She took his coat and shook off the worst of the rain before hanging it on the radiator. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Those crops were unable to spread south of the Sudan, beyond which they encountered summer rains and little or no seasonal variation in daylight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a while the painful gulps wore themselves out and the tears running down April’s cheeks began to feel almost good, soothing like warm rain. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gutters of the city overhead had dried, but old rain seeped and dripped from the glazed brick walls. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden hiss and roar as the rain came down. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Through a haze of rain and pain he dived for the shimmering, sneering face below him and saw its eyes widen with fear: Malfoy thought Harry was attacking him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And the rain has picked up, pounding the ground outside the entrance to the cave. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

While Hazel gazed, the wind slowly veered round into the west, as Cowslip had said it would, and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange Kool-Aid we drank was muddy, because the rain had stirred up the river before we filled our jugs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, the room smelled musty and dank from all the coats hanging in the back, soaking wet from their owners having walked miles in the rain to get there. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was to “dance naked in the rain.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next day at camp, the rain slowed to a drizzle. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“When Jesus said ast and ye shall receive, I don’t think He meant us to pray ‘Lord, spare my child,’ or ‘Make it rain for the crops,’ or ‘Don’t let my bizness fail.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Then the wind picked up and a little rain started coming down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked normal, but there was a sweet floral scent that wasn’t there before, the smell of earth after rain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He’d like to be outside with Petey in the rain, one of those warm summer rains that was just hard enough to drench you, but not hard enough to chase you indoors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bob Dylan sang about a hard rain that was going to fall, and Shadow wondered if that rain had fallen yet, or if it was something that was still going to happen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I like to lie on my back and let the shower rain down on me full force. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rains and the station has no roof. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary cattle would have stayed near the water unless there had been rain or many other places for water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The world can always give you reasons. No rain, not enough for the ants to eat. Something like that. Nsongonya are always moving anyway, it is their nature. Whether God cares or not.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain began to fall, and Rupa scurried to gather the dry clothes. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down south, there was always someplace else to go you could step out into the rain and Grandma would let you lift your head and stick out your tongue be happy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Now, why would I do that? There’s no rain,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Land Army girls were hoeing among the cabbages in the adjoining field—no time off for them in the rain, either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“The rain went on nearly all night, you know. We generally sleep right through the early morning if it’s rough weather. But it’s turned fine now.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never let rain fall on it if he could help it and he walked to Sonny’s Shop—taking the car out only on these occasions. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nest rested near the trunk, protected from both the wind and the rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Nommo rains from a cloud, rises in the vapor from a human mouth: a song, a scream, a prayer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, it starts to rain as we head home from school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day it rained and a dozen girls ran outside to dance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The shoulders of his shirt were stained with the rain, his hair dripping, when he rounded the corner. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was no sound but the steady falling rain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t rained for a while, and the river mixes with the seawater when the tide is up. It’ll be better when the tide goes out. Or if it rains. That’s what Master Percy said.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

No one else was foolish enough to be outside, so I ran straight down the main path without fear of being spotted, the hood of my jacket scrunched tight against the whipping rain. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A pestilence of rain we received, the likes of which we had never seen or dreamed about in Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled their jackets over their heads and ran through the rain, stepping in puddles and laughing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What slopes rose on above us I never looked up to see: nothing to see but rain falling. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Will you be coming in, dearie? Or will you be stopping out there in the rain?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy rains brought the disease down the streams and rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a fine rain falling, as there had been all week. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“He smells like barley rained down and left to rot in the fields. He smells like a wounded mole that can’t get underground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside was blowy and wet, like a rain machine was aimed over Black Swan Green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The heavy rain hit the canvas top with the sound of slaps. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had rained during the night, a gentle and safe sprinkle that Ivy let lull her to sleep after she’d stayed awake for hours drawing, and now the pavement shined like polished silver. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At a time when every fiber of their being cries out for sleep and food, they press forward over muddy, rutted roads, enduring rain and chill and the constant harassment of Union cavalry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She could have built her own hut to shelter from the rain and devised fishing lines to satisfy her need for meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him he heard the lawn-sprinkling system jump up, filling the dark air with rain that fell gently and then with a steady pour all about, washing on the sidewalks, and draining into the alley. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of harsh blossoms; this was the desert, and there was no rain. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I imagine Ziggy still feeling cold and wet from the rain, since he doesn’t have a towel to dry off with. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to fix the fence. It’s a waste of time. In all these years, the rain hasn’t returned. And you know what—it’s not going to!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The air is sharply cold from an hour or two of early morning rain. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There are living creatures falling like rain and objects that float by themselves. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is out today, but the rain fell in sheets as soon as we pulled into the parking lot of Williamson. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A forest fire in the dead woods, and then it rained and the smoke stopped. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They swam out of the darkness and the rain, and were as quickly swallowed up in it again. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered praying for the rain to stay away even during drought season because his house had a hole in the roof right above his cot. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Rocks digging through my shoes as I run through wind and rain, black chasing me through the storm. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rain came down hard and fast, stinging his face like a million bees. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A deadly silence filled the house apart from the gentle patter of the rain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Coming and coming especially in the dusk when it rained, getting honeysuckle all mixed up in it as though it were not enough without that, not unbearable enough. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew when the sky would pour down rain upon them, and when the sun would burn their backs. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The noise, the rain, the sky—he knows by now that she’s in danger. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For three days the rain poured in the waterfall torrents of tropical storms. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut off from civilization, the Nhambiquara Indians were adept at hiding from plain view in the rain forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I used to hate rain in the summer because it ruined vacation time. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I shielded my eyes from the stinging rain and looked, but all I could see were waves and fog. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t really rain there. Not like it does here,” she said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I could not build a fire because of the rain and I was very cold. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swing groaned while we sat there smelling warm rain, wet wood, rotted grass. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain drummed all night on the steel roof overhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It had rained the night before, and the only sound was the gurgle of the runoff pouring down through the eroded gullies on the hillside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t rained in a month. Your dad’s fooling with you, Sonny. Look, there’s the new walkway. All done. They could’ve hauled the cement and stuff away when they finished.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Needles swore and cursed, saliva building in the corners of his mouth, tears raining down his face, but his eyes were fixed on his brother. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Says who ?” “Says me. Gee, look at the rain.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The silk sheets, clenched in Ruby’s fists, burst into flame, and an instant later the cloud burst forth rain, severing the dove-and-violin sigh and dousing her before the rest of her bonfire could kindle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

First come merchants, potentates, and artisans of the City Erhenrang, rank after rank, magnificently clothed, advancing through the rain as comfortably as fish through the sea. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, but the trees were dripping and the ground was wet. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s actually pretty chilly for Georgia, and it looks like it rained sometime after lunch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And then I saw the curtains blowing wildly, and outside rain was falling harder, causing everyone to scurry and shout. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had softened to a mist, and his wet shirt felt cool against his skin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I put the rain poncho in the front compartment, too. Same thing goes if it rains, Auggie, okay? Make sure you cover the hearing aids with the hood.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Outside rushed the armies of the rain, and lightning flashed against the window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Light rain woke me—more like nudged me out of my daze. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The characters loitered in deserted rooms, no one talking, everything silent for whole minutes except the hiss of the projector and rain pounding on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would have thought, even over the pounding rain, I could have heard the engine’s roar. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, in contrast to the winter rains prevailing over much of Europe, Japan’s rains are concentrated in the summer growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I followed his gaze and saw that he was scowling at the pouring rain outside the window. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Well, here in Montana, a watched sky never rains. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t Texas. They have their own weather in Florida, and we all need to change our attitudes about it. People shouldn’t stand outside in this kind of rain. Just listen to that!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And each year rain and snow beat in and the sun of summer shone in and spoiled their robes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Fall arrived and it rained every day, meaning we would now be scolded for the water dripping from our coats and umbrellas. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Just after midnight it starts to rain, but no one runs for the tents. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the time I start walking home the second time, it’s raining. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

On searching further, the fishery officers found other plants where rains or ordinary clean-up waters would carry insecticides into the sewer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even on a good day, without rain, Ess tended to topple. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It has a lot, and I mean a lot, of flies and it is indoors. You won’t have to deal with rain or wind.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had a good bank, safe from the rats and from the rain and snow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible, then, to smell the rain coming and to feel the cool pause before the first drops fell. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The party is breaking up anyway, Don Enrique. This rain is a perfect excuse.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so they sat listening to the soothing randomness of the rain until Citra began to grow too weary to even think. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Up in my room the rain was coming down heavily outside on the balcony, and the wind blew it against the glass doors. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It was raining that day, I remember. Small sheets of rain.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Not even like rain so hard it wakes you up or the kind of wind that hurls tree branches into the streets. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that, even though no rain had fallen at all for the past few days, the arching vision, shining faintly but unmistakably over Milagro, was a rainbow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat races down my face, like the rain across the glass above our heads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nearly every day now I run ten or fifteen miles, barely clothed, my skin exposed to the California winter rain and wind or the summer sun of late afternoon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the rain and the hood shadowing her face, I couldn’t see her tears, but I could hear her crying. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I just figured she was already camped outside the principal’s office, threatening to rain down hell on him.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her fingers dig and reach; the drops of rain touch the back of her neck, the backs of her hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At last, when it was clear that the rain was going to stay for the night, he joined the others in the Honeycomb. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if given a cue, the heavy sky suddenly empties barrels of rain over the club. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And though the rain fall and the floods come and the winds blow, the good wife’s house will stand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he turned down Burman Street, Bryson could hear their feet quicken, hear the footfalls on the pavement speed up like rain going from drizzle to downpour. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We climbed inside the car just as the first big drops of rain rapped against the roof. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was different in the dark and rain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He strode to the archway and stood for some time under the falling rain of the spring. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rain began falling again, first in the trees, then in the mud puddles, then, faintly, like a soothing murmur, on the tent top. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But though a furrow grew upon his flesh and a callus formed there as large as a bowl, no rain came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That time of year it could easily have been pouring rain, and cold. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though for the moment, the rain is not much more than a heavy mist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But, as it was autumn weather, the rain suddenly disappeared, and cloudless, brilliant skies once more stretched over them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Towards morning it rained; the whole of the following day was wet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

William grinned and wiped the rain from his forehead—and it was replaced by sweat. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There were regions, open to the sweeping winds and rain, which were yet lighted throughout the night with long, blinking lines of gas lamps fluttering in the wind.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Everything is fine, Chris. Pull your hood up—it’s raining hard.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If the rains failed or clouds of locusts arrived or if a fungus infected that staple species, peasants died by the thousands and millions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bullets pinged off of them like rain off a corrugated roof. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It is April now, and the rain falls in sweet showers that hathe every root and swelling hud of nature. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They waste away the morning in bed, watching Mel and Sue squawk over tea cakes on Henry’s laptop, listening to the rain slow to a drizzle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, the mist was blowing off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They featured covered galleries so that merchants could buy and sell even if rain came drumming down; cellars were so large, they resembled underground cities. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gray as rain, you were, but your color came normal in time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was pitch-black dark before the rain finally drizzled away and the moon came out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The rain stops falling, the fire stops burning, my heart stops beating. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile it would keep raining, and the water did trickle so, and now that brachet was sneezing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rose and went out into the evening where Tall Andras and his father waited in a light rain, their faces resigned. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Tonight they’ll have to hump it in the rain, same as us!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The steady, gentle rain felt good on my face. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jax adjusts his baseball cap, and I brace myself as he opens the lobby door again, letting in cold and rain and noise until the door closes behind him. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, the rain did not cause this. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Securing it, he swung his father’s heavy cloak around him against the rain and crouched where he was, looking steadily at the two shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even if it hadn’t rained, he still brought the water Amil needed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No mud this time, despite last week’s rain—ground’s all frozen solid. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The yard was practically cleared of trees, and rain fell through the dozens of holes punched into the roof. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

People prayed for rain and used powerful magic to bring on the heavy purple clouds that would save the land, but all this was to no avail. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The chugging came closer; then we saw the motor boat in the rain a little astern of us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He said this coldly, without emotion, neither threatening nor sympathetic, exactly the way one would say: “The weatherman’s promising rain for tomorrow.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain has turned to a downpour, sending streams of water through our ceiling where earlier there had been only drips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you have a bad time? I mean, aside from the rain, no Stonehenge, no country house, no sheep? Aside from the fact that it was a day of disaster upon disaster?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So they just stood there, letting the rain wash over them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I make my way downstairs, it’s raining hard outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their suites all had bathrooms with deep mesarthium pools in them, but water no longer came from the pipes, so they used a copper tub in the rain room instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘I like rain,’ I said, thinking about how all life depended on it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had driven everyone under their roofs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He has a letter, but he does not hand it to her directly, instead putting it down on a table by the door and saying something to her, as hushed as the rain. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Drizzles of rain splash down on top of us, making the air feel instantly thicker with humidity. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even though our receptors are not sensitive enough to hear it, there is comfort in knowing that the sound is there overhead, like the random noise of rain on the roof at night. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped out into the rain and the carriage started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed onto his own bed and stared up at the dark canvas roof, listening to the pounding of the rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She knew what grass smelled like, a rich brew of dirt and green roots, right after rain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, ’tis a lovely place, all green and cool like—if you don’t mind a spot of rain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rain would come, and it would be like buckets falling on top of you,” de la O said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'm thrown backward to the ground, body useless, paralyzed, eyes frozen wide, as feathery bits of matter rain down on me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if all that wasn’t bad enough, it started to rain hard, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The table was littered with disordered papers; rain was beating on the windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To get away from the rain, Roy dashed into the wooden kiosk. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain continued, steady and gentle, all that day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And their streets don't get flooded every time it rains. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were heavy with bright blossoms and as the wind blew through the branches, golden flowers showered down like rain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the window and looked out onto the copse, swept by the first heavy rain of summer. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The three of us ran with linked arms, clutching our jackets, and felt the first drops of rain as we reached Papi’s hotel. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, this young chap had better step inside, hadn't he? Till the rain lets up, at least.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were the first to receive the rain and they gave off a wet clay odor that was like the smell of life itself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the rest of the extra nitrogen, the spring rains wash it off Naylor’s fields, carrying it into drainage ditches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking of what Mrs. Quintana had said: Remember the rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a plank to cover the opening of the gang, pulled himself up to sit on it, and began to kick at the window with such force the dirt flew over Pinmei like rain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That is where the last of the great African rain forests still stand—Cameroon and Gabon, Zaire and the Congo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry flew through the air, then crashed to the floor, unable to see as debris rained upon him, his arms over his head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even Sass forgot her scolding and stood a little apart in the courtyard letting the rain fall on her as if it were washing away some of her sorrow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Gardens—where we grow the crops. Water’s pumped in through pipes in the ground—always has been, or we’d have starved to death a long time ago. Never rains here. Never.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“There was no sleep for us until we heard the welcome sound of rain against our windows. How our hearts did rise in thankfulness to heaven for rain!” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The light summer rain cooled them off after the thick haze of Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rain fell in a cold, sad drizzle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hung around near the back door, shuffling in our cleats, for twenty more minutes of pounding rain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monkeys themselves came from coastal rain forests on the island of Mindanao. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Woundwort leaped backward and in the same moment, through the all-enveloping sound of the rain, there sounded a raucous clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the rain coming in, though, pattering on the leaves a few hundred yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Interesting choice to leave it out in the rain.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

First it rained, then it froze, then anything with more than a half-inch extending broke off to the ground by this morning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once there, she sat parked in the rain trying to compose herself. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the wind had died down to its usual whisper. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s truck might handle better in the rain than Mom’s car, but no one would call it comfortable. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

After a rain the driveway was crawling with worms, and Joe crushed every one of them under his heels. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds began to call again as the rain moved away from us. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You smell so good in the rain,” he explained. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smell of earth and wet ash in the rain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rain dampened the city from the Feast of the Circumcision to New Year’s Eve. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rain falls so softly, almost soundlessly, but to Werner it roars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a single breath of stillness before a soldier in a black rain poncho rapped on the bus door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I hope the day will come when the wealthy developed countries stop buying timber from countries containing the tropical rain forests of the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we go out, the rain at once soaks through our overcoat and clothing;—and we remain wet all the time we are in the line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an immense pile of corn—left out in the rain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, it rains, it pours, Noah himself would be dismayed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart in my mouth, I wiped the rain from my eyes and looked again and saw that it was a priest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the winter is over and the rain keeps up it won’t be fun up here. How long is it before young Catherine?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Better get moving, Lawrence, there’s a big rain coming.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted into the rain as I grabbed her arm and dragged her inside. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched Yossarian into the back seat, and the car roared away and weaved through the rain and muddy fog to a police station. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One day a hard rain fell, and Cole stayed inside the tent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

With nightfall the day’s heat had given way to heavy rain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Stop worrying, Oliver,” said Alicia soothingly, “we don’t mind a bit of rain.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The troops marched by, then broke formation, and began to spread out through the village looking for shelter from the rain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the smell of the warm rain came in, and a burst of wind, so that a little breath seemed to move across the statue, and light touched the colored walls. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had passed, and the sun peeked from behind shifting clouds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He saw only rain bending the branches of the hemlocks and running in rivulets down their trunks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The rain is good too: it will stifle the fires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It rained briefly in the night, a light patter on the tarp. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I heard a sound like metal rain, and when I opened my eyes, we were surrounded by wreckage. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had taken more boards from the top of the raft and had made a large trough that would catch the rain. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom invites your friends inside when it’s raining. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who taught me how to put down roots, and thrive on both sun and rain, and understand what it is to bloom. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I fill her water station from a barrel in the center of the room, and a fine mist appears, raining down on her soft skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The main entrance to the wire chicken coop was guarded as always by two local policemen who looked as if they were made of stone under the rain, with raincoats and rubber boots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just a jumble of pictures all moving faster than rain itself. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

After heavy rains, I would wake to this same odor, the walls damp with condensation. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another cluttered, seething breath sounded over the endless rain splatter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

No one else was parked there, so I was sure it was off limits, but I decided I would get directions inside instead of circling around in the rain like an idiot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon a light rain begins to fall, and Mrs. Fiester yells, “Oh no! Girls! Please run down to the beach and collect my towels.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Lights blazed everywhere as shawls of rain unfurled around them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I pulled the anchor and we drifted across the marina's basin in the rain until Hamilton was satisfied that no one was following. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Snaps. And there’s heavy rain coming, I think.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It certainly wasn’t a driving rain, like you see during the monsoons. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then when it looked like the rain would keep on and on forever it suddenly stopped. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At Emily’s third soccer game, Bridge and Tab stood together in a drizzling rain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In spite of the rain and the throbbing pulse down his foreleg, he felt ready to sleep where he was, stretched upon the planking. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other rabbits began to appear through the rain: Acorn, clearly frightened, but determined not to run; Dandelion encouraging Pipkin; Speedwell and Hawkbit making toward Kehaar—the only creature visible above the ground haze. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had let up, so he rolled his clothes into a bundle and crawled outside the tent to dress. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It looked like it was going to rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The weather was getting colder and wetter, the nights darker, but no amount of mud, wind, or rain could tarnish Harry’s wonderful vision of finally winning the huge, silver Quidditch Cup. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw some animals too, but I dismissed the sight as illusion crafted by rain and shadow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The grand gate tore apart as if made of paper, scattering tiles and stone on the earth like sudden rain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

By noon the rain was long gone and the sun was the hottest I’d felt it all summer. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain began to ease off and he spurred the horse to a trot. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the rainy season from July to October, heavy rains fall in the central African highlands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, it seemed like there was no sound at all except the rain dripping through the trees above us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could see Penny, still in her little yellow duck pajamas and now a yellow rain hat, standing behind him. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Do you notice it’s raining harder than ever? I’ve got enough grass in my stomach for a bit. We’ll go down again now, but let’s keep to ourselves for a while.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go take care of my canoe. It will rain soon, so you must go back to the hut.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And there was the patter of okapi feet and the murmur of a fresh jungle rain, like other hoofs, falling upon the summer-starched grass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re wide awake, the rain hits now, we will be slow and careful. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from somewhere, within the sound of the rain falling, he could hear it approaching like a summer flash flood, the rumble still faint and distant, floodwa- ter boiling down a narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marco offers her his arm, which she takes, and they set off down the street in the softly falling rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Behind them the sky had turned dark, and for the first time in over a hundred years, a drop of rain fell into the empty lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The sand slid whining under; the blue hills drifted by, drifted by, leaving their home behind, the raining pillars, the caged flowers, the singing books, the whispering floor creeks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few days, when it did not rain, Papa, Mama, and Roberto left the cabin early in the morning to look for work. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was rain that meant business, and currently its business was turning the garden into a muddy, wet soup. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“No rain. Behind come the tigers. Ahead awaits your dragon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Africa has smaller areas of tropical rain forest than does Southeast Asia, and no temperate habitats at all beyond latitude 37 degrees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A voice she recognizes even before she turns to find Marco standing behind her, completely drenched in rain, droplets cascading from the brim of his bowler hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Luckily, by then it had stopped raining, so we got to have a real campfire cookout. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soil and rock and river and turf blew up in a furious roar, then fell back to the cratered earth like harsh black rain. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The yard was already flooded and the rain was slashing down. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On August 1, torrents of rain descended on the Flint Creek watershed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was bright outside on this clear day after the night’s rain, but the windows of the cottage were small, and woven curtains were drawn across. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The increasing rain pulls stray feathers from her wings and pins them to the mud below. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He sat in the gray light studying Goree’s map, smelling rain, thinking that a little rain now would be marvelous, cool them, cool the battle fever, settle the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get rained on going to get it and be soaking wet and cold after that. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At present, the blood rain’s falling and we’re on the beach below the monkey segment, far too close to the fog for my liking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few drops of rain started to fall, but she barely felt them because she was gone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The air felt thick and damp, like the silence that followed the screaming and crying and sirens.The rain had slowed to a drizzle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His hair is damp with a few drops of rain, the silver streak shining white. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And from then on until the next rains the earth dried and the streams stopped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a time the morning seemed to brighten, the sky going to a lighter shade of silver, but then the rains came back hard and steady. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer came with the sound—an almost quiet moan mixed with a sharp tinkling that he realized was the wind pushing water spray ahead of it in a kind of horizontal frothy rain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe it'll rain so hard it will fill up the whole lake," said Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But all was quiet and they grew drowsy and fell asleep, while outside the rain settled in for the morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the rain had set in with a fury. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Every year when the rains stopped and the pond near the village dried up, Nya's family moved from their home to a camp near the big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noted in his journal that it rained for a week straight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Otis,” I hollered at him over the rain, “come on, we’re going inside.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stdnes and spears and pots of burning pitch could be rained down on them from above, and all they could do was cling desperately to the ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even though the rain had stopped, we could barely walk as far as the Kwenge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel opens and closes his hands, with the tickle of rain on the outside, then inside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The grass is damp beneath my feet, the air cool, heavy with the scent of rain and roses. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had turned to freezing rain and the windshield was icing up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then one week I was walking home from my bus stop in the rain when, from behind, someone said, “Where you going?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Melting ice dripped down all about them, a slower sort of rain with its own soft music. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rain droplets grew larger and drove stinging along. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shattering of the jug created thunder, and the water pouring forth was the rain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He places his bowler hat on his head and takes Isobel’s arm as they leave the warmth of the café, stepping out once again into the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We were all hanging around the house, waiting for the rain to quit, when the mail arrived. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He ties his horse to a sapling and sloshes back in driving rain to the place where the woman fell. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mvúla—a pale white termite that comes out after a rain—is what people here call Rachel, because she’s so pallid. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was a mere drizzle, slowing every second, the sky brighter through the clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The night was bleak and rain streaked the windows of the train, distorting the lights beyond, until the lights were gone. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They worked at night, in rain, in stifling heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rain has been dreadful, with cloud at 1000 feet and visibility next to nothing in the river valleys where the mist hangs—no one could land here anyway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The ground was muddy from all the rain, and the mist made it hard to see where we were going. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I came to offer you a ride because it’s raining." The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Through all the morning classes with Herr Liszt, the rain continued. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was obvious that the other tire might go at any moment, and it was Sunday and it was raining and it was Oregon. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles after Salcedo, my lights single it out, the ancient anacahuita tree, dripping in the rain, most of its pods gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well,” she said, “if it rains, it rains.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The forecast called for clouds and intermittent rain all day. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The rain turned to ice as it lashed my arms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I requested somebody from Magical Maintenance to sort out my office, Cattermole. It’s still raining in there.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I start running as if rain is never going to drip on me. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or would it be possible to set them out somewhere—up the hillside, with a cover over them to keep the rain off—until they lost their radioactivity? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kendra walked out to the back porch, shielded from the rain by the overhang. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The rain was still slapping the leaves and running down my arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As for the floor, you couldn’t have found a greater confusion if the ceiling had been lifted off and the sky had rained down ticket stubs and newspapers and Baby Ruth wrappers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She draped silk scarves and wax paper over the lens; she tried shooting in fog, in heavy rain, in the smoke-filled lounge of the bowling alley. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I hung in the air, descending more slowly than the rain, falling sideways, falling sideways. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The picture side showed a scarlet macaw posed on a mossy branch in a beautiful rain forest. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He says the rain makes everything heavier but what’s the use of complaining. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

One is guarding me, striking me, stomping me, raining punches down upon me, grinning all the while in a crazed and chilling way. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thin drum of rain on the metal roof and the slow darkness falling over everything. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

This was but the prelude to more, for each rain washed more of the insecticide into the river, killing more fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his breath came between his chattering teeth in gusts, rising above the rain and the winds that swished down the corridors; at other times I had to bend to listen. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think you’re mighty smart,” she said, and when he continued to laugh at her she said uneasily, “I wonder what’s taking your brother so long. Look, the rain’s stopped.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I love a witchy, dark, gloomy autumn day, when it rains from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The lawns were dark and drenched with the heavy rain, and the trees had a shrouded humped appearance. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about the rain is that you can’t stop it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Fog, cloud cover, blizzard conditions, rain, and foul weather of every description often hid the sun and stars from Worsley’s sight. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was high from the rain, and black and smooth. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was scrunched over on the other side of the seat, leaning against the window, looking out at the rain. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It had rained recently and the earth was soft underfoot and he kept his eye on the ground and before long he stopped and picked up an arrowhead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Heavy rain was still splattering against the window as he got dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt; they would change into their school robes on the Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Desert peoples being sensitive to rain,” she said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost nothing is left for the Peruvian coast, which sits in the mountains’ rain shadow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you not see the crops are dead? There has been no rain and the river is dry.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie told them about being a majorette in tenth grade and marching in the Memorial Day parade in the rain. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The rain dripped heavily from the thick branches. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Never rained, never snowed, never got too hot or too cold. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was much shelling and many rockets in the rain and machine-gun and rifle fire all along the line. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rain provided the Prime Minister’s cover, as it turned out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just in time too, because the sky split open and the rain fell. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all the while, as I ran, I tried to remember the song Teresita said we must sing if we came upon the warlock—the song of the birds and the rain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

However, during his third night in the warren it rained for three or four hours and puddles formed on the track. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biri, a famous rain priestess, and her two brothers had founded the eland clan. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of footsteps were approaching, like falling rain from a thunderstorm. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Had I been at home that afternoon and not with Zephyr raining down bad luck, I know everything would’ve been different. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at the droplets of rain beginning to fall against the window. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the middle of the night, I woke to this huge sound—like rain, but not really like rain. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we got out of the club it was almost 6:30, an hour past sunset, not that you could have seen it that day with the rain. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, when my brothers were home all day with me, the three of us would wait until the rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She helps me clean, and when the floor is tidy, the cloths rinsed out, and I’m dry from the rain, we lie down on the bed and wait for the Gestapo to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The elevations of the higher ones generate rain in the mountains, so the islands are heavily weathered and have deep soils and permanent streams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To protect him from the sun and rain, a tent was put up over his canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When the rain started back up that afternoon, it was even harder than the night before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"They put twelve soups on the tray by mistake and Lenny and I stuffed down so many hotdogs while we were waiting for the rain to stop I couldn't eat another mouthful." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She fought wind and rain to get back to the bridge, but the storm was the master. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Gnarled old vines cover half the façade of the house, and the yellowish stones are smoothed from rain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Two attendants, pursued by a pack of photographers, hurried past with their heads bent against the rain and a stretcher between them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All that month there is heat and wild rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of it evaporates into the air, where it creates acid rain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Never a tremor of wind, or a splash of rain, no errant snowflake comes to stain that heaven, so calm, so vaporless, the world of light. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a Connecticut summer two weeks without rain is a dry spell and four a drought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room’s decor is like a movie set of a tropical rain forest. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It's going to be dark soon. I mean, it's terribly dark already. The rain's washing away the whole city, and I won’t even be able to reach my fridge, let alone my coffeepot. Basta!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like angry drops of rain against a windshield. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lizzie said nothing at all as the metallic fingers of the rain pattered about as hard as they could without breaking the glass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I did not mind the rain because it meant I could sleep in the next morning. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

By then, the rain was driving down, hard. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mixed up with the scents of Doc’s and Gran’s handmade potions, the whole place smelled like spice-filled woods after a hard rain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was ruminating on these things as she swept the stairwell — she always worked from top to bottom — when it started to rain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Leaning away from the rain under the shallow front porch, Jacob Black stood behind his father’s wheelchair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was late, they were both ready for bed, and outdoors the rain was coming down in a great wet roar. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined people jumping out the windows, raining down onto the broad sidewalks and cement basketball courts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As the summer days grew hotter and hotter, Chandra and I would stand in the courtyard every afternoon, looking up at the sky, waiting for the rains to cool us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was raining out, and the twins had been moping around all afternoon. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain’s wailing down on him, stooping him more and more with every step. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on the one thing I could be thankful for—the thick haze of rain clouds that kept the sun from beating down on you and the rest of us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing out there in the rain?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie mopped the rain off her face and looked back at him with equal reproach. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sky was a density of dark and blustery rain clouds that passed by without delivering rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At some time, the rain ceased, but now all was black, and our progress slow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The rain had washed the lawns, and the grasses and hedges shone emerald green. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Mr. Das’s workshop we listened to the rain beat steadily on the tin roof. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, but the air was heavy with moisture and bitterly cold. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As stray drops began to pelt her head, she tore through the prairie, ahead of the rain, not stopping to look out for the kittens. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I sat for a long time with my eyes shut, listening to the rain and the wipers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She was standing in front of the synagogue entrance, staring up at the doorway from the sidewalk, lost in thought, the rain billowing into puddles around her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe they will attack now that the rains have started. We will have the snow soon. What about your countrymen? Will there be other Americans besides yourself?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Of what? Getting wet? It was perfectly dry down there. We haven’t had rain for days.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know how people are always swooning over that kiss in the movie The Notebook, the one in the rain? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They brought rain, but depending on the dragon’s temperament, it could be good rain or bad rain. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She drove fast into the empty rest area, the rain darkening the sky. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sky above is grey but bright, despite the soft rain that is beginning to fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Dear Polo, we are so glad we will see you in a mere matter of hours. We miss you. We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

All that night it fell, warm rain, dripping from the eaves and pattering at my window, while I lay flat on my back with my eyes wide open, listening. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had started raining harder, and of course I didn’t have an umbrella. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The little collection of fruit- bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was warning that the chance of rain was 80 percent, so it was a good night to stay inside. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she left, I lay on the empty cot while rain crashed on the tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large silver drops of rain hissed on the pavement. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the wind died away and the rain came streaming down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pile had been accumulating since 1917, and because the city received little rain to wash it down, it was enormous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had written to me about how it rained off and on in Vietnam, but Vietnam rain couldn’t top Brooklyn chill in early October. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She gripped the rain gutter with both hands. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The bushes kept the wind out and, most of the time, the rain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then the rains came, black and blinding, and forecastle and stemcastle both vanished behind a wall of water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Points behind my eyes ached with the coming rain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What I want to do is go to Terabithia,” she said, looking out mournfully at the pouring rain. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But we never got a chance to fly it, because whenever Father was free, it was raining. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim cries then, tears pouring out faster than the rain can wash away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear rain slashing at the warehouse’s windows. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the kind of rain you could go out in—it was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the sky and splashed where it landed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It’s a crisp December night and a fine rain is just starting to fall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little hot in here, isn’t it? The rain has stopped; maybe we should go outside for some air?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes the rain stops, though, the sun comes out, the birds start to sing again—all those worms oozing up through the wet mud. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to sit there, with my hands in my lap, watching the rain, watching Maxim with his back turned to me, standing by the window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has rained during the night; the grass to either side is damp, the air humid. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wear and tear on the statue. It can’t be easy to hold up the weight of the world in the wind and rain year after year—especially when it’s attached by one bolt.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

No air could come in, but, stubbornly enough, rain and snow could get in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My reflection in the mirror catches my eye; my makeup from the tournament earlier now looks smeared and smoky, dampened by the rain, and my hair hangs in wet strands of color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the rain and the wind pattered and howled through the mountain pass, but in the inn, at the Sign of the Chariot, all was warm and comfortable. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed open the front door before Hadley could protest, and Delilah zoomed inside, happy to escape the rain. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I felt like the Tin Man, who’d been left out in the rain to rust, in need of some serious oil for his joints. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When Ruth and I slept down here, the far corner of the cellar went muddy in a heavy rain. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was rain and sun in proportion so that the seed would sprout in the land and the stalk bear grain, he did not consider himself poor. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The cloudy skies and pouring rain, however, couldn’t dampen my sunny mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even the air seemed still, slowly rousing itself after the rain. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the rain has stopped, it's still damp, the kind of frigid humidity that makes you feel icicled and wet all the way through. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This was the first day all summer it had rained hard enough to stop work. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Cherangani Hills appeared in the distance, a line of mountains on the edge of the Rift, humpy and green, crushed under an indwelling sweep of rain clouds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but hope she had a tent pitched out here somewhere on some little piece of land two feet higher than everything else, keeping the rain off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

If there were gods in this trackless wilderness of stone and sand and red clay, they were hard dry gods, deaf to prayers for rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rain is finally gone, its work done. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had just washed everything, seeming to sharpen the plants’ smells. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solution seemed obvious to me: The worms always came when it rained, and it was easy enough to make some rain for them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When Toby called out her name, she didn’t answer—just stood there with her arms out, trying to catch the rain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I told her she could stay in my taxi with her laundry and I would wait outside until the rain stopped. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

While the rain forest had more kinds of animals than any other habitat—with many species still undiscovered—they were often difficult to see. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The rain was just a mist as I walked to the parking lot, but I was happier when I was in the dry cab. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had rained while they were in the restaurant. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lucky for us, the storm blew through swiftly, the rain quit, and the dinghy didn’t sink. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

During air raids, the young gunners wore steel helmets to protect them from the razor-sharp shrapnel that rained down as the shells exploded. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cold rain slanted down onto the tar paper and onto the lone figure sitting on the ledge overlooking the empty street below. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worms are not plentiful on the downs and there had been no rain for days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them sped across the waters like rain clouds on the way to work. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There’s been next to no rain to disturb the piles of ash left by the attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We decided we’d set up shop nearby, so you wouldn’t have to walk far in the rain. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As he added branches to keep the faltering flames alive, he watched the rain pelt the icy slate- gray waters of the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sent a valentine back that said: Dry is the desert, Wet is the rain, Your love for me Is not in vain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s been twenty-five years, but every time it rains I think about my boy.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Oh, and by the way, the loons are disappearing everywhere because their lakes are dying from acid rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They said bye to Tess and as the rain began to sprinkle down, Ernie and Genie scrambled back up the hill. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, the air grew warmer but the rain came daily. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A light show of green flashes rained down over us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up, and the first drops of rain tapped against the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was hot and good after the rain and the clouds from the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It'sort of looked like it was going to rain, but I went for this walk anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The rain began at dawn, abruptly, as if the sky had turned to water. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain ran down his hair into his shirt; it had grown below his ears and touched his neck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She flies against the rain, eyes fixed on the horizon, hoping to see the hulking form of the RV coming to save her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now he was standing under a tree with his dog, as though sheltering from a shower of rain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rain had seeped into the garbage cans and in the alley there was the rank odor of wet refuse. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When it rains, you are nearly drowned and wish to be dry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took his kids camping almost every weekend, even when it rained. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had forked up in the air for him, like trees branching in the night, and rained down sparks. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was pressure in the air; rain coming, sometime soon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tidings sat, tall and straight, on the tractor—as determined as General Sherman marching through Georgia—and cut the grass between rain showers. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Glass was breaking, raining down like tears against the asphalt. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The mist in the trees had turned to moisture and dripped upon my bare head like a thin rain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You shouldn’t light candles in the middle of the woods, especially if it hasn’t rained in days, but we’re standing in a small clearing and Kaori insists it’s vital to the ceremony. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I kept walking, sloshing angrily through the rain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After another day, the rain stopped, but the parade of treasure hunters from the mainland did not. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“All right. I’m afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tortoise told Dog he would tell no one as long as Dog took him to the sky every day until the rains came and the famine ended. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rain is pouring down all over Miss Celia, but she doesn’t care. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Not much to grip, and it is damp from rain. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t raining, but my skin felt clammy and cold to the touch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But they could not stand brooding in the chilly rain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When it rains, we skirt puddles from leaking roofs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the bright-colored leaves became dull brown when the cold fall rains began. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again he breathed in the green in the strawberry runners, the rain in the cedar duff, and the salt water. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sun was held back by rain clouds the morning Frightful saw Sam and Mole come home from their wanderings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a rain catcher, a fifty-litre plastic bag, a blanket and the survival manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through mirrored sunglasses, he’s watching the sky, which is still overcast, though it’s not raining anymore. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

My face is all wet like the rain has come inside. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

On March 14, four days after the two canoes were destroyed, the group woke up to more heavy rain. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Howard announced that as long as it wasn’t raining at the time of the race, his horse would go. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flying rain had ceased for a time, and the sun gleamed up above; but all the lower city was still wrapped in a smouldering reek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They were falling like rain and they were hitting me as they fell and I had their blood all over me and I couldn’t find a place to protect myself. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh, nonsense! The weather’s changed. It’ll be spring before we know it. Thank the good Lord, all that rain’s over and done with.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

However, I was held up on my way to the airport by heavy rain and I missed the plane. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forms and figures loomed out of the rain: boulders in our path, gruesome as ogres to my susceptible wits, hulking, pocked and eyed with limpets, shaggy with weeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, the clouds have darkened, but the rain has stopped. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A wind began to come up, flapping and gusting at the canvas of the tents and the flags, and a cold rain spat down on them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed for rain, but the sun kept beating down, turning the puddles into mud. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the raised part of the near end Hazel was crouching, his ears drooping on either side of his head and his flattened fur completely black with rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was lightning in the sky and thunder and the smell of rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rain continued sporadically, so that by Wednesday the creek had swollen to the trunk of the crab apple and they were running through ankle-deep water to make their flight into Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Close to dawn the rain stopped and there was a softness after the rain, almost a warmth, and that brought the mosquitoes back for one more run. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t occur to me until later that dwelling in the realm of the spirits could bring danger, especially to an ugly girl in a time when the rains didn’t come. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As they leave Havana, a brisk rain falls, rattling the tin bus. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in all of June it didn't rain but four days. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boards are rough and smell of rain and old wood. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true there was rain, but it wasn’t so very hard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain stopped, we marched back to the camp, covered in mud up to our waists. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Though wind and rain had worn its features some, it looked just like a giant who’d sunk up to its neck in the lake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure says, “I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A couple of people with big hiking backpacks stood against the wall, just out of the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As the rain fell again, the ground softened. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She came in, wet and shaking from the winter rain, looking like she had slept no more than I had. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Don’t double the I. When the rain began, Pongo insisted that the Drones’ outing be canceled. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained so hard that the little creeks filled with water, and the river would be full of fallen trees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the clouds, turning my face to the pounding rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hellfire raining down on her out of the sky and she held it off with a brolly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Yet even as they were bundling him Outside, saddling the horses in the rain, and tying his hands with a length of coarse rope, Tyrion Lannister was not truly afraid. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Malcolm hauled the rucksack along and got out the same side, into the bitter wind and the teeming rain. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see the sun, for in superstitious fashion I looked upon rain as an omen of ill-will, and the leaden skies of London had made me silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the rain is back . . . loud on the windows. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They were followed by rain, buckets and buckets of rain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thaw and spring rains had turned parts of the roadway into muddy sloughs, and despite the coachman’s skill, early on the last morning they were stuck fast. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Morning, Turner III. Did you enjoy the rain last night?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I set to the dumpling on my plate while the rain fell steadily on the roof. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, for days on end, high explosives poured from the sky like metal rain. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was thinning away and the girl was walking in the centre of the sidewalk with her head up and the few drops falling on her face. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blowing rain lashed at Jon's face as he spurred his horse across the swollen stream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The air was heavy, like everything was raining. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t hold our breath for rain, but a hot breeze blew through the tree house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rain stopped, leaving the air thicker than it had been before it started, both soupy and charged. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that rain drummed against the windows, a dreamy kind of lullaby that made it hard to concentrate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But at last he was gone, and only the rain kept drumming its wet fingers on Meggie’s window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These falling from the tree with a sound like rain, all at once there came a sweet fragrance, while the tree, swaying, put forth leaves of rosy fire and white flowers like stars. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It bent trunks and shook branches and then—thunk thunk thunk!—pinecones began raining down. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Finding somebody to work in the rain wasn’t easy, but Curly eventually hooked up with an outfit in Bonita Springs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pikes, the man of ten thousand faces, a fury, a smoke, a blue fog, a white rain, a bat, a gargoyle, a monster, that was Pikes! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isa heard the rain stick’s pebbles shift back and forth on the water wall. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Above us, rain drummed on the canvas awning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were sad, and the gray rains fell unceasingly, and there was no joy in the land. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

So I had to live with the muffled sounds of wind and rain, and of street and air traffic. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Light rain fell like dew on her, moistening her dress against her shoulders, her rounded belly, her hips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s almost dawn, the light outside is just beginning to tinge grey, and the rain of the last several days is still battering against the window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his private guards close around him, I break away, struggling against the sea of guests rushing indoors out of the rain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the rain fell hard, and while they slept, no one had any idea that the river was quickly and steadily rising. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It had survived heavy snows, sheets of rain, and damaging hail. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, the kids and Joyce and his father were all under one roof, sitting in front of the fire right now, waiting for him to come in out of the rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the driving rain Tristran and the coach driver hitched the horses to the carriage and set off. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As you head south, toward Zaire, the land rises and forms hills, and the forest begins to spread away from the rivers and thickens into a closed canopy, and you enter the rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You missed them. I heard they won’t be back till spring, after the rains. When the sun’s here to stay for a while. Figure on late May.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Later he’d found himself lying on a little rise, face-up, tasting the field in his mouth, listening to the rain and explosions and bubbling sounds. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain made the treasure more beautiful still. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Spender took half an hour, swimming in one of the pools which was filled with the seasonal rain, waiting for the pursuers to catch up with him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Cole watched the boat disappear into the rain, he picked up a strand of kelp off the shore and gave it a hard fling. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“But how’d you get out of the house like that, late at night and in the rain and everything? Did your dad know?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s an indication of rain, of a water source for those who don’t have mentors as smart as Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the first week of May a powerful storm dropped an ocean of rain on Chicago and again caused the Chicago River to reverse flow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A trickle of blood ran slowly down, joining the rain puddles still lying on the steps. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite the threat of rain, the ceremony had gone off perfectly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

An exchange was made there in the rain—one for one. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain fell; the sun shone, a light rain fell once more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody was, since it didn’t have to do with rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one in which a posse of Touchable Policemen crossed the Meenachal River, sluggish and swollen with recent rain, and picked their way through the wet undergrowth, clumping into the Heart of Darkness. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, most dragons are good creatures who bring rain to the farmers when they soar up from the water and fly through the sky. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their wake, she could smell wildflowers and fresh rain. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stream gurgled out of the rain forest, and it was a strange color, milky with volcanic dust. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I certainly am not one to leave anyone sitting out in the rain! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it rained, which was almost every day for a while, his dirt roof with sunflowers growing in it leaked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain kept people away, so the four of us who were working took turns trying to sing our favorite songs of 1987. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The night air is heavy as a blanket and smells like rain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

You squeeze your brain one way, your imagination the other way, and see your mother peeking out the holes of crumbling abandoned buildings to stay dry when it snowed or rained. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house shakes, teetering, in the wind and rains violent game. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

After a day of pelting rain, the lights of the inn were the most welcoming sight she had seen in her time on the Earth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a storm in the air, and as I hurried down the sidewalk, the first patter of rain came, and in the distance, I saw lightning. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn the rain began: fine misty rain blowing cold and clean in soft mountain air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it was more like a run to the car, because the rain was coming down hard. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon as we trudged along we spotted a bright bouquet of color up ahead, glowing dimly through the rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the big windows, a freezing rain is falling. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, they’d had an evening of soft rain and nothing had come in the shelter—not a drop. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"There is a man," said the Lord Primus, shouting to be heard now over the rain, the wind whipping the words from his lips. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Silver pins of rain fell around us as we left the church. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We lay quietly on the bed for a few more minutes, listening to the rain. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the herbicides rain down on forest and field, on marsh and rangeland, they are bringing about marked changes and even permanent destruction of wildlife habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was pretty—gray blue from the rain. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I blinked the rain out of my eyes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After the falling the hallway smelled like Kay's perfume whenever it rained so we moved again to the second floor of a pink house on Madison Street. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I opened the back window and smelled the rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rain came almost at the exact spot where the crack was that had clipped her the day before. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The road to Marsabit was unpaved, and heavy rains could make it impassable. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost didn’t hear him over the rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A scream echoed through the forest night, and the longsword shivered into a hundred brittle pieces, the shards scattering like a rain of needles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I slept here most of last night—after the rain started. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rain kept pouring, beating against the windows. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So the God of the Vine was born of fire and nursed by rain, the hard burning heat that ripens the grapes and the water that keeps the plant alive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left the rain behind and emerged into a landscape of smoke and noise. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to rain,” Mrs. Potts said, but then she relented because she knew it would keep me amused for a while. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If it was raining, they leaned on the windowsill, drinking warm, fizzy orange Fanta, and watched the swollen rain droplets trickle down the glass. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was halted by another grenade that exploded, causing his remains and blood to sprinkle like rain on the nearby leaves and bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The rhythm of the rain on the windshield of Dad’s truck would almost be soothing if I weren’t so crazed with anticipation. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Even her gown feels the same as it did, cascading around her and no longer wet from the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Drink all you can, both of you, before the rain stops.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the sweltering heat of the Equator, Sudanese people spend most of their time outdoors when it’s not raining. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like when it rains on a day he has an Ultimate game. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Right as the rain threatening to fall tomorrow.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was raining lightly, and she wore a red silk scarf. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We joined others. on the path again, everyone wet and weighed down with rain. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I went on up the steps, then stopped under the pediment, out of the rain, to watch the group make its way to the car. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It stretched under the bridge, out of the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The sound of the beating rain filled Jonathan with sorrow. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hear old Miss Walter talking and Minny say, “What you think I am? A chauffeur? I ain’t driving you to no country club in the pouring rain.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rain battered the car, and the wipers danced back and forth, never really clearing the windshield. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining when Fina and I woke up, but now the air is clean and there’s a breeze whipping around the bright morning like Boomer zigzagging after a squirrel. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got under some cedars, where the rain didn’t come much, only dripping now and then, where I could see when they got through and went away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rains that had doused the travelers repeatedly on their journey had fed into the rivers, making them particularly treacherous to cross. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

By the time the rain stopped, it was light. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The rain cloud to Grace’s sunshine,” Maya sniffled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But the wind answered with its customary howl, which I could not translate, the rain was busy with its endless plunge, and the clouds were in a hurry to be somewhere else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the rain starts to pound the ceiling. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Animals of the rain forest: left: The slow-moving sloth hangs out in the canopy; right: Is it a branch or a bug? Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Many linger to pass additional condolences on to Lainie, though some move off to seek shelter from the rain before the last of the dirt has settled. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to be caught delivering or writing orders in the, rain either, rain that had' been threatening all during that warm October morning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I run into school, shielding myself from the rain with my backpack held up above my head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Lourdes tries for nearly an hour to telephone her mother in Santa Teresa del Mar, but the operator tells her that the rains have knocked out the phone lines on the northwest coast of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One after another the doors of the portables opened and the teachers looked out, staring into the dense rain, trying to spot the cause of all this commotion. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only notice I took of my surroundings was when it rained, because then I could not bring out my lute to play, and that pained me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She took her time unlocking the door and let the rain run over her plaited hair and past her eyes and down her cheeks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She...it...had landed on a gate, and was curved over it backward, hair streaming long, ginger blossoms raining down from it like little flames. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mam tells us there was a terrible flood, that the rain came down the lane and poured in under our door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes were everywhere, though their high-pitched whirring was particularly loud near rain barrels, gutters, and open sewers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The rain had been swept away with the darkness. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning a cold rain was falling. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She heard the rain pattering against the locked door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Barely fifty feet away, the giant Spirit Bear stood motionless in the rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“The rain is getting into her eyes. Help me close her eyes. It’s getting into her mouth. She’s going to choke.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the purpose of the Gathering. But it will not rain today.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Hesitating, he pulled the door wide, and rain fell cold upon his face. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning it was raining and a hard wind was rattling the glass at the rear of the building. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well,” Heidi says, taking off her rain boots and pulling up two wool socks. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It slid in the mud on the ground from the rain the night before. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Her words fell in between the sheets of rain like downed planes: defeated, useless. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A gentle rain sprang from the fluted pillar tops, cooling the scorched air, falling gently on her. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They become two rivers: one flowing right, to the shave-tattoo-uniform; one flowing left, to the chimney, evaporating into the air we breathe, raining into the mud we walk in. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The rain quickly went from a sprinkle to a downpour, thundering against the leaves and trenching water through the soil. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s right, but what I’m thinking is, How will I do this in the rain? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When it rains, the flat lands fill with standing water and our villages become like swamps. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Jory was back among them, a red rain flying from his sword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What that?” she asked Bill one rainy night as she pointed to the rain slicker he wore. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you see clouds, expect rain. If you see cracks, lift your feet. If you see houses, expect them to be the same houses every day, because houses don't move. They don't change." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was December, and there was enough rain. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, but it left them clammy and cold. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was late in the day when she began singing the song as she moved among the whispering pillars of rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, she was weeping again now; it did, indeed, rain on that marriage.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heavy rain followed, with thunder and lightning that lasted for less than fifteen minutes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The dome shot up like the lid of a teapot and shattered into a billion pieces, raining rubble over the city. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rain squalls, now past, have rinsed the haze from the atmosphere, and distant, backlit hills stand out in crisp detail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cambodia’s tropical climate is dictated by the monsoons, which bring heavy rain from May to October. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a torrent of sand, looking like a rain cloud, that came in from the northwest and turned the place so dark in the afternoon light that the street lamps suddenly started glowing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was rain on the boy’s face, running down like tears. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

All the while that they dwelt there the sun shone clear, save for a gentle rain that fell at times, and passed away leaving all things fresh and clean. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rain poured until men ducked their heads in a crooked elbow to breathe. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had finally started, gently tapping against the roof. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There they were somewhat sheltered from wind and rain. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We settled down on chairs in the mess tent with a bottle of scotch whisky, while the rain splattered down and hissed through the leaves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained so hard, so long and so incessantly that the thought of a period of no rain provoked a mild wonder. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A breeze could lift a spark, start a blaze. It wouldn’t take much. There hasn’t been enough rain.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The downdraft arrived, that eerie second before a big storm hits, just before the wind swoops through and brings in the hard rain. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But today it was raining and cold, and they were driving in a different direction. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the back yard With three red Chickens, the goat With a tin can For a bell drinks From a rain puddle. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

PE classes have to be held outside, rain or shine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

At Bonao the torrential rains start again and the windshield wipers can’t keep pace with the waves of water washing over us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caravans of water-slicked black carriages lined the streets outside the city’s train stations, their red waiting lights haloed by the rain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were as clean as rain, and again I remembered the waterfall. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Colonel Aureliano Buendía was finishing the poem about the man who is lost in the rain when the girl came into his room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I used to like to walk in the rain.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time there were three kings who went to Mwari and asked for the ceremonial stone that brings rain when needed,” Nhamo said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drumming of the rain against the hoods of their cages had the ravens squawking and fluttering. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"When I was young, we always had rain," Aunty Silver says, motioning out the window at a stretch of cracked earth. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Daddy lost the back fields to the rain last month, but the majority bloomed unharmed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, looked out at the rain. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

That night, a cool rain began to fall. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And as he stood in the rain, Joe’s feelings began to shift—moving around like notes on a musical staff, bits and pieces of new themes starting to fall into place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then with a quick movement she opened the umbrella, though it was not raining, and thrust it over her head. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It’s raining outside, and Bob does not like damp feet. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The tapping of rain carried his words away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pieces of ceiling snapped and cracked and rained from above. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At least the rain had stopped with the morning, but the sky was cloudy and it seemed likely that the bad weather would be back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of rain was always loud in the tent, as the raindrops pelted the tarp like little torpedoes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are also other things to look at: cars, boats and the rain. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the end, we have to walk about a million miles through the rain to get to the school, but I guess those cowboy hats are good for something after all. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I hopped in my car and blew out of Jacksonville and drove all day in the rain like a maniac toward the Keys. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Branch-cracking winds and thunder that shook the bowl of the sky would descend on the island, along with torrents of life-giving rain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water trickled into the dugouts when it rained. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her locker is full of pictures of her cat, Misty, who she found in the rain. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When it did stop raining in Pianosa, it rained in Bologna. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He goes out into the rain, buys himself this night’s kebab and french fries. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

How nature ran on sunlight and rain and the seasons, and how I was part of that system. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola asks me, having to raise her voice over the rain. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

One night, as we sat outside on the mattresses, it began to rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was raining hard again, and great, bruise-coloured clouds hung low over the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She loves watching rain beat on people and lightning chase people inside. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He awoke at six and saw the rain, and it seemed as though he couldn’t bear it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At sunset, clouds piled up like purple mountains, forecasting rain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Heidi puts her rain boots back on and looks me up and down, just like Libby did in my yard right before sending me off on my maiden moron voyage. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As gusts of wind drove the chill deeper into his body, rain kept falling, penetrating his will, seeping into his consciousness, and flooding his soul. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

This was at least three hours before the rain began and the clouds were still all of a brilliant white. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance bombs explode like thunder, slashes lighten the sky, gunfire falls like rain. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Maleeka, your skin is pretty. Like a blue-black sky after it’s rained and rained,” she says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing rain boots, and she has on a pair of flowery Doc Martens. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are no drops of rain on the brim of his hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wildflowers can’t push up, and when they don’t grow, the soil erodes and is carried into the streams by the rain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of the weather, the expedition rode mules and marched for over sixteen hours a day, sometimes through sheets of rain and slippery mud, sometimes under the baking sun. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Besides boll weevils, rain is just about the worst thing that can happen at harvest time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rain turned out to be a blessing for Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the month we had two days of light, steady rain which aroused a final fullness everywhere. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath both sun and rain, with my sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters I will labor. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had been given a real suitcase by the missionary women in school, but it had broken apart in the rain one day. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation rained in softly and comfortably and told the two stowaways that they had the correct age group. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That happened on Sunday in Oregon in the rain, and I hope that evil-looking service-station man may live a thousand years and people the earth with his offspring. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re packing up — it looks like it’s going to rain soon.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

To keep our house whole when wind and rain and sun crumbled the old ones. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that it like to never quit raining. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the noise of the pistons fell away, the wind and rain sounded louder than ever against the windows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was getting to be quite a crowd under my little rain poncho. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way I can pull them back into the park in this rain to find Ziggy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She heard a high-tension crackle and hum from the lights, whose cables swung in the wind, scattering the rain and throwing shadows up over the rocks and down again, like a grotesque jump rope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the soil and the sky and the rain and the sun. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A thunderstorm broke open, and with a strength as mighty as the thirst of crops and animals, the rain poured down on our heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the dark, heavy look of the sky, visible through the roof of the fodder house, it would be an all-day rain. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when a light rain starts falling, they will not leave. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Ess. It looks like the rain is letting up. Let’s go. I just remembered something fun I saw Deen do with Sam when he was teaching him to read, something that might help us.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One day as I walked back from school, it started to rain. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thick clouds conceal the sky, which appears only here and there like the small lakes on a map, and the air threatens rain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had clouded over again and it was raining a little. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I fell a couple of times, tripping over roots sticking out from ground that was ashy and loose in the thinning earth, washed out from the endless rain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

"If it rains like when we dropped in well need shelters all right. And then another thing. We need shelters because of the-" He paused for a moment and they both pushed their anger away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lightning, blood rain, fog, monkeys—those are the first four hours on the clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sleet and rain fell on the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko was mulling his situation, watching the rain stream down, when a lightning bolt zapped a utility pole at the end of the street. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feet shuffle so loud the ceiling sounds ready to rain. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He would buy flowers every time it rained and fill our home with them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The story runs that he was stricken with pneumonia after spending two nights exercising in the winter rain—but the pneumonia was the culmination of another sickness. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Pray for the sunshine, ’cause it will rain. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drizzle has turned into a steady rain now, soaking through my hoodie and drenching my hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Magdalys was staring at the cobblestones, which still glistened from the rain showers earlier. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But her outstretched hand caught a rain gutter, bringing Tally to a sudden halt. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But if it rains? If they lose their way?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He needed his fill of attention, and I didn’t want to bring my cloud over there and rain on all the fun. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed it again and again, sinking and rolling with the light blue sheets twisted around his thighs and ankles, and the excitement of wet smells of rain, and their sweat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond this was the conservatory, with tall glass doors showing them the rain outside, and ferns growing damply around and over wicker furniture. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The morning after that I watched at the window, glass blurred by a drizzling rain, and when I saw the guarded lines of men coming down the street, I ran out to meet Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Slowly then, bending against the rain, Azar and Norman Bowker and Mitchell Sanders began wading again through the deep waters, their eyes down, circling out from where they had found the rucksack. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurries toward me, shaking the rain out of his gingery curls. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I blush even as the rain cools my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We sat, drinking our tea and watching the rain fall on his front porch. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The rain eases up but it’s a full fifteen minutes before it stops completely. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was letting up, and Anatole thought I was well enough to leave my mosquito tent for a few hours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sing the song of the rain, the song of the cave, or was it the song of the butterflies? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She moved away and held her rain hat firmly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Winchell was having tremendous difficulty throwing the ball, and it was hard to know why—the rain, or the nervousness of playing in Memorial Stadium, or his own silent prophecy of failure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her day came with the ill-fated October rains. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But on the edge of a roaring creek, swollen with rain, she slipped. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“When it rains at midnight, take your hat, turn it upside down on a floor in a dark room, and you’ll have God!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal girders looked like dull gray clay in the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But although it had now been raining for several hours, there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood mesmerized by the heat and the luscious scent until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me back to life. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It will keep the rain off your back and the sun from your eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were empty as yet and waiting for the rain. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was better because it wasn’t raining yet, though the clouds were dense and opaque. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘With him it’s always the same. Sick this, dentist that, dead uncle the other. Never rains but it pours.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment Treebeard stood under the rain of the falling spring, and took a deep breath; then he laughed, and passed inside. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“What you hear is not genuine. She makes clouds with one hand, rain with the other. She is trying to trick you, so you will do anything for her.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today . . .” And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds seen drinking and bathing in puddles left by rain a few days after the spraying were inevitably doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Will tried to pierce the darkness and see them more clearly, but the rain filled his eyes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see much in the gray light and the stinging rain. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Up here the country was quite barren and the hills were rocky and hard-baked clay furrowed by the rain. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And Estha, walking on the riverbank, couldn’t feel the wetness of the rain, or the suddenshudder of the cold puppy that had temporarily adopted him and squelched at his side. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We will never make it rain for the people again," Jade Dragon vowed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was thundering on the roof now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A brief flare of happiness went off inside her and hung, raining sparks, until Lefty disappeared around the front of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, but not often, a rain comes to the Salinas Val- O ley in November. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’d just finished eating when the rain that had threatened all morning blew in over the mountains in heavy black thunderheads. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was at the Nikitsu Shrine when the black rain started falling from the sky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a light, misty rain, and across the river, I see the new sparkly tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And think of the poor farmer when it doesn’t rain all year: if there wasn’t an average yearly rainfall of 37 inches in this part of the country, all his crops would wither and die.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever covered the slats when they turned this into a room did a lousy job, so the blanket’s been rained on and reeks of mildew. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And he left the fireside and the warm kitchen, taking up his cloak and going out alone into the drizzling cold rain of winter in the streets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I came walking behind; with me other women, whispering words of comfort that the rain washed away as soon as they were uttered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness, because I still don’t have an umbrella or rain jacket. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It passed over us in the night, dumping a foot of rain and blowing down the weak trees. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At least the drumming of the rain had stopped, and at least the canoe was still lying level on the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

People walk right across the middle of Fifth Avenue in traffic, and the cars honk and the people shout and the rain slurs up all the noise. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard enough when the sun is shining, it’s impossible in this rain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline went over to the window and watched the rain come down. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

A day ago we’d have given up our teeth for a good rain, and now we gnashed them in frustration over the deluge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it is, but I taste it in the air, like far-off rain clouds gathering. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

With Sally snuggled tightly around his neck, he made his way through the rain to the biggest cake he’d ever seen—a fifty-layer-high masterpiece of sugary wonder. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

These are set up underneath the indoors clothesline where the Smeath underwear is hung up to dry when it rains or snows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night there was a storm and I woke to hear the rain lashing the window-panes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Good thing it usually rains in the evenings here, or this whole side of the mountain would be on fire by now....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rain stopped, the sky cleared, and the afternoon suddenly brimmed with sunlight. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not raining. Come on. Mom said go to the car.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you did get close, she’d whip out a plastic rain hat and pull it on. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But, oh, were we happy to come in out of the rain! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so they set off, without saying good-bye to anyone, on a morning that still seemed much too early and smelled of rain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s okay. I’ll take rain and wind and lightning any day over what it’s been like. We’ll just stay in this cave. How about that?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sarah Ruth rocked Edward back and forth, back and forth, and Bryce took out his harmonica and started to play, making his song keep rhythm with the rain. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Despite the rain, the stained glass gathers enough light to fill the cathedral with color. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was loud enough, and long enough, to rise above a second spell of rain that fell after dark. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They’d lost their transportation to Fjerda, and if the shots raining down on them were any indication, they were seriously outnumbered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It rains up to 120 inches a year in some parts of the Smokies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed it outside for the rain to clean. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that it was no longer raining quite so hard. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The spring rains made her edgy, the greenery hurt her eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stars of all colors bursting into the night, silver pin- wheels spinning, golden lances up-up-BOOM! crimson flashes flashing blasting, scarlet showers BOOM! emerald rain BOOM! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wet day—not pouring rain, but misty. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe the men were leaving since it had started raining, I thought. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The rain stopped and the sound of our voices echoed across the city! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rain of August 10 resulted in such a heavy fish kill throughout the river that few remained to become victims of the next surge of poison into the stream, which occurred on August 15. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rain had begun again, dripping down on their heads and shoulders through the dark leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snow falling, gently, effortlessly, covering everything in soft crystal, the mist of moonlight before a rain, blurring the outlines, obliterating color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gregor had loved the rain forest exhibit, and the cafeteria with french fries shaped like dinosaurs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I think this the world’s sun dims between clouds regathering, and soon a flaw of rain runs sparse and hard upriver, spattering the crowds on the Embankment, darkening the sky. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It rained during the night and into the early hours of Saturday morning, leaving behind wet grass and sharp, gusty winds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a tense moment, we stare at each other as the rain drums against the windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gym smelled like rain and stale bread and what she imagined a boys locker room might smell like. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aru braced herself for more tears and rain, but the palace seemed oddly at peace with this statement. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The checkered tile floor became slick with rain and mud, and it took all of my concentration not to slip. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Flying slowly above the tiles, which glistened with the recent rain, she edged the machine into a little gully between a steep tiled roof and the sheer wall of the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the rain blurred her eyes, she cleared them by flashing her nictitating membranes like windshield wipers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a dreary Friday, the rain beat down on the tin roof of the hooch all morning, and we were all down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the wind began to hum, slapping us with sheets of cool rain. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m very young, I have no real friend here in the barn, it’s going to rain all morning and all afternoon, and Fern won’t come in such bad weather. Oh, honestly!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He learned that when he grew tired he made mistakes, and when he made mistakes Pai pounced like the leopard of Upper Egypt, raining curses and blows indiscriminately upon his already aching back. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I gave up, went to the market, and got a decent bargain, since not many people were out in the rain, even managing a skirt for Helena that might be a little large. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly across the terrace toward our house, not caring that the rain is soaking me, vaguely wondering why I refused Blanca’s mother’s offer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It rained the entire time you were gone,” Mom reminded me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sarai told Lazlo some of the better gifts she knew from Great Ellen, and slipped in among them a girl who could make things grow and a boy who could bring rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then nothing to do but wait for the rain to turn to snow and the mud to ice; not long, for I had spent over a month on my way from Mishnory to Turuf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Griffin was light and fast, his gloves were a red blur tapping away at Alfred's face, easy and steady as rain on a roof, pitter-pat, pitter-pat. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done, the rain had stopped, and the thunder rumbled down the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I watched him walk away, rain dripping off hair as dark as Izio’s. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His skin was cool and damp from the rain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wind had let up, but the cold rain still fell relentlessly from some endless reservoir in the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

"I like my umbrella. It’s the only one I’ve ever found that’s big enough to protect all of us from the rain," she said as Frankie jumped over the puddles lining the sidewalk. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The kind colored folks tell on themselves when the rain doesn’t come, or comes for weeks, and they’re looking for a little comfort somehow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Square by square, she searches the night skies for adversaries then scrutinizes the ocean, which is roiling with nine straight days of unseasonable April rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s raining again, harder than back at the cemetery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The referee, a tall woman with short blond hair, came in behind us just as the rain hit. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the trees, on pounded dirt and among mud puddles from fresh rains, people set up stands for selling umbrellas and plastic wrist watches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We collected half a jug before the rain stopped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like how you love the rain because even though it can make a mess of things, it still makes rainbows rise and flowers grow. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A few great, warm drops of rain were falling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the forty-ninth day after Lynn’s death I opened all the windows in the alcove, even though it was raining. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a muggy, overcast night, with the feeling of thunderstorms in the air, but as long as it wasn’t raining, Alex enjoyed the walk. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Plumber told me this dang tree is plugging up some of the pipes. Least bit of rain and the yard turns into a giant mud puddle.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dirt of the path was spongy and pungent with yesterday’s rain. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, as the rain began, they drew her to them and kissed her. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the camera panned an empty pier, still wet from the afternoon rain, the Spanish newscaster reported that there was evidence of a struggle. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The first weeks of August brought rejuvenating rain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rain went away, and every other person was in a Halloween costume. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Very soon they came upon traces of blood which the rain had not yet washed away, and these they followed toward the ash tree in the hedge to the west of the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“This brings us to the valley I told you about,” said Maxim,“and you shall smell the azaleas. Never mind the rain, it will bring out the scent.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Any time it rained in Bali, the clouds cracked open and fat drops of laughing gas fell down on everyone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were good rains that year, and in Tortoise’s fields the crops grew tall and strong. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The rain had finally stopped, but the wind carried on, whipping the prairie grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. I remember that day, too. It had rained in the morning, but the sun came out after lunch.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure the person on the phone was only bringing rain. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A drizzly gray rain began almost as soon as the group of several hundred left the camp, headed west. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain stopped, and the puddles on the track went still. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much for talking with Pa. I’d made him so mad he’d rather slop around in the mud and the rain than talk to me. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He says we must dig faster,” said Mother, raising her voice as the rain poured down in sheets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With the rain fogging up the air between the two cars, I couldn’t tell if there were one or two men inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The monsters growing out of their bodies were washed away by the rain. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It slammed into the side of Sigurd’s head, exploding and raining water in a wide arc. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But in California it does not ordinarily rain at all between the end of May and the first of November. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, far off in the rain over the water, he saw the shadow coming. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The glowering sky hinted of rain, and it had grown colder. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the end of March, he figured, so the rains would stay at least one more month. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, the ones that weren’t carried off in the wind or dragged to the ground by the rain could be removed by people—or by enterprising squirrels. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They probably wanted to go looking for ants with her again, even though it was raining. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I guess now it’s in a gutter, getting rained on or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When my parents and I got home, Dad pulled his rain jacket hood onto his head and rushed inside with the box of leftover cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The smell of promised rain, pine, and muscadine made him giddy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eruption of Mount Elgon about seven million years ago had buried the rain forest in ash, and the logs had been transformed into opal and chert. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered rocks from her hoard and prepared to rain them down. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain rattles down, and flows off at the sides in streams. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clink of stones came to us sodden with the rain, indistinct, unmistakable. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strafing had started—pellets raining down from above—as Odenigbo held the zinc sheet open while they all crawled down into the bunker. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The skies opened up and rain—glorious rain—quenched the dust-dry prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It rained all the way through New Hampshire, a steady, wearying drizzle. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two weeks of work I put in for him was just long enough for rain to wash away the blood, for the field grass to spring back up again where the deer was shot. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the rain abated and commenced a silent drizzle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They knew we’d get thirsty, even though the rain hammered our shirts to our backs and chilled us right through the skin, and being thirsty ever again seemed out of the question. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama used to tell Jaja and me that God was undecided about what to send, rain or sun. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon they were laughing, and snapping their fingers at rain, and at Black Riders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another week passed after Jim’s visit and still not a drop of rain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t, but in the world of the wheel-pod trees, there had just been a shower of rain; and so it was that he discovered the window and found where Mary had gone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he made his great chamber for the storing of food it was under a rock so that it could never cave in no matter how hard it rained. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these chattels were on their way to ruin by the late rains, their veneer being invaded by the water and swelling so that the wood wrinkled and buckled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

That request had peeved Dad, who claimed that we Oregonians suffer eight months of rain a year and should be exempt from ever worrying about water conservation. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot rum and the heavy sound of the rain made him drowsy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sky was gray and it looked as if it might rain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boo acted quickly, and bird droppings rained across the demon’s eyes and forehead. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It glowed with all of its special objects—ballpoint pens, cheese-filled crackers, candy bars, rain bonnets—each one of them giving off its own special light. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I want them out of the house. Just take them, you hear me? There’ll be more come Christmas. Six months,” she said, and the tears rained down her face. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It had rained a little during the night, and would rain again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rain pounded the metal roof of the shed so that the plink of milk in the pail set up a counter-rhythm. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now that he thought about it, he didn’t like rain all that much. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, he made sure it was completely covered with the fabric so it would be protected from the rain, and then he leaned the mechanical man into the crook of his elbow. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe the rain would bring out more worms. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s all of us, though, Granny, isn’t it?” said Louisiana over the noise of the rain. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When it was all in, the three cars stood in line down the driveway under the trees in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

By the time we got into Manhattan it was sunset and starting to rain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In moments she was quietly listening to the rain slap the leaves around her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Do you know he was out all night in the rain?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had condensed on the windows, covering the cracked windshield like a filmy overlay of lace. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a warm rain would soak the fields and the flowers would give off their deep red color—rivers of red, like the yolk of sunset burst over everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We built a shelter out of tree limbs, palm branches, and whatever other materials we could find, but the huts leaked when it rained and always needed repairs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day is overcast, with pinpoints of rain; spitting, they call it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain seemed to bring into focus just how much work remained. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was pouring rain outside, but before I reached the house I saw that the hands were still in the fields, still hoeing corn. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The upper wind settled in the West and deeper and wetter clouds rolled up to spill their laden rain on the bare heads of the Downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There had been a little rain and a fuzz of miserly grass had started up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun shone, rain fell, winds blew, currents flowed, the sea built up hills, the sea dug up valleys—the Tsimtsum did not care. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It poured every day, the rain coming down in long, dreary sheets that made Luke feel worse as he watched from the attic vents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Hoo, a quicker student than the dressmaker, had learned more words: partner, money, house, tree, road, pots, pans, okay, football, good, rain, spareribs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes perhaps a tramp will wander there, seeking shelter from a sudden shower of rain and, if he is stout-hearted, he may walk there with impunity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for my change, I looked out the train car window through the rain to the gas station. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There's probably this sauce just raining down from the sky. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The small, secure weight of tools along his belt, the smell of intermittent rain, and the crystalline brilliance of the clouds at dusk: these are the only times when Volkheimer feels marginally whole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Over the nearby hills, a warm wind was slowly driving rain clouds toward the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She bunches her mouth up, wipes the rain from her eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Down like lashing whips fell a torrent of black rain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It began to rain as Scipio steered his father's boat onto the Grand Canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Folks around me, they prayed for rain and good crops and good health. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’d brought lightweight Polartec jackets with their supplies, so they bundled up against the cold rain and walked for a few blocks through the mostly deserted streets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net—all became worn, stretched, slack, cracked, dried, rotted, torn, discoloured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind began to blow steadily out of the West and pour the water of the distant seas on the dark heads of the hills in fine drenching rain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I guess they never had to worry about rain down here. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Cape has a Mediterranean climate of winter rains, in which the Bantu summer-rain crops do not grow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They have to play in all kinds of weather, Mom. Sometimes you get caught in a blizzard. Sometimes you get caught in the rain. It’s part of football. It’s part of soccer, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and wavy plumes of steam drifted up off the asphalt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On dreary summer evenings, Roz and Brightbill would curl up together, just the two of them, and listen to the rain pattering on the roof of the Nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The aiakh moved so fast that Quaro's blood flew from it in a fine spray, like rain in a hot wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Colour and scent and sound, rain and the lapping of water, even the mists of autumn and the smell of the flood tide, these are memories of Manderley that will not be denied. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of rain I saw in 12 has damaged the plants here as well, leaving some with brittle leaves, building a crunchy carpet under our feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We might be in South America now,” Camilla said one night while we were drinking bourbon from teacups in my room and listening to rain dripping from the eaves. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

During the night, however, a gale rose, and by morning a drenching rain beat into the cleft. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to sleep out in all this rain?” asked Harriet. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A zinc roof would be so nice when it rained. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall would be flowing off to the south, the melting ice mingling with warm rain to wash down in sheets and rivers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I might add, madam, that it was not raining. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her back I went around in front of her the rain creeping into the mud flatting her bodice through her dress it smelled horrible. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that made a sound was the rain. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The crusty old man helped little Ladd dismount, telling him, “You go on inside out of the rain, Sonny, while I tend to these horses.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

How loud was the rain when it came? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You’d better take the little umbrella, dear. It looks like rain,” said her mother, observing that she had on her new bonnet, but not alluding to the fact. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those days that it’s raining on one side of the street and not on the other. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sky was a featureless grey sheet of cloud that looked as if it wanted to rain but couldn’t quite work up the energy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the rains fell, he put Nellie in a box stall and fed her warm food every morning and curried her and brushed her. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe turned and peered through a curtain of rain at the house his father was building. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The net, under tension, rained seawater onto the deck along with sticks and kelp. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His face flushed with discomfort, and he was rooted to the spot in disbelief as the rain clouds gathered above him again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The rain continues to increase, falling heavily as she continues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even before his birth he was a strong feeling—a feeling about the nasty greenish-gray powder Pilate had given her to be stirred into rain water and put into food. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat huddled together wrapped each in a blanket over their coats and after a while the rain stopped and there was just the dripping in the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hesitates for a long moment, then adds, “The rain’s stopped. Why don’t you go out for a walk while you can?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It continued to rain heavily, but they eventually found a huge tatajuba, a type of rubber tree, that was five feet in diameter around the base. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

All this she saw in their eyes, and the sight filled her own with water warmer and much older than the rain. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The camp has magic borders. Nothing, not even weather, is allowed in without permission. It could be a land without rain.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lee listened, and sure enough, there was that engine sound, easier to make out now that the rain had eased a little. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remains unmoved, like a rock splashed by mere drops of rain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The rain had turned half the compound yard to ankle-deep puddles and the rest to sucking mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

You took the bead from him, and your face brightened slowly, like the sun peeking out from behind rain clouds. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were damp from the light rain we’d had that morning. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, one day, as Jade Dragon ended the rain and moved the clouds away from the land, she overheard some villagers' conversation. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Came bopping down the street like it wasn't raining. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He liked to do the job as often as possible, rain or shine, day or night, summer or winter, and especially on Sundays. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the saliva that formed in my mouth whenever I smelt clay dust potted with fresh rain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were ignoring him completely, silently watching the rain as it continued to taper off. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Songololo would move so she was out of the rain, at which point Anastasia would shift position and expose her daughter all over again. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For months there had been no rain and the sky was empty of clouds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

No stranger than bringing along an umbrella for a walk on a day that feels like rain, even if the sun is shining brightly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A porter came out from under the shelter of the station, his shoulders up against the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The San runs fast beneath my feet, white froth on top of its waves, and the air smells like hot truck exhaust and steaming rain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the front door, in the rain, a faint scratching. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled dry and vacant after weeks of rain. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was still raining the next morning when the men woke up and discovered that two canoes were missing. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A screen effect that rains confetti down over our thread of messages. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She fell asleep propped up against her pillows, thinking that perhaps, over the sound of the rain and the television, she hadn’t heard Estha’s door open. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip on my rain boots and briefly wonder whether I should put real clothes on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Once when I was little, she told me she knew it would rain because lost ghosts were circling near our windows, calling “Woo-woo” to be let in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the drought before the cleansing rain, as my mother would say—the storm cloud before the sun. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So, came his first free day when the skies, though still cloudy, did not look like rain, Father announced we were flying it even though we had to wear boots and heavy coats. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books tumbled down, and loose papers rained on the floor at my feet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We didn’t join a church in Washington, because we didn’t want to subject another congregation to the kind of bad-faith attacks that had rained down on Trinity, our church in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Going to be a storm," said Ralph, "and you'll have rain like when we dropped here. Who's clever now? Where are your shelters? What are you going to do about that?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We passed village fields where people were at work in the rain and mud. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re on, they’re on. What does he want from me? It’s all this rain on the windshield that makes it look dark from back there.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And strangely familiar, though in the lashing rain it was hard to focus on just why. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At night he lay on the floor of his tiny room, listening to the rains drenching the jungle. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The clouds darkened and the rain swirled faster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he decided to leave the park when the rain stopped, so he could get back home. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“About dragons bringing rain to men? And about their being able to change their size and shape?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s nothing here but rain and oul’ biddies saying the rosary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The “rain room” was the chamber off the kitchens they’d designated for Feral’s cloud summoning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I told Winnie we did not have time, and instead I stood out in the rain signing autographs for some children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained the day they brought us to Thurmond, and it went on to rain straight through the week, and the week after that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I got to get on out of the rain. Goodbye.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yawning and stretching his arms, he said, “It sure is hot today. It doesn’t look like it’s ever going to rain.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful that he did not say anything about Amaka’s statement, that he talked about the sweet-smelling rains instead and sang along with the robust Igbo choruses coming from his cassette player. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was so relieved that I scarcely minded the soaking rain. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, the sky was overcast with slate-gray clouds, the air thick with rains foreboding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As she walked through the rain, Lupita felt her hopes rising. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was already raining sideways and the palm trees were wagging their leaves at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He held Gaily down with his left hand, pushing down on the boy’s neck, as his right fist rained punches upon Gaily s face, one after another. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was raining, washing all traces of the snow away in clear, icy ribbons down the side of the walkway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a thunderstorm. What do you girls do if it rains when you’re gardening?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now he’s left Kilanga altogether, vanished into the forest, it seems, or melted under the rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke again he thought the rain had stopped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It will. Still, there are worse things than playing in the rain.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The darkness crept down and the rain drummed on the steel roof of the cab and the windshield wipers sobbed their arcs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been strong winds and heavy rain all day, and as Wood spoke, they heard a distant rumble of thunder. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember, there’s a storm coming. If it rains, keep your pans covered and dry. Wait till we’ve got fifty yards between us, boys, fifty yards or less, fifty yards or less!” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly slept the rest of the night, listening to the horrid rain and knowing that no matter how high the creek came, Leslie would still want to cross it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She moved the antlers, The Gold-Bug, and the raven box from the windowsill to the floor before sliding the window up and reaching for the pulley rope, now slick with rain. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was clear daylight now and a fine rain was falling. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mama says not a thing in the whole village that won’t melt in a good hard rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lake Windsor Middle School is a very uncomfortable place to be when it’s raining. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was wrong about the weather for that day, for a little after noon the clouds pushed over the hills and the rain began to pour down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before when everyone had left Egypt in such a hurry they had been too busy getting away from the rain—and the darkness and question mysteriously answered—to remember about Security. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue mountains lifted into the rain and the rain fell down into the long canals and old LaFarge and his wife came out of their house to watch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya declared the rain lucky, an answer to the prayer they hadn’t even said yet, but to Anya it felt like a punctuation mark to her utter failure. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Minya’s tears raged, practically leaping from her eyes in full, fat drops, like rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Just after seven the rain began to fall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And really, despite the rain and the fact that it's homecoming, I think I understand why Blue loves this. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s raining so hard that her wipers are going a million miles an hour. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two days later, halfway there, he arrived in heavy rain at the beaver ponds that blocked access to the west bank of the Teklanika River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood head down with his rump to the rain and wind. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like rain,” I say, hoping that will prompt her to act. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Much of the time it’s raw and overcast, the low metallic sky of late autumn; or else it rains and we have to stay inside the motel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky groaned and cracked, and suddenly the shrill, cold needles of rain pierced our hands and the backs of our necks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they were sitting in the castle on Wednesday, it began suddenly to rain so hard that water came through the top of the shack in icy streams. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A few of them were kind of quick and tinkling, and another was like that smell in the springtime after a rain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Could it really withstand high winds, torrential rain? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I loved being out in the forest in the rain. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The kids without umbrellas panic because they’re trapped in the cold, pounding rain, unable to move behind the kids with umbrellas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open window she could smell the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Made me mad to have her anger raining in on the warmed-up feeling I had with Pa talking to me just like he used to when he had a farming plan in the works. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and shook her head, fountaining spumes of rain from the ends of her hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Behind the house, seeming almost overhead, the great hills were muted and dull in the rain. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, fourteen and a quarter inches of rain had fallen at the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If the rain is too heavy for her to go home she stays in the small room upstairs with Alphie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I could see myself as I ran in the rain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a sewing- machine on the cart ahead of us in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It is queer to see the painters at work on ladders & scaffolds in this heavy rain,” Olmsted wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was hard not to feel that something was deeply wrong at the sight of so much food left out in the rain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It's late winter here near Nahariya, but the rains have been sparse. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

How could he explain sitting there in the rain? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He treks for six hours across the heath in the snow and the rain to get to the train. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then it starts to rain blood, and Kingston is there, lapping it all up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep hearing the swoosh of the wind through the trees, the pounding of the rain all around me, and my own voice: “Let him go!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But, as the rain came down and the sky turned black, they still could find no trace of Prosper. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was windy and cold, and the rain had come back hard. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What seemed important to us about the rain was that the next morning after it fell, Papa came riding home through the mud. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was nothing but a heavy mist by the time we set sail, armed with a shovel and canvas bags to carry back whatever we might find, even if it was only woadwaxen. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And if someone does get hurt, well, they’re back right as rain the next day and don’t remember nothing about it.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Almost all the rain falls during the May-to-December rainy season and rapidly sinks hundreds of feet into the porous limestone, from where it cannot easily be extracted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two: Best friend or not, Declaration would not come over in the rain—she didn’t like to get wet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The glitter fell in a sparkly rain all around her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the oats were in the shock, and now the rain could come and it would not do any harm. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staying dry in the pouring rain is one of those cat tricks I’ll never figure out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and everyone except Rorra was already up. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“These are my family’s,” he said to her, wiping the rain from his brow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was not a lot to do when it rained. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the rain coming down on me now there’s more of it than seems possible. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rain would probably keep him in front of the television all afternoon. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outside I covered the hole with a mat woven of brush to shed the rain, and on the inside with a flat rock which I was strong enough to move. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks me to the curb, where it's starting to rain. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside through the window we saw him crossing the street in the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The rain sounds like someone throwing rocks at the house. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cold, rain, sleet, hail, and snow they simply ignored. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When it didn’t rain and wasn’t too cold, my father and I always enjoyed our Shabbat walks to and from the synagogue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rain has ended, not even the soft spritz remains, just sky that is blue and a breeze that is soft. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The weekend is over, and Monday has come with wind and rain. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Take care,” I said, flipping up my jacket collar in anticipation of the rain. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He relinquished the endeavour, folded his arms, and stood quiet and mute in the rain, now falling fast on his uncovered head. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cootie shuffled into his yard, looked straight into the falling rain, and yelled, “Sweet Jesus, let that poor woman rest, you hear me? She had enough!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sierra inhaled; the smell of fresh soil and recent rain surrounded her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Worse, almost no rain fell between mid-May and mid-July, withering their crops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The mushrooms were like the blackberries—both wanted a drop of rain before they’d be any good. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story behind the book was that she saw a movie that talked about one poem that compares this woman’s hands to flowers and rain. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless I said to him anxiously: “Stay behind and rest—it is not good for you to go out in this rain. Tomorrow will be enough.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natural mists joined those cast by the dementors; wind and rain added to their troubles. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We all agreed with Kanei and went wandering into our own thoughts, which were interrupted by a sudden burst of rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stepped out into the rain, back, out again, and then arranged herself on the threshold, just at the edge of dry ground. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then as if water on earth drew water from heaven it rained as though the earth were in drought. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was like driving a car in the rain when the windshield wipers are broken; you can’t see a thing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, as the old woman held the new baby tenderly, she rained tears of sorrow and joy upon it, and the baby's first bath was the unusual mixture of love and loss. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the third day of rain we decided to go down into town. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When it stopped hailing and raining, the hot day had suddenly turned cool. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And there were the long, slow, drowsy days and nights of drizzling rain . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was raining. The road was slick. It was dark.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Clearing a rain forest to plant annuals is like stripping an animal first of its fur, then its skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His golden fur was soon darkened by the rain and plastered close to his body, making him smaller and less easy to see, but all the same he was horribly conspicuous. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And it was about seven thirty when the rains began. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the threat of rain in the air. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And if it was cold on the ground, it was seriously cold in the air, with icy rain stinging my skin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, but there was rain in my dreams. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I did not know whether it was an actual flood, but I had never seen rain as heavy as what fell on us in Oklahoma that day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes what appears to be a leaf or stick in the rain forest is really an insect, fooling a would-be predator by blending in with its surroundings. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Like the way you can smell a summer rain, you can smell the excitement in our little neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As scientists, we deplore the use to which a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless Japan surrenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The doors were new and the air smelled clean and moist as if it had just rained inside the building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later, coins rain down on the hippodrome track. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As heavy rain drops plunked on either side of us, Mami told us to be careful, because we were walking on a bridge. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

No rain came through the roof; it had the best bed I had ever slept on; and there was a shower in a building near the dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer huddled through it, watching the roar and rain and holding close as their lips turned purple and their skins pimpled with cold. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds darkened and gathered together as we approached Mount Elgon, and splats of rain began to hit the windshield. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining and there was no moonlight. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She says, “Sometimes the rain blows in under the door—and it does look like it’ll rain—and that can ruin the whole bag. So keep it high and dry.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was coming home in the rain on the expressway one night, the defroster conked out and the windshield fogged up. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Three days of rain and 4,287 cold beads of water beating against my windowpanes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Joe cast them sidelong glances but kept walking, leaning against the rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then, very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, for just a few moments, and opened his mouth... Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his breathing quieted and he stopped sobbing, I lifted his face and looked into his eyes, as brown as a shady pond after rain. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped by then and the thick masses of gray clouds were beginning to break apart. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked a little heavy from the rain, but it was dry in the sun and firm and smooth. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It never rained in the Protectorate’s marvelous fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The rain has made the ground all muddy and he slips as he tries to get back on his feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like Mr. Petrelli had said: Even if atomic bombs had started raining down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The rain was the war and you had to fight it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while we were very still and we could hear the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Underneath, the soil was very wet and slippery, after the rain. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I suppose so,” she said, sniffing the flower, which smelled of rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We spent the longest afternoon I can ever remember listlessly reading and staring out at the pattering rain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the night, going slowly along the crowded roads we passed troops marching under the rain, guns, horses pulling wagons, mules, motor trucks, all moving away from the front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nok must have known he was looking at her, but she kept her head tucked under her arm, like a pigeon using its wing to shelter from the rain. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

‘Before the rain started. Now she wishes for the gray. She wears always the gray, boy, when it rains. Always.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How could we plant when we had no idea whether or not it was going to rain? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His mouth full of the taste of muscadine, listening to the pine needles rustling loudly in their anticipation of rain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later a light rain fell out of it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain picked up, filling my ear, my nose, my mouth as I tried to bite back another scream. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It began to rain again in earnest as we crossed to Penikese. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shawn Crow stood in the rain, wishing he could be out there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These guavas are large and juicy, almost seedless, their roundness enticing you to have one more, just one more, because next year the rains may not come. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rain was still falling, a thin drizzle that traveled horizontally in the wind, soaking through his supposedly waterproof clothing, mixing with his sweat and his dirt, chilling him to the bone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We plunged into the woods as the rain poured down, the bus in flames behind us, and nothing but darkness ahead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Did you climb trees and make pictures in the dirt with sticks and skip rocks in the rain puddles? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the house into the rain. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice Harry nearly hit another player, without knowing whether it was a teammate or opponent; everyone was now so wet, and the rain so thick, he could hardly tell them apart.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But unlike the vines and grass, they didn’t wait until the first rains to start growing again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped by the time I got back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It gets very humid in Puerto Rico, and even though it’s raining, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a sunburn.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We gathered cuts of springy moss to use as pillows, Emma drying the rain from them with her hands before we tucked them under our heads. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nailer stared back into the slash of rain. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pounds against my shoulders and head, dragging me toward the ground. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I walked over the ridge and straight into a rain shower. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The trees seemed to have moved at their tops, leaning toward each other to create a roof across the path; they would protect him from rain, he realized, and perhaps that was a good thing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When it rained, they let off a disgusting musty smell so animals wouldn’t eat them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind came up from the west, smelling cool like wet clay, Then he could see the rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once safe in the trailer, we slammed the door against the wind and rain and whatever else might be out there. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rain dashed against her and flattened her hair lankly over her cheeks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Not really sleepy. The rain does that to me. Keeps me awake.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t just see clouds, but light clouds, scout clouds that came before the heavier clouds that could mean rain and maybe wind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't see the dancing dolls being left out in the rain or given away to the maid!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The crickets, where do they go when it rains?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was still raining and she was still a homeless failure. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too heavy and too gray to not turn into rain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like a packed crowd of people of assorted sizes, standing umbrella-protected in the rain. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a spot near the top of the stairs where they could escape from the wind and rain. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pelted from the roofs as if the sky had promised the sea to drown the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t any rain and I was only a little chilly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Though the torrential rains slackened off and the darkness lightened, a steady drizzle continued. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rain really started coming down as the bus skidded out of the gravel parking lot. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could not see the lake, only the dark and the rain but the wind was quieter. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Halfhand's longsword seemed to be everywhere at once, raining down from one side and then the other, driving him where he would, keeping him off balance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And he doesn’t look wet at all, like he avoided the last hour’s rain entirely. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The day had started with rain and then there had been clouds, but as they reached Griffin’s Wharf the moon, full and white, broke free of the clouds. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon grew fat and thin, there were solstices, first frosts, and spring rains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The rain and mud had made every mile into ten. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no evidence that it had ever rained or that it would ever rain again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s starting to rain,” I say, as if she doesn’t know this. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was not quite the deluge of the previous year, but it rained more days than not for the rest of October and into November. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The smell of rain mingled with the sweet scent of honeysuckle, and crickets chirped in the huckleberry bushes along the edge of the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her hand came away bloody, despite the drenching sea and rain. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

From now until race day, Bolles told his boys, they would row six days a week, rain or shine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I am bold to say it in spite of the rain, because so short a time remains to me.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many carry small Bibles, wrapped in plastic bags to keep them dry when they ford rivers or when it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In his dreams he saw the hills in the distance and watched the clouds that brought rain. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At one in the morning, Groves rolled out of his cot, pulled on a shirt, and walked through rain and wind to the mess hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first of June; yet the morning was overcast and chilly: rain beat fast on my casement. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then came a fierce storm, lightning, rain, the heaving sea tossing the ship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The thick rain splattering the windows made it very difficult to see out of them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It stopped raining, and our legs were splattered with mud to our thighs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hugged Mother and then he hugged me, and turned and slipped through the rain and the night out of the barnyard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rain wiping it off our faces and listening to its sound on the tile roof and the gushing of torrents onto the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We were supposed to go to a farm in the country today. But since it’s raining so hard, were taking you to a tumbling gym instead.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The rain was still drumming heavily against the high, dark glass. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This meant that as long as it continued to rain, no family would go hungry. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single drop of water on that spot, unless it was raining! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started going that summer when it never rained and the Malvern Hills turned brown and fires broke out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Papa’s dark figure, blurred by sheets of rain, came into focus as he got closer. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The streets were deserted under the persistent rain and the houses locked up with no trace of life inside. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a while the rain slowed to a drizzle and then stopped. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should be fine, unless it rains. This truck doesn’t do well in the rain. But I didn’t see rain in the forecast.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He has one great fear—that of getting his head wet, so that summer or winter he ordinarily wears a rain hat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, the rain that started the day off came back to end it, dripping softly at first but picking up speed. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t see: the rain was driving into her eyes, and there was still gas in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was no sound here but the tumbling of the little stream, and the quiet rain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had been raining hard all morning, but after lunch, it had stopped and the sun had come out a bit. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy rain had left the sky a pale, quiet blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He leans close and whispers, “A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Drenched to the skin by torrential rain, they unloaded the shells from a baggage car, lifted them over their heads, and hustled down to the river to stow the boats and inspect their new quarters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The air outside was still cool; it smelled like night dampness, faintly of rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was still beating the treetops back and forth, but the worst of the rain had passed by the time he decided he could do no more. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because Eurasia is the world’s largest landmass, and it’s also very diverse ecologically, with habitats ranging from extensive tropical rain forests, through temperate forests, deserts, and marshes, to equally extensive tundras. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The weather was growing fouler every day as the Antarctic winter approached, with hard frosts and cold rain. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She talked about how it was supposed to rain and asked me if I wanted to go to book club with her. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the day of Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration, March 4, 1917, one thousand protesting women encircled the White House in the biting wind, sleet, and pouring rain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The branches were slick with rain, but they were sturdy and had knobby, flowered handholds. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After two minutes, she roared at the giggling girls, “You want to talk, go talk in the rain. This is the library. We read in here.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I lay and listened to the rain on the canvas and the clicking of the car over the rails. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Debussy’s 'Gardens in the rain’, though, was composed in 1903, a good thirty years after the Impressionist painters had first begun exhibiting their works to a disconcerted Parisian public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I think of the umbrella again—“carry it, and maybe it won’t rain.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I turned and looked back, and saw that clouds were darkening the sky, announcing the arrival of the afternoon rains. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was full of drifting smoke from the cookfires drowning in the rain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The rain had started early the previous afternoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t say stuff like that to a kid asking about her mother when it’s snowing outside or pouring down raining. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cate cracked our windows, and the air rushing by brought in the scent of rain and carried me quickly into sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The dust was clearing, and from somewhere there was light: a strange faint golden glimmer, like a luminous misty rain falling all around them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as the rain thundered down outside, it was no small thing that the roof didn’t leak. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This floating and swishing I like. these days: cranky and bad-tempered, raining soot on everyone else’s head. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I stood back under the eave of the hotel, out of the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once the rains stopped in April the chanterelles were done for the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And you know the day’s going to get hot again when the rain’s over, because that’s what the neighborhood association has decided? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain starts to fall and I think of my cousins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, Roberto and I worked picking carrots and thinning lettuce after school and on weekends when it did not rain. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

From the dining-room window where she stood, with the wind in her hair, Rahel could see the rain drum down on the rusted tin roof of what used to be their grandmother’s pickle factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“TV people are lazy!” she shouted to us over the rain from beneath her umbrella. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were few storms that winter and rain was light and ended early. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That happens sometimes after a morning rain,” said Rhonda as the children took seats at the table. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it does come to rain, you put him in, will you, Billy? I’m scared he might get cold so I couldn’t ride him when the time comes.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of my clothes and listened to the rain until I fell asleep. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was still raining when I went to sleep. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Something was shaking the deck A gaur—an Indian wild ox—exploded out of the rain and thundered by me, terrified, out of control, berserk. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain made a steady thumping sound on the cab of the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he reads the papers that come, to see whether it is raining in his little corner of Oldenburg. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was crystalline as it sometimes is when rain is coming. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He always had plenty to do, rain or shine, and didn’t mind a chance to make paints and mend his gear. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Out the now glassless window, the sound of rain falling on the burning houses is the sound of pebbles being stirred by waves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They drove through the rain to Salisbury and set up the tent and booths in the rain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the rain let up, he pulled on some clothes and went into the slanted red barn to see the swallows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Slanting rain hit the bars of the window-grill and shattered into a fine spray over her face and her smooth bare arm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a lot of rain that week, and I remember the clouds were still hanging low and thick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It illuminates the rain falling over it in such a way that the droplets of water sparkle like snow. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Miss Robins asks, tying a rain scarf on her head. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The rain beat down on her bare back. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sudden rain rapped the high warehouse roof. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had arrived soon after a heavy rain. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rained that morning and he hoped it wouldn’t be too muddy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The punt cord had been drenched through with rain, pliant, slippery and fibrous. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they set about their work early, for it was canning time, and who knew but what the wind would come back this time with a cooling rain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy,” she said, shouting to be heard over the rain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rain turned up a notch or two. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were wondering, as I was, if this would be the day rain would come. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some nights he dreamed of fists raining down on him like giant hail. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And before the thunder followed, in a pause while wind and rain held back for one brief moment, she thought she heard, fading in the distance, the tinkling little melody of the music box. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would the spring be like, or Christmas, or rain? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Same trees, same sky, same awful weather—I was either drenched in rain or sticky with humidity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

God, the drops of rain were so cold. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And the wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, the watermen would lower their sails and use them as tents to protect themselves from the rain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Celia begins to laugh, a buoyant giggle that harmonizes with the din of the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He'd picked up bamboo lengths on the beach and had fitted them together into a short pipe to funnel the rain water into our ten-gallon keg. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had even uncovered barrels to catch the rain water, which they loved to drink and cook in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was raining, and we got pretty wet, walking home with Otis Bottom too, since his house is only a couple of blocks away from James Russell’s. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy earthiness about him, the smell of grass after it has just rained. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What saved Amil was really the rain, but it was Papa, too. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She decided when and where the clouds would rain upon the land and when they would stop. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty took off his shoes and socks, as grit rained down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smelly water ran down along the sides of the place like rain. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gregory is not the kind of person who would get that wrong—he’s got his whole sleet and snow and rain commitment, and he takes that stuff seriously. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, losing myself in the falling petals, the light rain, the strength of his arms, his breath on my lips. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

On the island, rain was usually something that happened for brief minutes in the night, while everyone slept. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tayo unbolted the door and opened it; he watched the rainwater pour out the rain gutter over the side of the long porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita had already lain down on the bench, which was damp from the day’s rain. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A light rain was falling as he started back toward his hotel. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She opened the side door to the auditorium, and we marched in behind her to what sounded like hard rain on a tin roof. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew from her stub and walked under an overhang near the aerie just as rain poured out of the clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

You rolled with a posse to the party as sure as you wore boots in the snow, or raised an umbrella in the rain. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Edd looked at the axe doubtfully, the rain running down his long face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes rained rivers, and long ribbons of snot dangled from his wheezing nostrils. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There had hardly been a drop of rain, and the river was calm. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Their only hope was that it would never stop raining, and they had no hope because they all knew it would. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t suppose this rain will keep folks away?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jade Dragon was so offended that she decided that she would never let it rain again. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rain still fell upon the roof, and into the grate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And now you think it was big bad demons raining from the sky?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had to shout over the sound of the rain pinging against the silver, rippled body of the trailer the truck had been hauling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All day we sat there in the rain breaking stones, and for the whole of that week, and Nathan grew neither better nor worse. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The third word in the next line,” explained Baba, “was worn off the slab, its meaning washed away by centuries of rain, almost lost to posterity forever.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that Sunday night, as rain thumped their windowsills, editors of Chicago’s morning dailies laid out bold and elaborate headlines for Monday’s historic editions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mercifully, when Brundage stopped speaking the athletes were ushered back outside, where a light rain was falling and the crowds had begun to disperse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was cloudy and seemed ready to rain, so we decided to take a trolley car back rather than walk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rain or no rain, this is a happy day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Feathers and rain are all very nice, but we like to know that God is truly with us.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time she was out in a field with the boy, holding his hand, and it was raining, not hard, but steadily, although almost everywhere around them on the horizon sunshine gleamed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both listened to the rain and the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they had finished breakfast the clouds had joined into an unbroken roof, and a straight grey rain came softly and steadily down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

During one long, exasperating endgame, it began to rain, and neither he nor his opponent would let the storm stay their appointed task of finishing the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the monsters ran around in confusion, Frank pulled his bow and rained arrows on them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

What she looked like most was a blackbird that was caught in the rain. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It rains so hard that my brothers are not able to go up the mountain to dig for potatoes and bamboo. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nin always knew when the rains were coming, said it was the chill in her bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Atacama Desert, just south of Peru on the Chilean shore, is the driest place on earth—in some places rain has literally never been recorded. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and mis- fortune is just bad luck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wyl cursed as they pulled him off his dying horse, swords slashing in the rain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Ben’s park still won’t have the smell of the desert flowers after the rain. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She walked on puddles like they were Persian carpets, and when a clap of thunder boomed around us, she looked up at the drowned sky, opened her mouth, and let the rain fall in. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would make one more big trip before the cold rains, and then the harsh snow, slashed down. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Director will know who we are, and hell will rain down. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sky, thinking about rain, about the slick clay roads, himself stalled somewhere miles from town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up to see a woman with a lip ring raining down the stink-eye. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We have jugs filled almost to the top and it didn’t rain today. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He calls me Wild Child because I’m always running around barefoot feeling the earth under my feet and predicting rain. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be faced with the choice of either walking two miles in the rain to school or accepting a ride in the Chief’s cruiser. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He started to sleep out there, and had screened in the windows and made shutters for when it rained. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It went from black to a charcoal grey, the rain like pebbles thrown against glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The rain comes so hard, the earth can’t soak it up. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

You remember that feeling of cold, freezing rain down your back I was telling you about? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was glad that the rain was too heavy to see Charlie clearly on the porch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So I flew over to the mall near her house through the rain, which was coming down outside in this really hard way. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A damp breeze, carrying the smell of rain and fall’s decay, made him shudder. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wind was beating more wildly than ever, and a drop or two of rain splashed onto Will’s face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be continuously outside, exposed to sun, wind, rain and sea, was exhausting, and not only to the body but also to the mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s still raining,” she adds, like any of that matters. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The man and the woman and the books and the rain recede until there is only the radio and its tangle of wires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first scatters of rain were beginning to fall, pattering into the oak leaves and pricking the bare pink skin inside their ears. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ! Is that rain? All the windows down! My new Chevy. Christ!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of man and horse diminished, swallowed up by the wet green wild, and soon enough he could hear only the steady wash of rain against leaf and tree and rock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were squalls of rain on the wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked into the thickest forest and tried to escape the downpour by standing under big trees, but it rained to the point where the leaves couldn’t hold off the water anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The birds were quiet, too, the drops increasing in frequency, so it must be raining above. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Freezing rain fell all last night, so now icicles are hanging off of tree branches like crystals and all the houses on the block look like they are made of glass. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell the spicy pine, the dampness of bark after rain, and the exotic fragrance that clung to Sidhean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even in this rain. What a noble bird.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the front doors slammed, and my older brother, Tidings, who had been painting the fence by the front parking lot, yelled, “Attention, all personnel! Where are the big umbrellas! I need rain cover!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a chilly morning after the night’s rain, and the sun hung in the sky like a pale coin lost by someone high up in the clouds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t the rain fine? They never had rain like this in Italy. It’s cheerful rain.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby, dressed in a light zip-up jacket that wasn't warm enough, pressed on despite the discomfort, his pieces occasionally sliding off the cement tables slick with rain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, thunder sounds, heralding more rain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ishmael squatted beneath branches in the rain and watched the tree’s entry for half a minute. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just before noon, the rain poured down in torrents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wiped the rain from his eyes and mouth with a cold wet hand, and then he said, "You're a fool, boy. But I appreciate it." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though she were a dark rain cloud about to drench the earth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We cover our heads with our hands as we run through the rain. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Rivera looked skeptical, she took Maribel by the wrist, leading her up to their apartment while I stood there in the spitting rain and watched them go. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The wind blew, and the wet coolness of the rain washed over us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It helps that it hasn’t stopped raining for weeks—freezing, driving, bitter rain accompanied by gales howling through the trees, so loud they drown out the sound of the train. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still raining and soon the windows were wet and you could not see out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the women too, but mostly he noticed the men, how they hunched their shoulders, how they stood their short collars against the fine lines of rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all ran back to our bus to escape from the pelting of the rain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had not begun to rain, after all: The tent had been doused in kerosene. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were broken toys, bits of rusted tin, as if a careless child had left them out in the rain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Already, she hardly believed anymore in the figure standing in the rain—until she knelt down again at the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cliff and Fred stood in the graveyard behind the house, their overalls drenched and heavy with rain. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fireworks exploded across the night sky, and glitter rained down over London. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Hush, Ben, don’t be silly. Anyway you need to be getting my good chairs back in the house. What if it starts to rain?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it rained for the rest of the day, we spent most of the afternoon goofing off in the rec room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In its own evolution through unknown hosts and hidden pathways in the rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard he’s why we’ve had no rain for months,” I continued. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There might be part of a breeze later as the rain came and it would help. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had been raining all morning, and now it starts again. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

For a half second Pong hoped they would dump rain, keeping everyone inside and off the bridge, but the air still smelled dry. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Our story begins on the ocean, with wind and rain and thunder and lightning and waves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The long ship lay steady on the waves and went gallantly, but the steersman at the long steering-sweep in the stern looked into the rain that beat the sea and saw nothing but the rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed it back open in time to see her dash out the door at the other end of the stockroom, heading out into the rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A thin thatch roof kept out most rain. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A fresh spring fed it when the rain stopped. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t mentioned Miss Lilian, my brother and I would still be telling tales about the old days, amusing ourselves while the rain fell and the wind blew. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it rains heavy, I might have to put some buckets in the living room to catch the water coming through. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had begun to rain hard, so having stacked the sandbags neatly beside the door, they hurried inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was raining over the ocean, the wall of it so heavy that it appeared nothing existed beyond. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I will bear whatever sentence they wish to rain on me, all the volleys of their prayers and curses. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In pity for his friend, and perhaps for himself, Vetch tried to turn aside for a little that rude ceaseless wind that bore the rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rain on my hood made the world very small, and I found myself filled with thoughts as I walked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was too heavy for me to skateboard. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I lay flat on the bank and heard the river and the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ma opened the door to let in the rain and a soaking wet Seth Clemson. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Full bellies, the warm crackling fire, the rain pattering on the roof and falling gently on the sand pulled them together and held them close. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was hammering down, almost deafening, and I found myself liking it. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

If Fiver’s horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain, oblivious of cold and prowling elil, then clearly it was not going to be easy to talk him out of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because the rains had arrived, for Inti still reigned in the daytime skies, but because it was Coya Raymi, a time of celebration for the women. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was like my thoughts about rain had brought it on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All that night it rained and all the next morning: warm, gray, coming down soft and steady as a dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On Easter Monday the rain began again in earnest. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Snowfall is never known there, neither long frost of winter, nor torrential rain, but only mild and lulling airs from Ocean bearing refreshment for the souls of men— the West Wind always blowing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the laws have changed my grandmother still takes us to the back of the bus when we go downtown in the rain. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But when it rains, the rain comes through my window when I am sleeping. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had a secret place atop an old tannery where three roofs met, making a shelter from the wind and rain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thus, amidst uncertainties and temptations, arrived the autumn with its rains. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The head struck his maimed hands, bounced away from the stumps of his fingers, and landed at his feet, raining maggots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a while brother Tom found him, sitting in the rain, and sat with him and shared the darkness and the rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had rained the night before our first day of school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The barnyard was muddy from the April rain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

So every time it rained outside, it rained in the kitchen, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brewing high thunderheads, he churned the deep with both hands on his trident—called up wind from every quarter, and sent a wall of rain to blot out land and sea in torrential night. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady and Hattie Mae were talking about how hot it had been and how there wasn’t even a hint of rain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy tosses his head back and laughs, a laugh that falls gentle and wild like desert rain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His hair was still wet from the rain, and his eyelids were red from crying. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It hardly ever rained all day and all night, even at the peak of the rainy season. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I felt myself being hauled up and out of my seat, and almost before I realized what was happening, I was slipping down the wet bus steps and tumbling into the pouring rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I recognize the smell—his smell—spice and rain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the rain falling in the fountain of the garden. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He came around, rain falling on his face, still lying on the field, with someone leaning over him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It had been raining for days, but on that day, the sun was shining like a bright new penny. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear something in the kitchen crackling in grease, which almost sounds like rain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Black tents sprouted like mushrooms after a rain, and blankets and bedrolls cov-ered the bare ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see a bear, didn’t see a salamander, didn’t see foxfire, didn’t see anything actually—just perpetual dribbles and droplets of rain adhering to my glasses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wears glasses, and when last seen was wearing a gray tweed sports coat, khaki pants, and a yellow rain slicker. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her nurse- slave carried an umbrella when my mother predicted rain and a parasol when she predicted sun. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had ceased, but it was as if night itself had begun to sweat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day she actually let me sit outside in the rain. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They trudged along as fast as they could, over patches of grass, and through thick drifts of old leaves; and all about them the rain pattered and trickled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In spite of drought, it holds out its arms with hope and waits for rain. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside it smelled as if it would soon rain again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, windblown rain began to fall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Old Benedikt cupped his hand above his eyes and peered upward, assessing the sky through the pelting rain. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When she woke up it was raining, and she was lying in a ravine full of bomb craters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky grew steadily denser, and foretold a heavy summer rain before nightfall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Drizzling rain, driving rain, lightning storms and thunder. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next impact brought pieces of coral raining down on us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sat in the rain for a while, letting it clean the blood off me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Reed squinted at the clouds, bristling with rain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sank beneath the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw looked out of the windows of the saloon car, through the streams of rain. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was leaning over the rail at the front, peering into the rain like she was trying to see right across the playing field. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call into the hallway, thinking of the way my feet got so cold when I was trapped in the rain the other day. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Was it then that I heard the first tappings of rain? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soon she would be driving in the rain to take the nursing boards on computer No. 12. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she looks at the eyes of her older colleagues and wonders what they did when the electricity was out, when there were no candles, when the rain came through the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The chill sky, misty with fine rain near the treetops, made even the familiar landscape around Hampden seem indifferent and remote. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Did she ever think she’d be on a bus, drenched from the rain, smelling like sorrow and regret? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’d read once upon a time that storm petrels can appear when it clears after days of rain, but I’ve never seen one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the words come back to him like summer rain pouring from the sky: Blessed be the name of God’s Kingdom forever and ever. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It rained steadily for two hours and then stopped. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped and the last rays of the sun were disappearing when I awoke. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I’d be an umbrella to keep rain from someone’s head. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The earth is stained black from the morning rains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing a bird sing in the rain is on my list of things to make a wish on. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She rained missiles at him as he scampered clumsily into a tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day they spent the last of their money, standing in the rain to eat cold doughnuts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earwax poured out of the side of my head and sweat rained down from my underarms,” he continued. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Splintered limbs flew skyward and rained out over the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the rain does the work for me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he walked through the rain back down the treacherous ivy-covered path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was looking like rain and I wanted to smell that fresh, good rain smell. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Here the rain is warm, and in Phnom Penh, it meant it was time to go outside and play. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had the hoods of their coats up but the coats were getting wet and heavy from the rain. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Will and Claire stood up then, while the rain poured down beyond the wire screens, over the trees and garden and marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer out through the glass of the train window, which is streaked with rain and dust, and there is the landscape of my early childhood, smudged and scentless and untouchable and moving backward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt rain on my shoulders and looked up to see if I would be called inside. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If a storm hit New Orleans at all, it would be greatly diminished, no more than a day of grey gusts and rain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And we would watch their temper over the course of the day like farmers in Oklahoma watch rain clouds. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He hoped it wouldn’t rain, for rain would spot the red saddle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the Adantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and setde forever in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, trying to blink the rain out of his eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have had rain, too—great drenching storms of it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the rain came that day, the other gardeners all ran in the same direction, as if in a fire drill. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

With rare exceptions, the protesters picketed six days a week—every day but Sunday—through rain and snow and summer heat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So when it rains in New York, nobody crosses at the crosswalks. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was damp from the spring rains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It rains very little in the Dutch West Indies unless there is a hurricane, and water from the few wells has a heavy salt content. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm winds carry the sweet smell of jasmine and the promise of rain. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was an aerial view of rain forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The charred sticks still lay on the rocks where the rain had quenched them but the sand by the water was smooth again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Outside, the rain pats the muddy walkways between the buildings. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They remain awhile at the table, talking, the sound of the rain echoing quietly in the enclosed space behind the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It stopped raining after a while and the stars came out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it might be annoying to rain on yourself all the time, but Auster didn’t seem to care. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The rain had slowed to a halfhearted drizzle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The rain slows, and beads of water collect in the palms of green leaves in the trees, trailing to the edge of each leaf and plopping onto the roof. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The rain had let up, but a lonely breeze flapped the tent awning and chilled the night air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the cracker box, and crumbs rained down over the coffee table and the carpet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed the ladder into the white cupola and sat listening to the rain, watching the light come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish it would rain, sir,” he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a dark uniform and a full-length rain cape, he stood for a few moments gripping the hand of FISA’s Italian Swiss president, Rico Fioroni, as the two smiled and carried on an animated conversation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The road is empty, and her run is officially done, so she steps from the highway and into the yellow grass, still damp from rain. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over the river, he saw an iron sheet of rain coming toward him, lit up from behind through a rip in the dark purple of the clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Next, the water set off a lever attached to a wooden rain stick, nudging the rain stick to sway back and forth like a lazy seesaw. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We all have our troubles. Cruel words. No rain.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Arlington Park officials made a point of warning the public that if it rained, Seabiscuit probably would be scratched. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have rained the night before, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Wind in the trees, rain pattering on the shed’s roof, a fox barking. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We sit silently, listening to the rain on the thatched roof, a numb, damp, fatalistic feeling among us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, though, the rains seem more severe than ever, everyone says so. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t rained in forever and a day, and the bushes were shrunk and crumbly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The sky was heavy, promising even more rain, and the room was so cold that, in spite of the fire in the hearth, he was wearing his overcoat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if she was not nearly drowning from the rain, she would accept it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He heard what sounded like the pitter-patter of heavy rain on glass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A light drizzle turns the air to mist, and by the time I get back up to my room, a steady rain is pounding the ground. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When we get downstairs, Nora turns on all of the lights—since with the rain, no sunshine is coming through the one small window in the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ishmael lay down with his hands propping up his chin and looked out at the rain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept seeing Dante standing in the rain holding a bird with a broken wing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

"It's raining outside. And it's really cold. I don't understand. How did the snoop find us?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Van Texel said people were going to think it had stopped raining, but the rain was going to come back and there was going to be a big flood.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In moments it started to rain and he took what he had picked and trotted back to the shelter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain falls so thickly around her that she can hardly see more than a few paces ahead but she remains both warm and dry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The archers concealed behind die gorse had spoiled the song with a rain of arrows, and Tbeon himself had led his men-at-arms out to finish the butcher's work with dagger, axe, and warhammer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Through the windshield I saw the rain coming down in sheets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That evening, just after supper, the wind rose, and the rain fell down the wide chimney and hissed in the fire. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life changed completely when I was twelve, the summer the heavy rains came. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now softened and blurred by thousands of years of Egyptian desert sandblasting and by occasional rains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peals of thunder rolled around the mountain, and the rain turned into a downpour. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was understood that water evaporates from the oceans and becomes rain, and that the rain feeds rivers which flow to the ocean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whispers, almost indistinguishable from the rain, turn to normal speech, and I hear some voices lift above others, almost yelling, but not quite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The sea looked rough to me. There was wind and rain.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the endless rain that had replaced the snow couldn’t dampen his spirits. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The morning’s snow was melted except for dingy heaps along the gutters; it was raining now, a cold, small rain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She inhaled deeply; the air smelled of rain. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She hands him his umbrella, gasping as the rain seizes her the moment the handle passes from her fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The motor pool was only a few blocks away, but the rain was pouring down when Officer Delinko wearily came out of the headquarters building. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, after a night of rain—sunshine. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No rain will come, nothing will happen until the wedding is over,” he said, when Ugwu took him a plate of rice and meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since the rain began, all that Petra Cotes had done was to clear her courtyard of dead animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Except for what enters streams directly as rain or surface runoff, all the running water of the earth’s surface was at one time groundwater. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Out in the rain and snow all day long?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to walk three blocks to catch the bus — even when it was freezing or raining. Mom’d say, ‘Take the umbrella,’ as though anyone carries an umbrella!” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, it wasn’t as hot as Sunday; a warm rain fell throughout the day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the far south, from a high line of transparent golden clouds, yellow and pink rain wisps dangled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always, the plums were raining down, as though the trees were enchanted and would never die. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The unfinished Sanchez house lay open to wind and rain, and the new floorboards buckled and warped with moisture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The spirits would deliver us the message of no rain right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Winter was in the air, and the rains were just beginning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust rains down from the ceding, and sparks flicker through the air. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Fans along the shoreline peered through the curtain of rain, struggling to distinguish one boat from another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This time I didn’t have enough strength to rebuild the fire that had been rained out while I fitfully slept. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was holding Marcus’s letter, and I tucked it under my chin, address side down, while I put on my rain jacket. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And when Edmund pressed him back nearer and nearer to the wall, he jumped up on a mounting block and stood there raining down blows on Edmund from above. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And every day for five long months, until the rains came and she and her family could return home. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is night, sometime after Ucho returned from Machu Picchu and the crops grew from the plentiful rains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z