hail-storms

So the years went on — slow enough they seemed to us sometimes — the green winters, pretty cold, I tell you, with frost and hail-storms, and the long hot summers.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

The weather was very boisterous and cold, with heavy hail-storms.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The weather was very boisterous and cold, with heavy hail-storms.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Conjurations to avert hail-storms, or formulas to draw rain, evil charms to render fields barren or to kill cattle, love philters and rejuvenating salves, old women's remedies, talismans against the evil eye, -- all are based on popular superstition and kept in existence by folk-lore and charlatanism.

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

At other times great hail-storms would drive both man and beast to the nearest shelter.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The first was the passage of two terrible hail-storms over a portion of the country, destroying the crops, killing lambs, and stripping the bark from trees.

Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman David J. Deane

These hail-storms, however, at least in this excessive degree, are not very frequent; they sometimes do not occur once in five years.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

Bloomingdale road, and dispensed the most undeniably good republican drinks, cobblers, cock-tails, slings, and hail-storms, with other more substantial and excellent things to match.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

The humidity and pressure of the air, the velocity of the wind, rain and snow, sleet and hail-storms, tornadoes and cyclones, are among the many topics discussed.

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

Madame Sand describes the havoc as unprecedented in her experience -- the flowers and grass killed, the leaves scorched and yellowed, the baked earth under foot literally cracking in many places; no water, no hay, no harvest, but destructive cattle-plague, forest-fires driving scared wolves to seek refuge in the courtyard of Nohant itself -- the remnant of corn spared by the sun, ruined by hail-storms.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas