What is "hailstorms"

Usage examples of "hailstorms".

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

Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that, just as easily as they raise hailstorms, so can they cause lightning and storms at sea.

I adjure you, hailstorms and winds, by the five wounds of Christ, and by the three nails which pierced His hands and feet, and by the four Holy Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, that you be dissolved and fall as rain.

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.

After handing out advice for many years in his native Nickelswalde, after guiding wheat production between Neuteich and Bohnsack with mealworm pointers and making it profitable, after predicting, with flat ear against mealworm-inhabited sack, plagues of mice, hailstorms, the devaluation of the Free City gulden, the collapse of the grain exchange, the date of the Reichspresident's death, and the ill-omened visit of the fleet to Danzig harbor, he now succeeds, with Goldmouth's support, in leaping from provincial obscurity to world fame throughout West Germany: three gentlemen drive up in a jeep belonging to the occupation authorities.

I might as well grumble because Tlaloc's hailstorms destroy the nourishing maize but never a disagreeable thornbush.

But an inferior power can cause hailstorms and bring about diseases without the help of a power greater than itself.

He continues: They stir up and confound the elements by the aid of the devil, and arouse terrible hailstorms and tempests.

And what the civil law tolerates is shown in the chapter on witches, where it is said that those who have skill to prevent men's labours from being vitiated by tempests and hailstorms are worthy, not of punishment, but of reward.

Wherefore the ecclesiastical judge must take particular note whether the methods used in counteraction of hailstorms and tempests are within the spirit of the law, or whether they are in any way superstitious.

For how else could it happen, as it has very often been found, that tender girls of eight or ten years have raised up tempests and hailstorms, unless they had been dedicated to the devil under such a pact by their mothers.

And the girl answered: I can make it rain, and I can make hailstorms and tempests too.

The polycarbonate armor deflected the blades, and two of the Mags got off lucky shots with their Sin Eaters, spraying several warriors with hailstorms of lead.

The machine guns of the jammed-up Sandcat continued to hammer away, spewing steel-jacketed hailstorms in a 360-degree circuit.

Encouraged by his questions and comments, she told him about her village, her father and mother, her brother and grandma, about the ducks and chickens, the hailstorms and sicknesses, the weddings and fairs.