hailstorm

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Again our artillery descended upon them like a hailstorm, and nothing came of the attack During all this time, in spite of the shelling, the troops were slowly working forwards through Pozičres; not backwards.

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  • Here he encountered an April hailstorm, and had to shelter in a hagg, where he ate his luncheon with intense relish. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said. —  KOMO - News - Top Stories
  • In that hailstorm, Mr. Causarano's trust company stood out. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • While I had been bouncing between several machines in my dad's office for my schoolwork and gaming (a terrifying Lanier word processor with a daisy-wheel printer that sounded like a hailstorm; an underpowered Commodore VIC-20 with the "8K Graphics Expansion Cartridge"; an infrared-keyboard-equipped and woefully slow IBM PCjr), Mom's new machine was going to be something different. —  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  • She was saved by a miraculous hailstorm, which put the fire out, and she ran to St Paul and asked for baptism. —  Roman Miscellany
 

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