He had found a depression with rain water in it.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.

The teeth will rain from his mouth like pebbles, his wife will make him cocu with fishmongers, and a trolley car will grow in his stomach.

He spoke of the season of dryness and dust, brought by the monsoon from the northeast, in harmony with the season of rain and mud, brought by the monsoon from the southwest.

She ate what she could and went out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

On January 19, 1862, the ill-prepared Confederates, after a night march in the rain, attacked the Union force with some initial success.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the valuable statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain.

Ajmer has a hot semi-arid climate with over 55 centimetres ( 25. 4 in ) of rain every year but most of the rain occurs in the Monsoon months, between June and September.

The water system starts with rain water, processed for drinking, then washing, then plant watering, then toilet flushing, and finally black water is recycled again for more plant watering.

In regions with sufficient rainfall, it is often more economical to design a building to use rain, with supplementary water deliveries in a drought.

Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids.

The problem of acid rain has not only increased with population and industrial growth, but has become more widespread.

Dry for nine months of the year, it receives or more of rain, mostly during July and August.

If rain arrives, it is usually between August and October.

: Sudden cloudbursts are common from October to April ; they bring heavy rain which can damage roads and houses ; sandstorms and dust storms occur throughout the year, but are most common between March and August

On August 6, 1993, heavy torrential rain caused extensive flooding and landslides in the area including Ryugamizu, where 49 people lost their lives from the disaster.

The city's highest rainfall in 24 hours occurred on 7 August 1953, when about of rain lashed the city, resulting in major flooding.

Most rain fall between May and August, when around two days in three record measurable rainfall and around one in ten over.

On occasions, as in August 1955, the town has had measurable rain on every day of a month in this period.

The capital, Nouméa, located on a peninsula on the southwestern coast of the island normally has a dry season which increases in intensity from August until mid-December, ending suddenly with the coming of rain in January.

The least rain falls in August, when averages in various parts of the region range from.

Annual precipitation averages 30 to 45 centimetres ( 12 to 18 inches ) across the province, with the bulk of rain falling in June, July, and August.

Less rain falls from April to August although no month receives less than.

China shot 1, 104 rain dispersal rockets from 21 sites in the city of Beijing in an effort to keep rain away from the opening ceremony of the games on 8 August 2008.

* August 6 – According to Japanese government and TBS networks reports, torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.

* August 18 – Two charter buses push into the Hida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan, in an accident caused by heavy rain ; 104 are killed.

* Heavy massive rain, landslides, and flooding in western and southwestern Japan kill an estimated 2, 566, and injure 9, 433, mainly at Kizugawa, Wakayama, Kumamoto and Kitakyushu ( June – August ).

* August 8 – Mysterious rain of frogs in Weil der Stadt

Instead of being one to two miles distant, as on 31 July, on 20 September the British objectives were approximately 1, 500 yards away, without the disadvantage of rain soaked ground and poor visibility encountered in August.

Captured on August 8, 1758 by the Kahnawake ( Mohawk Indians ) during a military campaign near Crown Point in New York, he was saved from being ritually burned alive by a rain storm and the last-minute intervention of a French officer.

Climbers can expect afternoon rain, hail, and lightning from the seasonal monsoon in late July and August.

The final, on 6 August, was again held in the pouring rain, but Blankers-Koen completed the inaugural Olympic 200 m for women in 24. 4, seven tenths of a second ahead of runner-up Audrey Williamson — still the largest margin of victory in an Olympic 200 m final.

Corn fields flourish after a heavy rain in Prowers County, August 1, 2010

Most rain falls between May and August, but unlike drier parts of southwestern Australia, showers are not infrequent even during the summer.