The campaign had progressed with torrential bitterness to its inevitable culmination.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
The sergeant went back to the library to hold himself at the magistrate's disposal; through the torrential downpour of rain Bouzille and the gendarme wended their way to the village; and left alone in her kitchen, Louise put out her lamp, for despite the shocking weather it was getting lighter now, and communed with herself.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
torrential winter rains had seriously affected the railway embankment, particularly near the mouth of the tunnel; a succession of heavy storms in the early part of December had so greatly weakened the ballast that the chief engineers of the Company had been hastily summoned to the scene of the mischief.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain