thunder-rains

Updated: May 20, 2025

But she had not fainted there; she had lived through its thunder-rains, its arid blasts of withering dust, its quivering quicksands, and its mirage-like meadows gay with deceitful, poisonous flowers.

Henry Rider Haggard - Stella Fregelius

For though hop-picking is a fascinating occupation when the sun shines and the sky is blue, it is otherwise when the mornings are damp or the hops dripping with dew, and when heavy thunder-rains have left the ground wet and cold.

Arthur H. Savory - Grain and Chaff from an English Manor