1 It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.
2 The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees.
3 It was a fine day, sunny after rain, and the air was unusually pure.
4 Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.
5 The rain had stopped, and only the mist was falling and drops from the trees.
6 The horses, being drenched by the rain, all looked black whether chestnut or bay.
7 At times a sort of mist descended, and then suddenly heavy slanting rain came down.
8 On the twelfth of July, on the eve of that action, there was a heavy storm of rain and hail.
9 The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.
10 On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow.
11 Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him.
12 Denisov in a felt cloak and a sheepskin cap from which the rain ran down was riding a thin thoroughbred horse with sunken sides.
13 The rain was descending in torrents, and Rostov, with a young officer named Ilyin, his protege, was sitting in a hastily constructed shelter.
14 An officer of their regiment, with long mustaches extending onto his cheeks, who after riding to the staff had been overtaken by the rain, entered Rostov's shelter.
15 That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side.
16 The wide expanse that opened out before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished.
17 They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.
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