Rain. It rains about every other day now for a fortnight past.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 17, 1857
Rain. It rains about
every other day now
for a fortnight past.
Compare April 17, 1856 ("We have had scarcely any rain this spring ...”); see April 22, 1856 (“These rain-storms -- this is the third day of one -- characterize 'the season, and belong rather to winter than to summer.”); April 14, 1859 ("The seventh rain storm (as I reckon), beginning with the 18th of March.")
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