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  • Left, boys collect unripe mangoes from an uprooted tree that fell due to a hail-storm in Malda, some 350 kms north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, April 16, 2010.

    It's Mango Season 2010

  • Left, boys collect unripe mangoes from an uprooted tree that fell due to a hail-storm in Malda, some 350 kms north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, April 16, 2010.

    It's Mango Season 2010

  • She forced her way through the crowd, without regarding either their safety or her own, flew like a hail-storm along the streets, and never drew bridle till she was as far up this same Mont Saint Victoire as the road would permit.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • They were received with a hail-storm of stones, each the size of a melon, which seemed to darken the air for several minutes.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Harvest is not more certain than the effect of skill is: a crop is a chance, as much as a game of cards greatly played by a fine player: there may be a drought, or a frost, or a hail-storm, and your stake is lost; but one man is just as much an adventurer as another.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • In Bored Lady, we recognized our first manifestation of “Southern hospitality,” which is real, and beautiful—and takes twenty minutes longer than New York hospitality, which lasts thirty seconds and is considered successful if one walks away with one “Fuck you” instead of a hail-storm of them.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • In Bored Lady, we recognized our first manifestation of “Southern hospitality,” which is real, and beautiful—and takes twenty minutes longer than New York hospitality, which lasts thirty seconds and is considered successful if one walks away with one “Fuck you” instead of a hail-storm of them.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • In Bored Lady, we recognized our first manifestation of “Southern hospitality,” which is real, and beautiful—and takes twenty minutes longer than New York hospitality, which lasts thirty seconds and is considered successful if one walks away with one “Fuck you” instead of a hail-storm of them.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • In Bored Lady, we recognized our first manifestation of “Southern hospitality,” which is real, and beautiful—and takes twenty minutes longer than New York hospitality, which lasts thirty seconds and is considered successful if one walks away with one “Fuck you” instead of a hail-storm of them.

    Living Justice Jessica Blank 2005

  • The noise made by 1000 people shuffling along in clogs is like the clatter of a hail-storm.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

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