Like a dark rain, ashes fell from the elevated railway above our heads.

We stood mute, motionless, as ashes fell about us like a dark rain.

When you shake the limbs the fruit comes down like dark rain.

It seemed quiet and alone, out by themselves in the dark rain.

The sky was dark gray, threatening rain, until the Pope appeared, he recalled.

He saw one old woman go down and others flinch as arrows fell around them like dark rain.

Meanwhile down below the bread line winds around the park, outlined by the white newspapers the people hold up against the dark rain.

I called Billy and pointed into the dark rain.

One minute the tents rippled like sheets of dark rain.

The low light was like some bright fall afternoon, just after rain: dark sky above, yet everything close by bright and glistening.