rainfall

• There is little irrigation, for in most parts the rainfall is ample. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
• There's some sort of an eleven-year cycle in rainfall, and there's a variation in temperature that seems to swing around about once in every thirty-seven or thirty-eight years, but the differences are so small that only Weather Bureau records can prove them. —  The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
• Bhimsen is the deity of rainfall, and Dharti Mata or Mother Earth is considered to be the wife of Thakur Deo, and must also be propitiated for the success of the crops. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• In this part of Burma the rainfall is very small, the inundations being the effect of heavy rains in the distant hill country which, as they come down, raise the level of the rivers, in some cases, as much as eighteen feet, and overflow the low-lying country Before beginning to construct the bed, he had carried the snakes into the Phongee; after first cutting off their heads which, as he knew, the Burmans never touch This is good, indeed, my son," the priest said. —  On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War
• The holding back of these flood waters in the upper part of the rivers, and so preventing these overflows, is termed storage of waters In still other regions the rainfall is abundant, and the land low-lying. —  Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation

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