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Sentences starting with rain

Rain was quite outside of our program for the night. [4]
Rain was splashing on the bricks of the passage-way outside, the shadows of the night still lurked in the corners; by the grey light she gazed at Lise, who breathed loudly and stirred uneasily, her mouth open, her lips parched. [9]
Rain me sweet odors on the air, And wheel me up my Indian chair, And spread some book not overwise Flat out before my sleepy eyes. [6]
Rain nor heat nor tempest kept them in. [9]
Rain dripped wretchedly in slow drops of melancholy sound from their projecting eaves upon the broken flagging, lay there in pools or trickled into the swollen drains, where the fallen torrent sullenly gurgled on its way to the river. [5]
Rain was dropping as Mr. Brinsmade escorted her up her own steps. [9]

Sentences ending with rain

For instance, none would have pitched a tent in the grounds, slept in it, read in it, and lived in it--when it did not rain. [11]
The gates closed with a bang, and a patter of bullets beat against them like rain. [9]
Put a fine wire-screen over each hill, which will keep out the bugs and admit the rain. [4]
A movement, which we need not go unto, was first made upon the courts, and for a while adverse decisions came down like summer rain. [9]
Everything in camp was drenched, the camp-fire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain. [5]
Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain. [5]
It was almost unnaturally quiet in the house and street; she heard nothing except the plashing of the rain. [10]
At length, unable to remain where I was any longer, I descended to the street and walked uptown in the rain. [9]
Is it going to rain? [4]
He is requested to get some water, to throw on another log, to see what time it is, to note whether it looks like rain. [4]

Short sentences using rain

Do not mind the rain. [12]
Why, here comes rain! [6]
The rain seems less heavy. [2]
He says it does rain. [4]
Besides, the rain continued. [9]
The rain increases. [4]
It does rain. [4]
It did rain. [4]
Rain? [5]

Sentences containing rain two or more times

In the rain the grass does not brighten as you think it ought to, and it is only when the rain turns to snow that you see any decided green color by contrast with the white. [4]
The inevitable, relentless rain of that region had set in again, the rain in which our own soldiers will have to fight, and the skies were of a darkness seldom known in America. [9]
Outside, a dismal February rain was falling, a rain to wet the soul. [9]
Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds. [2]
If there is any delay about the rain, you must pour water in until the cistern is full; the rain will then be sure to come. [5]

More example sentences with the word rain in them

Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
After almost three years' experience, Winslow says, he can scarce distinguish New England from Old England, in respect of heat and cold, frost, snow, rain, winds, etc. [3]
By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
If it is Winter, it will rain--and if it is Summer, it won't rain, and you cannot help it. [5]
Occasionally the northeast wind comes down with whirling, howling fury, as if it would scoop villages and orchards out of the little nook; and the rain, riding on the whirlwind, pours in drenching floods. [4]
The storm of wind and rain that had swept down the ravine was not wilder than her passions when I left her with Justine in the dark night. [11]
He was a willing, lively little waiter, with his moony face on the top of his head; and he jumped round in the rain like a parching pea, rolling his head about in the funniest manner. [4]
The rain had wholly ceased, and seemed to have exhausted itself here in the afternoon. [10]
There are, those who would like to live in this free fashion forever, taking rain and sun as heaven pleases; and there are some souls so constituted that they cannot exist more than three days without their worldly--baggage. [4]
It was Virginia who first caught sight of the new dome of the Capitol through the slanting rain, but she merely pressed her lips together and said nothing. [9]
Sometimes moaning, sometimes whistling, the gusts of the hurricane drove the water and the travellers before it, while the rain poured from the sky to the earth, and wherever it struck splashed upward, making little whirlpools and swiftly breaking bubbles. [10]
Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him. [2]
Through the storm, which lashed her face with whirling clouds of dust and drops of rain, Barbara reached the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
The day of which I have spoken a storm had set in, the rain falling in sheets. [9]
It doesn't rain when Howells is at work. [5]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
The moment we were abed, the rain cleared away and the moon came out. [5]
The "Painter-man" forthwith went out into the rain behind the shed, where a somewhat curious colloquy took place. [9]
On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. [5]
One morning early we made the venture in a melancholy drizzle of rain, and passed through the frowning gates unmolested. [5]
No rain will wash a single one of them away, and I hope it won't efface the least word of my speech either. [10]
The water ahead was now like blue velvet, and the rain pelting. [9]
But the rain was not the chief wonder. [5]
That night a warm heavy rain came on, and in the morning every stream and river was swollen to twice its size. [11]
There was a voiceless interval of some duration now, in which no sounds were heard but the beating of the rain upon the panes, the sighing and complaining of the winds, and now and then a muffled sob from Roxana. [5]
He did not usually give much heed to his dress, yet he was glad that the rain kept people in the house, for the outgrown wrap on his shoulders was by no means pleasing in appearance. [10]
Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
Hospitably he drew us out of the wind and rain into his little hut, and sat us down beside the stove, cheerfully informing us that, only the night before, the gale had blown his door in, and his roof had started for the German lines. [9]
The rain beat upon the panes, and then she knew that she was crying softly to herself. [9]
Unfortunately, I insisted upon my plan, and the next morning sailed in a pouring rain through a dense mist to the mouth of the Weser and out to sea. [10]
The walls were unpainted, but turned by the slow action of sun and air and rain to a quiet dove or slate color. [6]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
The snow had turned to rain, and Terence stood guard within the doorway. [9]
I would always treat any given young person passing through the meteoric showers which rain down on the brief period of adolescence with great tenderness. [6]
The Egyptian asses, too, who were unused to rain, had suffered and some of the best had been left on the road. [10]
This long rain, too, was just the kind of cause which was likely to loosen the strata of rock piled up in the ledges; if the dreaded event should ever come to pass, it would be at such a time. [6]
My ride home to the town after noon was not altogether a pleasant one, by reason that icy rain poured from heaven in streams, mingled with snow. [10]
Joan rode straight to the fosse where she had received her wound, and standing there in the rain of bolts and arrows, she ordered the Paladin to let her long standard blow free, and to note when its fringes should touch the fortress. [5]
Then it began to sprinkle rain, and we could hear the professor fussing at his ropes and things and abusing the weather. [5]
The rain continues to soak down. [4]
I could afford to smile at the weather, at the obsidian sky, at the rain still falling persistently; and yet, as I ate my breakfast, I felt a certain impatience to verify what I knew was a certainty, and hurried to the telephone booth. [9]
Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury, too, and I never see the wind blow so. [5]
It came on to rain, and it rained in dead earnest. [5]
The rain continued to pour and the torrent to boom, and we continued to enjoy both. [5]
I fell asleep to pleasant music that night--the patter of rain upon the panes and the dull growling of distant thunder. [5]
The rain began to lessen, it is true, but the sultry night grew cooler, and a slight chill increased her discomfort. [10]
When you want to go visiting, or attend church, or the theatre, you never look up at the clouds to see whether it is likely to rain or not--you look at the almanac. [5]
I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. [5]
We were like to be drowned with the rain, deafened with the howling wind and the booming thunder, and blinded by the lightning. [5]
And they walk to and from the pigsties which they inhabit--four miles each way, through mud and slush, rain, snow, sleet, and storm, daily, year in and year out. [5]
After a considerable time--he could not tell how long--his senses struggled to a half-consciousness, and as he lay with closed eyes vaguely wondering where he was and what had been happening, he noted a murmurous sound, the sullen beating of rain upon the roof. [5]
For a long time nothing had so strongly reminded them of the roaring of the wind and the rushing of the rain in their northern home. [10]
The rain and thunder were booming yet, and the anxious family were still waiting, still hoping. [5]
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners. [9]
Spencer was taken through the rain by the chagrined Captain to the headquarters, where he caused a little embarrassment. [9]
On and on, through rain and water, we marched until we drew near to the river Embarrass. [9]
Perhaps the government thought they could, if they bore no malice, pray as effectually for rain there as anywhere. [4]
In Syria at this time of year you will suffer a good deal from rain. [10]
Never, as in this moment when the cold rain wet their faces, had the thought of its comfort and warmth and luxury struck him so vividly; yes, and of its terror and loneliness now, of the tortured spirit in it that found no rest. [9]
Well, the first thing that strikes you when you come to Moffitt is the notion that there has been a good warm, growing rain, and the town's come up overnight. [8]
It was dull there, and melancholy--nothing to do but look out of the window into the drenching rain, and shiver; one could do that, for it was bleak and cold and windy, and country France furnishes no fire. [5]
One moment, and there was another flash; and I saw the figure in the beating rain, making toward the precipice. [11]
And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. [5]
An officer of their regiment, with long mustaches extending onto his cheeks, who after riding to the staff had been overtaken by the rain, entered Rostov's shelter. [2]
The roar of the wind, with its strange knell and the re-crashing echoes, mingled with the roar of the flooding rain, and all seemingly were deadened and drowned in a world of sound. [13]
I crawled into the wigwam, but the king and the duke had their legs sprawled around so there warn't no show for me; so I laid outside--I didn't mind the rain, because it was warm, and the waves warn't running so high now. [5]
For a while the whole region about us seemed as bright as day, and yet the rain was falling in torrents all the time. [5]
On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow. [2]
After it passed, the visitors tried to reach Eagle Cliff, two miles off, whence an extensive western prospect is had, but were driven back by a tempest, and rain practically occupied the day. [4]
In spite of the torrents of rain and the gale, the invalid's health had been excellent. [10]
Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
And there was the streak in the wall-paper caused one night by the rain leaking through the roof. [9]
The rain from the roofs was splashing on the bricks of the passage.... What would Mr. Insall say, if he knew? [9]
The wind howled, the rain lashed with fury against the windows, the mob tore through the streets of the town, sacked the wine-shops, built great fires at the corners. [9]
Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing. [2]
The downpour of the rain and the slipperiness of the ground were elements of discomfort; but there was, besides these, a kind of terror in the very character of the forest itself. [4]
They can bear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them; but perpetual contradiction is a pelting hailstorm, which spoils their growth and tends to kill them out altogether. [6]
Who had had the primrose path without the rain of fire, the cinders beneath the feet, the gins and the nets spread for them? [11]
By the time the person had got the horse by the nose,--shutting off his wind,--the rain was coming down in earnest. [9]
The news of the Paris revolution, whose confirmation had reached Berlin in the last few days of February, had caused all this growth and blossoming like sunshine and warm rain. [10]
Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment. [13]
It isn't exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it's oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,--a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike--very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
Suddenly, when in the neighbourhood of Point du Raz, the wind drew ahead very squally, with rain in gusts out of the south-west. [11]
In fact, at the moment some drops of rain fell. [4]
One day, when the mining partners were following the specks of gold that led to a pocket somewhere up the hill, a chill, dreary rain set in. [5]
The sound of the looms was like heavy rain hissing on the waters of the canal. [9]
Very soon, however, the hole in the sky closed in, and the rain dashed down. [4]
In another moment the guide disappeared behind the deluge, and bewildered by the thunder, driven helplessly by the wind, and smitten by the arrowy tempest of rain, I followed. [5]
According to Livingstone, the gorilla also "sits in pelting rain with his hands over his head. [1]
In the morning the fountain, which is, of course, artificial, refused to play, the rain in the night having washed in debris which clogged the conduit. [4]
Next we had the Flood, and the Ark tossing around in the stormy waters, with lofty mountains in the distance showing veiled and dim through the rain. [5]
It was about the first of September; no rain had fallen for several weeks, and this heart of the forest was as dry as tinder; a lighted match dropped anywhere would start a conflagration. [4]
Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
We tramped through the darkness and the drenching summer rain full three miles, and reached "The Naturalist Tavern" in the village of Hirschhorn just an hour before midnight, almost exhausted from hardship, fatigue, and terror. [5]
We fastened down the curtains and even caulked them with clothing, but the rain streamed in in twenty places, nothwithstanding. [5]
The rain ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun turned the muddy river to gold. [9]
It is said that the student likes to appear on the street and in other public places in this kind of array, and that this predilection often keeps him out when exposure to rain or sun is a positive danger for him. [5]

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