The darkness of night had literally swallowed them up, and the downpour of rain drowned every noise that might have been made by their advance.

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.

There must have been a downpour in the rainy world on the other side of the Sierras that moistened your pigments.

Sankara, however, bore that downpour on him with a cheerful heart.

At the same instant the rain shut in over the hills again; a fresher wind sprang up and drove the downpour into his face.

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.

It was quite in her line to arrange a downpour like this on a market eve.