"Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow.
Water is an essential of life, and in most countries the supply of it depends upon showers.
One chorus brought me out of bed in Daytona--in the evening--after a succession of February dog-day showers.
Her mind is such a rich pocket that as she digs in it (her head to the side and her tongue well out) she sends up showers of nuggets.
Its great length rendered it almost insensible to the swell of the Amazon, but during the torrential showers the Garral family had to keep indoors. They had to occupy profitably these hours of leisure.
The intimate association of frogs and toads with water has earned for these creatures a widespread reputation as custodians of rain; and hence they often play a part in charms designed to draw needed showers from the sky.
The English, keeping side by side in a great mass, cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. When the Norman horsemen rode against them, with their battle-axes they cut men and horses down.
The moon shone on the pasture land about Carentan, but he had noticed great masses of white cloud that were about to scatter showers of snow over the country, and doubtless the fear of being overtaken by a storm had quickened his pace in spite of his weariness.
So, week by week, poor Peter came And turned in heaviness away; For still the answer was the same, 'I cannot manage it to-day.' And now the April showers were dry-- The five short weeks were nearly spent-- Yet still he got the old reply, 'It is not quite convenient!'