It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense
drizzly fog lay low upon the great city.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,
drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
It was a dull,
drizzly day; but that was no matter: it was all the more suitable to my frame of mind.
It rained on the evening when the two met and talked, a
drizzly wet October rain.
Unfortunately the morning was
drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact that Barnard was shedding sooty tears outside the window, like some weak giant of a Sweep.
The day changes as it wears itself away and becomes dark and
drizzly. Jo fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum to pay for the unsavoury shelter of Tom-all-Alone's.
It was late in a
drizzly afternoon that a traveler alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N , in Kentucky.
The girl turned up at the Fynes' house at half-past nine on a cold,
drizzly evening.
The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey-- muggy, damp, and
drizzly. The horses in the stages that were going out, and had come through the city, were smoking so, that the outside passengers were invisible.
That afternoon the sky became overcast again, and squally,
drizzly weather set in.
The lovebirds, who came runners up in this summer's ITV2 series, swapped a rather grey and
drizzly Manchester for an even more
drizzly visit to Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
On a
drizzly Sunday night, Muhammad broke a 16-year-old world record in the 400-meter hurdles by finishing in 52.20 seconds at the U.S.