpour, but could not with certainty say, being securely deep in sleep.

It was in Western Australia, in March, 1857, that Frank T. Gregory commenced his career as an independent explorer by taking advantage of a sudden heavy downpour of rain on the upper reaches of the Murchison River, which flooded the dry course of the lower portion where he was then engaged on survey work.

It was a change to see something that really seemed to enjoy the incessant downpour and to enter into the spirit of it.

The next day, in the midst of continuing torrential tropical downpours, we climbed out of the hot valley to the cold heights of Pampaconas.

We hesitated to enter the home of a savage without an invitation, but the terrific downpour overcame our scruples, if not our nervousness.

" CHAPTER IX The Flood Twenty-four hours of a hard, continuous downpour, accompanied by a warm south wind, worked a mighty difference in the aspect of things at Roaring Water Portage.

There were tremendous downpours of rain, lasting for a couple of hours and accompanied by thunder and lightning.

The next day, in the midst of continuing torrential tropical downpours, we climbed out of the hot valley to the cold heights of Pampaconas.

In these regions 210 inches of rain is an average downpour for the monsoon between May and October, the heaviest fall being generally in July.

The weather, which had been damp and misty, with frequent downpours of rain, improved very much in the following week, and, as often happens in January, there were several days with the sun shining, no wind and light frosts at night,

Dawn of the fourth day broke as they were advancing and again a violent downpour and mighty wind attacked them, which would not allow them to go forward or even to stand securely, and actually deprived them of the use of their weapons.

But by some chance for which I cannot to this hour account (unless the rain was the cause), I missed the chart-road, which should have been fairly level, and found myself on mountain tracks, unconscious of my whereabouts, while darkness fell, and a windless downpour that had a certain sullen venom in its superabundance drenched us.

In a lull of actual downpour we made an excursion to Kolashin, four hours away, passing through the scene of the defeat of Mehemet Ali Pasha.

This rainfall, immense though it be, is small as compared with that of other parts of the archipelago; e.g., in Liano, NE. of Mindanao, the average yearly downpour is 142 inches.

My business rolled on in ever-increasing volume, so that I had to fairly pick my way through the constant downpour of briefs, but was always pressed forward by that useful institution known as the "barrister's clerk.

In all Virginia's history there had been no such invasion, for the wars of Opechancanough and Berkeley and the fight of Bacon against the Susquehannocks were mere bickers compared with this deliberate downpour from the hills.

By noon the rain had settled into a dull, steady downpour.

On the twenty-seventh nature at last relented and, to his great satisfaction, there was a generous downpour.

Anxious to get back as soon as possible, the young man walked hurriedly along, elbowing his way among the cab-drivers swarming in front of the great Palacio de Dos Aguas, closed, silent, slumbering, like the two giants that guarded its portals, displaying in the golden downpour of sunlight the overdecorated yet graceful sumptuousness of its roccocò facade.

It was the occasional downpour of water after rain which had caused the accumulation of debris on which my log had grounded.

Nor shack nor shelter made for man, and only one place where there was water to wet his lips if they cracked with thirst,unless, perchance, one of those swift desert downpours came riding on the wind, lashing the clouds with lightning.

My feeble finger had touched the button which brought this unexpected downpour, and for the moment I was unpleasantly in the limelight.

We had seven days of unrelieved downpour.