Occasionally a breath of Nature, a
raindrop of pathos and tenderness, or a gleam of humor, will find its way into the midst of his fantastic imagery, and make us feel as if, after all, we were yet within the limits of our native earth.
Bright flashes of lightning lit up every
raindrop, and with them came cracks of thunder that went away rumbling and bumping as though Saint Swithin were busy rolling great casks of water across rough ground overhead.
Miss Carpenter looked up, and immediately received a heavy
raindrop in her eye.
All about us we could hear the felty beat of the
raindrops on the soft dust of the farmyard.
Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some
raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves.
We find him next, or rather get back to him, standing forlorn in the cold autumn rain at a suburban street corner in Blackburg; and it seems right to explain now that the
raindrops falling upon him there were really not dark and gummy; they only failed to make his face and hands less so.
The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering
raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
A heavy, lowering storm cloud had blown up, and big
raindrops were falling.
I put a small pot of water in the cage, though they never could have tasted water yet unless they drink the
raindrops off the beech leaves.
Every thread of that old attire has become faded and thin under the stroke of
raindrops, the burn of sunbeams, and the stress of winds.
Anne awoke to find
raindrops pattering against her window and shadowing the pond's gray surface with widening rings; hills and sea were hidden in mist, and the whole world seemed dim and dreary.
His clothes were shiny from the wet;
raindrops hung from his beard.