Falls in quantity

Usage examples of rains.

She realized that Joanna was on one side casting worried glances at her during the short ceremony, and she was very conscious of the assembled Rains hovering nearby.

Annie was aware of Joanna and the Rains moving forward to surround them and in the process hold the curious reporters at bay.

Annie said, pitching her voice low to avoid having the reporters and the rest of the Rains overhear.

Cran and in particular, at the great spring festival held each year as soon as the rains had ended, to perform her ceremonial coupling with the god in the presence of the rulers, nobility, priests and chief dignitaries of Bekla.

In many respects life in Bekla during the rains was anything but inactive.

Vintners, grocers and bakers commonly laid in large stocks well before the onset of the rains, while herds of cattle were driven into the covered pounds outside the Gate of Lilies, there to be fed on roots and hay, for slaughter as required.

I mean to join them as soon as the rains are over, with enough men to cross the Valderra and recapture Suba.

To take such action during the rains would make the effect more telling.

Taking her in his arms, he kissed her passionately and at once set about giving expression to the feelings he had declared so ardently at the Rains banquet.

It was less crowded than on the night of the Rains banquet, for Elvair-ka-Virrion had invited no more than sixty or seventy people altogether, men and girls.

Nor did she forget the night of the Rains banquet, when Meris had failed him and she herself had not.

Bekla the rains were mudlessand went in under the propped-up, penthouse shutter of the shop.

He remembered, now, having noticed her at the Rains banqueta golden-haired lass, strikingly beautiful.

The fastidious Sarget, though on the one hand wishing to continue to stand well with these young men, on the other hoped to avoid seeing his supper-party take on the tone of the Rains banquet and such-like functions governed by the tastes of men like Kembri or Sencho.

Thus, the leader of the Thlela had sought the frissoor from Durakkon at the Rains banquet, and Occula from Elvair-ka-Virrion before her now almost legendary act as the doomed huntress.