Dear members,
It's raining heavily outside. Let me select some expressions related to rain from Somerset Muagham's famous short story 'Rain.'
Compare the dencity of rain with the disire of the missionary, Mr. Davidson(too human to be blamed).
The more heavily it rains, the more difficult it seems for the missionary to resist his desire.
The rain began to fall in torrents.
He stared at the slanting rain.
It was beginning to get on his nerves. It was not like our soft English rain that drops gently on the earth; it was unmerciful and somehow terrible; you felt in it the malignaney of the primitive powers of nature. It did not pour, it flowed. It was like a deluge from heaven, and it rattled on the roof of corrugated iron with a steady persistence that was maddening. It seemed to have a fury of its own. And sometimes you felt that you must scream if it did not stip, and then suddenly you felt powerless, as though your bones had suddenly become soft; and you were miserable and hopeless.
It seems to attract the rain from all over the Pacific.
He was extraordinarily moved, and as he spoke the tears ran down his cheeks. Outside, the pitiless rain fell, felll steadily, with a fierce malignity that was ll too human.
Meanwhile the rain fell with a cruel persistence. You felt that the heavens must at last be empty of water, but still it poured down, straight and heavy, with a maddening iteration, on the iron roof.