Along the line for miles around a ragged meaningless fire was thundering, like the rain that goes on raining after a storm.

Perhaps he's right-perhaps it's begun to rain cholera after all.

Maybe it would rain today after all.

There was always the hope that it would rain tomorrow, after all.

Then, though the event had been planned 16 days beforehand, it started raining half an hour after the performance.

He raced toward the opposite wall, quartering among the low trees to avoid the bullets that rained after him.

It rained for a few days after that shake of early March.

It wouldn't rain after all, he noted with some satisfaction--or at least not until the following day.

His own blade whirled and danced, raining cut after cut at the creature's head.

"Rained all the after part of last night, rain continues this morning," he wrote in late 1805.