All this time I worked very hard, the
rains hindering me many days, nay, sometimes weeks together; but I thought I should never be perfectly secure till this wall was finished; and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.
To us in the town spring brings but its cold winds and drizzling
rains.
There will be very few people in the pump-room, if it
rains all the morning.
Nay, sir,' exclaimed she, 'pray don't go now, while it
rains so fast.
But the storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the
rain.
It began to
rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
AN Officer of the Government, with a great outfit of mule-waggons loaded with balloons, kites, dynamite bombs, and electrical apparatus, halted in the midst of a desert, where there had been no
rain for ten years, and set up a camp.
As he spoke he motioned upward through the mist of the
rain to the sloping side of the mountain towering above them.
Why did you wickedly and viciously send the
Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?
Oh, the
rain, the
rain--the cruel
rain that chilled me last night!
Coast-road to Coquimbo -- Great Loads carried by the Miners -- Coquimbo -- Earthquake -- Step-formed Terrace -- Absence of recent Deposits -- Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations -- Excursion up the Valley -- Road to Guasco -- Deserts -- Valley of Copiapo --
Rain and Earthquakes -- Hydrophobia -- The Despoblado -- Indian Ruins -- Probable Change of Climate -- River-bed arched by an Earthquake -- Cold Gales of Wind -- Noises from a Hill -- Iquique -- Salt Alluvium -- Nitrate of Soda -- Lima -- Unhealthy Country -- Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an Earthquake -- Recent Subsidence -- Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition -- Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery -- Antiquity of the Indian Race.
The dull sky soon began to tell its meaning by sending down herald-drops of
rain, and the stagnant air of the day changed into a fitful breeze which played about their faces.
