It rained all night and the men lay in the mud without fires.

From the tops of the azoteas, from the Casa Mata and the Molino, a deadly shower of balls was rained crosswise upon the assailants.

For it rained not only water, where previously no drop had ever fallen, but also blood.

But the official was unable to protect him, and blows with fists and sticks literally rained on the defenceless fellow.

Another machine-gun cut loose, and bullets rained over us.

A few tears dropped slowly as she cuddled in the chair with her head on its arm, she hardly knew why; because she was alone, perhaps, and Linnet was so far off, and it rained, and Miss Prudence and her little girl might not come home to-night, and, it might be, because Miss Prudence had another little girl to love.

"I asked a countryman in the train if it always rained here, and he replied, 'No; it sometimes snows.'

It rained all day and at dusk the mist had crept down the hills.

It was the day before the big Cattle Fair at Örebro; it rained in torrents and people thought: "This is exactly as in Ysätter-Kaisa's time!

It rained just as hard on the island as it did everywhere else.

"Hi, Willow. Rained out!" Willow looked up.

He learned to separate our cows from the many strange ones on the plain; to move faster when it rained; to choose the crossings that were safe; and to avoid the branches that might scrape me from his back.

We see the palladium of the American idealgoddess of the just eye, the unpolluted heart, the equal handstanding as the image of Athene stood above the upper streams of Simois: "It stood, and sun and moonshine rained their light On the pure columns of its glen-built hall.

The morning was mistyit had rained during the nightand clouds hung heavy and low over the city.

Her wet cheek was pressed against Judith's lips, the tears rained down in a torrent.

I ate some pemmican, for I had a reluctanceneedless as it turned outto touch any of the thousand luxuries here, sufficient no doubt, in a town like Dover alone, to last me five or six hundred years, if I could live so long; and, having eaten, I descended The Shaft, and spent the whole day, though it rained and blustered continually, in wandering about.

Every man who knew how to read and write became an officer; it rained dukedoms; pensions were distributed with both hands; there were fortunes for the general staff which didn't cost France a penny; and even common soldiers received annuities with their crosses of the Legion of HonorI get mine to this day.

It was one of those wretched wet days which is said to make even an old inhabitant of Argyleshire look despondingly,in which county, it will be remembered that, after six weeks' incessant wet, an English traveller, on asking a shepherd boy whether it always rained there, received the consoling reply of, "No, sirit sometimes snaws."

Cleveland is situated on the slope of a hill commanding a beautiful and extensive view; the latter I was told, for as it rained incessantly, I had no opportunity of judging.

My guide informed me that there was a peculiarity in these rivers nobody could satisfactorily account for, viz., that the more it rained, the lower these waters fell.

It rained hard and the glass fell rapidly last night with every sign of a coming gale.

It seemed as though ashes might have rained down upon perpetuity.

When it rained cats and dogs.

When it rained cats and dogs.

On the 1st of July, at daybreak, this latter body, encamped at a short distance from Doryleum, in Phrygia, saw descending from the neighboring heights a cloud of enemies who burst upon the Christians, first rained a perfect hail of missiles upon them, and then penetrated into their camp, even to the tents assigned to the women, children, and old men, the numerous following of the crusaders.

According to legend, King Adisur, who reigned there in the ninth century of our era, imported five priests from Kanauj to perform indispensable sacrifices.

Although we were evidently passing an alpine height, where a long winter reigned, and the vegetation bore every indication of being imperfectly developed.

The Colonel reigned in the Speaker's parlor.

Jollity reigned.

For a moment only blank consternation reigned, then Mr. Day drew himself up with a scornful air, while Mr. Forbes sat staring at him with his head bowed upon his bosom.

Dr. Francois Bernier, the French physician who visited the Mogul court in 1658, and gives us a graphic description of the durbar and Emperor Aurangzeb, who reigned at that time, writes: "The king appeared upon his throne splendidly appareled.

According to the inscription, it was erected by Ala-din Khiji, who reigned from 1296 to 1316, and remains as it stood at his death.

A day or two later Betsy wrote to her the happy news that the sentence of expulsion was withdrawn, and peace reigned once more in the ivy-covered lodge.

Joseph, brother of Napoleon, reigned on the throne of which King Charles had been perfidiously despoiled.

And Ferdinand, the young monarch of whom so little was known and so much expected,he, too, a voluntary prisoner, while a Frenchman reigned in Madrid?

During nearly two years, Monteverde reigned in Venezuela.

He fought manfully with his two great fat fists the battle of babyhood, utterly reversed all nursery maxims, and reigned as baby over the whole prostrate household.

From an Elegy on Edward I, who reigned till 1307 from 1272.

Dismounting, we fastened our horses to a couple of saplings, and I was introduced to the interior of Cranberry Lodge, which was tenanted only by the "hired man," who, in the absence of Mr. B., reigned supreme in the clearing.

The emperor Kang-hi and his grandson Keenlung, each reigned sixty years, to the Chinese a manifest token of Heaven's favor.

Between the Indians and the white men peace nominally reigned, but rumors were flying of impending uprisings, and the Red Man's smouldering hate was soon to burst into the flame known as Lord Dunmore's War.

A great silence reigned; no, not a great silence, for he continued to hear the cry: "Oh, how could you hurt your Grizel so!"

At the northern most points that they reached they occasionally encountered traders who had travelled south or southwesterly from the wintry regions where the British fur companies reigned supreme.

" In 1784, Joseph II. reigned alone.

For more than two years I was without relatives or friends, in fact, without a world, except that one created by my own mind from the chaos that reigned within it.

Silence reigned instantly and an officer in uniform in the middle of the group read out a short message from a paper he held in his hand.

XVIII ORISKANY It is due, no doubt, to my limited knowledge of military matters and to my lack of practical experience that I did not see the battle of Oriskany as our historians have recorded it; nor did I, before or during the affair, notice any intelligent effort towards assuming the offensive as described by those whose reports portray an engagement in which, after the first onset, some semblance of military order reigned.

In most cases they were hired by their former owners and peace reigned around the home or plantation.

A deathly, sickening silence reigned in the room.

Perfect silence reigned: a pleasant aroma of rum mellowed the already vitiated atmosphere.