The summer of 1727 proved one of the rainiest within men's memory, and floods covered the face of the country almost to the Parsonage door.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It was the very rainiest, wettest, muddiest picking-season that had ever been seen.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
They could go out on the rainiest days."
"Peggy in Her Blue Frock"
Eliza Orne White