Then the woman wrapped the rain babies in pieces of cloth and laid them to sleep in a drawer.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

As he handed the basket to his wife, a sudden rush of cool rain put out the fire.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

A crash of thunder sounded as a bolt of lighting struck the ground close to the basket where the rain babies slept.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The area is really a desert, receiving only about thirty-five centimeters of rain a year.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

A combination of snow, rain and freezing conditions caused traffic problems in Germany.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Then the old man and woman held the rain babies in the palms of their hands or they rocked them to sleep in a pair of wooden shoes.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

But now rain,sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The Bell 430 helicopter disappeared while flying through a heavy rain storm, en route to an unannounced inspection of a local district.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowded city's planners were stunned at the amount of rain that poured down in a short time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

About a 45-minute drive north of Vancouver, it has been hit with unseasonably warm temperatures that have brought rain and destroyed much of the existing snow.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"They may be kind of dream animals and the San, the spirit healers amongst the San people today, one of their main roles is to hunt these rain animals in their dreams in a trance state."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Friday started out stormy, but as the 14 soldiers, Marines and their families boarded a yacht for a sightseeing cruise around lower Manhattan, the dark rain clouds parted giving them a glorious view of the Statue of Liberty.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

"We needed rain yesterday,right,". "We needed rain most probably a fortnight ago for our crops to realize their full potential but most probably been 30 percent of our yield potential gone and every day it doesn't rain that will fall quite dramatically from there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Clinton arrived late Friday in a heavy rain at the Taj Palace Hotel on Mumbai's ocean front, which was one of the targets of Pakistan-based terrorists who killed 166 people in a coordinated series of attacks in the Indian business capital last November.

VOA: standard.2009.07.17

"Back before there were any awards of any kind for this kind of music, the reward for a blues man was a pocket full of change , some bills at the end of the night, and the knowledge that you've got a place to sleep out of the rain and the wind.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04