sunshower

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Nor will I look foward to a delightful sunshower or a spooky thunderstorm.

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  • Nor will I look foward to a delightful sunshower or a spooky thunderstorm. —  Blog updates
  • Dead face upturned to greet the sunshower lines on life lines on future lines on paper lines on hope —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • Re: Tell PETA to Stop Exploiting the Autistic Community (Got Autism Billboard) by sunshower Friday, October 10 @ 11: 19: 20 EDT —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • You'll see that it'll come extremely close to the six miles I predicted before it's all over By the time they had returned to the neighborhood of the mountains the sky had become blue, with only occasionally a passing sunshower, and Cosmo ordered the promenades to be thrown open, and the passengers, with great rejoicings, resumed their daily lounging and walking on deck It required a little effort of thought to make them realize their situation, but when they did it grew upon them until they could not sufficiently express their wonder Here they were, on an almost placid sea, with tepid airs blowing gently in their faces, and a scorching sun overhead, whose rays had to be shielded off, floating over the highest pinnacles of the roof of the world, the traditional "Abode of Snow All around them, beneath the rippled blue surface, lined here and there with little white windrows of foam, stood submerged peaks, 24,000, 25,000, 26,000, 27,000, 28,000 feet in elevation! —  The Second Deluge
  • But it was only a "sunshower," and when Mr. Minturn, with a quizzical look, told her to "take care, for she was losing some of her pearls," she laughingly wiped the glittering drops away and retorted I wish they were real pearls, and I would heap them upon you all When it was all over and the two girls were rolling swiftly on their way back to school, Jennie, her face radiant with delightful memories, informed Katherine that she had "never had such an out and out jolly time in all her life before It is like a diamond to me," she said, "for it will glisten and sparkle in my mind as long as I remember anything about this life. —  Katherine's Sheaves
 

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