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Example sentences for "drizzling rain"

  • A drizzling rain fell at intervals, and the pavements were slippery with mud.

  • On October 5th this work substantially was finished, and shortly after noon on that day, in a drizzling rain, the batteries for the last time formed line as a regiment of United States Volunteers.

  • There was a drizzling rain when we entered THIS TOWN.

  • The view, from the further end of it, is considered to be one of the finest in Europe: but, when I attempted to enjoy it, every feature of the landscape was obscured by drizzling rain.

  • It was a good long sixteen mile stage; and darkness and a drizzling rain overtook us ere we had got over half of it.

  • The day at first was fine, but ere we reached Novales, a distance of three leagues, the sky became overcast, and a mist descended, accompanied by a drizzling rain.

  • There was a drizzling rain and a high sea, when I observed a young man of about two and twenty leaning in a melancholy attitude against the side of the vessel.

  • Shortly before we reached the summit of the pass thick mists began to envelop the tops of the hills, and a drizzling rain descended.

  • The wind began now to rise, bearing on its wings a drizzling rain.

  • The same day most of the fleet moved up the river, and our regiment went ashore to allow our boats to be cleansed, and before we were allowed to go aboard again, we enjoyed the luxury of being out in a drizzling rain.

  • The following day a drizzling rain drove us into the town for shelter.

  • The wind was damp with a drizzling rain, which was most welcome to us, as we expected to renew the march at an early hour.

  • The morning was heavy with clouds, and the column was scarcely in motion when a drizzling rain set in.

  • A thaw had set in, the roads were heavy from the effects of a fine, drizzling rain, and the guns, those guns that had been cast by popular subscription and were to the Parisians as the apple of their eye, could not get up.

  • They had to proceed with caution, feeling their way, for the exhalations continued to rise from the stream and were now so dense that they were precipitated in a fine, drizzling rain.

  • The night was very cold, with a drizzling rain.

  • There was a drizzling rain, and we had waterproofs thrown over our shoulders.

  • There was a drizzling rain and a dense fog; it was impossible to see what the enemy were doing.

  • Kristy, standing before the window, peering out into a world of drizzling rain.

  • Illustration: Kristy stood, peering into a world of drizzling Rain.

  • It is too early for the heather-bloom, which will brighten the dreary landscape a few weeks later, and a drizzling rain is falling from lowering clouds.

  • Our fine weather has vanished and a drizzling rain is falling at intervals.

  • A drizzling rain is falling when we leave the cathedral city for Newton Abbot and Totnes, directly to the south; in the market-place of the first-named town is the stone upon which William III.

  • Where he stood the leaden sky had broken into a drizzling rain, which was being driven before the wind in clouds like mist.

  • Towards nightfall the tops of the heights that towered round us were hidden in the clouds, and a drizzling rain came on, which drove us under the shelter of the scattered bushes among which we had made our bivouac.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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