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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Zubin Varla (sings and) plays Feste so that he deserves to have the last say -- he makes him the resonating conscience of the play, the character who reminds us that "Present mirth hath present laughter," entails that "Youth 'a stuff will not endure" and, sadly, "The rain it raineth every day."
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Sexual repression is a particular kind of Englishness — an England where the rain it raineth every day beyond a retractable roof.
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And for those seeking something a little lighter, a nice rhyming poem from Lord Bowen:The rain it raineth on the just
Hmm mariness 2007
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When it raineth, it is his penthouse; when it bloweth, it is his tent; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle.
Castle Rackrent 2006
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In wintre it neuer raineth ther, and in Somer very often.
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And forasmuch as it ne raineth not in that country, but the air is alway pure and clear, therefore in that country be the good astronomers, for they find there no clouds to letten them.
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For there it raineth not but little in that country, and for that cause they have no water, but if it be of that flood of that river.
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Also when it raineth once in the summer in the land of Egypt, then is all the country full of great mires.
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And that water which fell downe and washed away the filth and soiling of the shippe, trod vnder foote, as bad as running downe the kennell many times when it raineth, was not lost.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A litle from this citie of Salina is a salt piece of ground, where the water groweth salt that raineth vpon it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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