They had to keep to the walks, and even these walks were drenched, as day after day deluges of rain fell from the heavens.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
A palm-shaded plateau beneath the hotel offers an ideal resting-place, but the impenetrable jungle covering the Penang Hills makes expeditions on foot or by chair, impracticable, and the wild deluges of rain, with terrific thunder peals bursting in uncontrolled fury on this exposed peak, minimise the delights of a mountain sojourn.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
It was always that way: too much sunshine and dry weather; then too much rain-floods of it, deluges of it.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley