It was raining at the time, and I was almost tempted to lie among my blankets; but my love of sport was too strong, and, armed with powerful glasses, I joined the men on the rocks to watch the hunters.

While we were crouched around the blaze the natives saw sheep on the hills just above us, but it was raining so hard that it was impossible to tell if they were rams.

I went to sleep that night with the expectation of a fair day and good sport on the morrow, but woke next morning to find it raining hard.

It was now raining so hard that I determined not to hunt, and turned in among my blankets with my pipe, but after a time this failed to satisfy me, and by 11 o'clock Hunter and I decided that even a thorough wetting was preferable to doing nothing.

Can't you see that it's raining rye-loaves and cookies?" It was a big, thick mist that moved northward briskly, and followed close upon the geese.

"It's raining; now we shall soon have spring," said she.

The next morning it was still raining.

It stopped raining soon after midnight, but it was very dark, the stream was flooding over its bars, and Thor remained under the rock.

Raining, and dirty underfoot, but Barbro tramps on.

To add to the discomforts of this part of the trip it rained steadily for several days, and, on May 22, Morse paints this dreary picture: "When we waked this morning we found it still raining and, apparently, so to continue all day.

And the first topic is derived from combination, which the Greeks call [Greek: sizugia], being a kindred thing to observation, which we have just been discussing, as, if we were only to understand that to be rain-water which we saw to have been collected from rain, Mucius would come, who, because the words pluna and pluendo were akin, would say that all water ought to be kept out which had been increased by raining.

There was very little shelter for them, and it was positively raining shells; but they had been told to hold the bridge, and they did so until there was no longer a bridge to hold.

So far the shells had been whistling comfortably over our heads, but it was evident that the Germans were aiming at the British Headquarters, and that we had put our heads into the thick of it, for it was now positively raining shells all round us.

"Has it been raining, or did we have a small shower?"

It seemed to me an uttermost end of the earth, but it was raining when I arrived, and the rain never ceased for an instant while I was there.

For here, where I was walking, men had stumbled up with bullets and shells raining about them.

'But it isn't raining in Italy,' he said, getting up from his chair; 'and I am weary of the rain, of myselfI am weary of everything.'

I had a dog they ca'ed Mettleit was a son o' poor Rover, that I mentioned to ye before, Weel, it had been raining through the night, and Mettle had been out in the street.

They thought, however, that it wouldn't last long, and that they could come again; but they were out in that, for it never stopped raining in that manner for forty days, so they were obliged to give it up entirely; and ever since that time there's always more or less rain on Saint Swithin's day, and for forty days after.'

In the morning when we arose it was raining, with little prospect of fair weather, but having expected nothing better, we set out on foot for the Causeway.

When we reached the end of the lake it commenced raining, and we hastened on through the pass of Beal-an-Duine, scarcely taking time to glance at the scenery, till Loch Achray appeared through the trees, and on its banks the ivy-grown front of the inn of Ardcheancrochan, with its unpronounceable name.

When we arose it was raining, and I feared that the weather might dampen somewhat the pleasures of the day, as it had done to the celebrated tournament at Eglintoun Castle.

About noon it commenced raining and our situation was soon anything but comfortable.

First that of a nature book, full of air, foliage and landscapethat English landscape art of Linnell and De Wint and Foster, for which he repeatedly expresses such a passionate tendre, refreshed by 'blasts from the channel, with raining scud and spume of mist breaking upon the hills' in which he seems to crystallise the very essence of a Western winter.

"He's asleep," she murmured, the tears standing in her eyes and raining in her heart.