Pluvius

So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey.

Ulysses 2003

Pluvius, being that of an old man flying in the air, with his arms expanded, and a long beard which seems to waste away in rain.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Jupiter Pluvius suspended buckets, and celestial water-works rested awhile to make way for Terrestrial Fire-works.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 Various

As the hurler of thunderbolts he was called "the Thunderer," and as the opener of the windows of heaven, when it rained, he was designated "Jupiter Pluvius."

Astral Worship J. H. Hill

Pluvius, who seemed to take especial pleasure in demonstrating their failure, nineteen centuries after the contemptuous erasure of him from the calendar, to escape his power.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Suddenly, Pluvius unloosed all the fountains of the sky, and with scarcely a thought whither he was going, Mr. Middleton darted into the first haven of refuge, a little shop he happened to be just passing.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

All this is changed when the office of Jupiter Pluvius devolves upon man; different indeed are his methods.

A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874

Pluvius changed his mind at the last moment, and sheered off.

Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Sometimes Par_g_anya does the work of Indra, [242] the Jupiter Pluvius of the Veda; sometimes of Vâyu, the wind, sometimes of Soma, the giver of rain.

India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861