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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See rain, 2 .

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  • About once in every three years, and sometimes oftener, the crops of coffee, bananas, rice, etc., in this region are quite destroyed by sulphur-rain, which covers everything for miles around the crater. "

    Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata 1859

  • About once in every three years, and sometimes oftener, the crops of coffee, bananas, rice, etcetera, in this region are quite destroyed by sulphur-rain, which covers everything for miles around the crater. "

    Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859

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