1 The whole place was very sloppy from the rain which had fallen through the night.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 Now, up to last night, we have had no rain for a week, so that those wheels which left such a deep impression must have been there during the night.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 3 There was not a soul to be seen, nor a sound to be heard, except the dripping of the rain.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W... 4 This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
5 It never fell as sun, shadow, or rain upon the world, but disregarded the little coloured ball of earth entirely.
6 Looking up she received two great blots of rain full in her face.
7 The rain was sudden and universal.
8 It was a wet night, and many groups of young women passed him, with their shawls drawn over their bare heads and held close under their chins to keep the rain out.
9 The rain fell, and the Smoke-serpents, submissive to the curse of all that tribe, trailed themselves upon the earth.
10 In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
11 The rain falls very heavy, and the wind has risen.
12 The wind was blowing again, the rain was beating on the house-tops, and the larger spaces through which he had strayed contracted to the four walls of his room.
13 She had nothing to do, then, but to cover herself with her shawl before going out into the wind and rain.
14 It had cleared the sky before it, and the rain had spent itself or travelled elsewhere, and the stars were bright.
15 It was only rain, beginning to fall fast, in heavy drops.