1 This time they did not heed the cruel pellets that swept over them like hail.
2 It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 3 A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine.
4 The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke.
5 As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly.
6 It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner.
7 At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
8 Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest.
9 But ere her commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he could hopefully hail, Ahab's voice was heard.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 10 Then suddenly came a hail from below: "Get your clothes on now, girls, and come along."
11 It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field.
12 When they're deep they won't stop for a hail.
13 Why," said Dantes, "if in two or three days you hail any fishing-boat, desire them to come here to me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 14 It was a human storm, made up of a thunder of cries, and a hail of sweetmeats, flowers, eggs, oranges, and nosegays.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 15 These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings.