What is "hailstorm"

Usage examples of "hailstorm".

The bailiff motioned for me to step down, off the witness chair, and I tried desperately to walk upright back to the bench where Baggy was still hunkering down, like a stray dog in a hailstorm.

Spring came: quiet, unspectacular and after many false starts: hailstorms and high winds dovetailed with days of unwintry peace.

Here he encountered an April hailstorm, and had to shelter in a hagg, where he ate his luncheon with intense relish.

Teeth loosened and began to rain down into the crevasses of the east and onto the steppes to the west with the force of a violent hailstorm.

Sir Walter Scott with a bugle blast worth a thousand men the Lover of Poetry went down with a Rebel bullet through his heart, his prospect of a battle gone withershins in a tumultuous rout down the steep bluff for four small boats to carry them back across the wide river white as a hailstorm with bullets fired from the abandoned heights and of those thousand men nine hundred lost, shot, drowned, or left for prisoners on the dark Virginia shore.

We had scaled Dawson with the aid of ropes, since snowslides covered the trail, and crossed the Cut Bank in a hailstorm.

And I, who in wanton Paris had passed as an innocent child through a hotbed of sensuality and a hailstorm of seduction, on a single twilight eve in London had four or five encounters the particulars of which remained in my memory as barbed arrows remain imbedded in the flesh, smarting and itching and burning like the thorny fibres of cactus or sweetbriar seed with which one has come into too close contact.

And the flakpanzers, moving forward and risking their thin plating to hose their quadruple 20mm autocannon over the village, short bursts that hit like horizontal explosive hailstorms.

Doe keyed the microphone and declared ScotAir 50 ready for the instrument landing approach to Runway 32 just as the 727 penetrated a hailstorm, the deafening sound of hailstones impacting the aluminum skin of the Boeing making conversation momentarily impossible.

A brief reprieve of warmth, just long enough to unfold tentative blossoms on fruit trees, was reversed by late spring hailstorms that ravaged the delicate blooms, dashing hopes of the promised harvest.

Eventually they form a circle around the girl, and then the drumming builds to a deafening crescendo, speeds up until it devolves into a rhythmless hailstorm, and then suddenly, instantly, stops.

Cosette could not stir that she did not draw down upon herself a hailstorm of undeserved and severe chastisements.

For he saw not only the threat of poisonous ergot in the grain, hailstorms warranting insurance benefits, and multitudes of field mice in the near future, but predicted to the day when prices would take a dive on the Berlin or Budapest grain exchange, bank crashes in the early thirties, Hindenburg's death, the devaluation of the Danzig gulden in May 1935.

Inside the cloud the gauziness proved to be flakes of ice, which peppered them in slivers and chunks and rounds like a hailstorm.

He answered: We can easily cause hailstorms, but we cannot do all the harm that we wish, because of the guardianship of good Angels.