down-pour

The by-roads were miry beyond description, rain having fallen almost incessantly since we left Winchester, but notwithstanding the down-pour the column pushed on, men and horses growing almost unrecognizable from the mud covering them from head to foot.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

That down-pour of rain which visited us the day we crossed the

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The thick of the night was light and dark, with the dense intensity of down-pour; light in itself, and dark with shutting out all sight of everything — a close-at-hand confusion, and a distance out of measure.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Soon it began to drizzle; then the drops came faster, and there was a regular down-pour.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

Aimee crouched down on the branch, struggling to see into the cavity through the darkness and steady down-pour.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

As his eyes challenged hers, he gave a gentle but unrelenting tug on her arm, turning her away from the secondary growth and back into the down-pour.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

Half a dozen people were wandering through the shop, waiting for the down-pour to let up-an unusually large number for any day.

For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

Half a dozen people were wandering through the shop, waiting for the down-pour to let up-an unusually large number for any day.

For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983

Half a dozen people were wandering through the shop, waiting for the down-pour to let up-an unusually large number for any day.

For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

The landscape swam in a green haze and soon she was keeping to a road sheeted in the most relentless down-pour.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977