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Fine and loose beds of sand also rapidly receive and transmit the rainfall unless the precipitation is exceedingly heavy under which conditions some of it may flow away on the surface. - "The Economic Aspect of Geology", C. K. Leith.
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He drank hard that night from the bottle which Fat Joe, in obedience to Steve's command, had left standing upon the shoulder- high shelf- drank first in a self- conscious fashion with a mumbled excuse to Joe that the rainfall had chilled him; then more and more openly, until he forgot that he had ever felt the need of an excuse. - "Then I'll Come Back to You", Larry Evans.
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A rainfall, extraordinary for its violence and duration, occurred on the morning of the succeeding day, so that, over places where during the battle one could scarcely get a drink of water, rolled torrents which, in the afternoon of the 22d, it was difficult to cross. - "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)", Jefferson Davis.