"Rainy season" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parts there are two distinct seasons during which rain falls. In the north of Brazil the rainy season is in September; in the south it occurs in March. Consequently the right-hand tributaries and the left-hand tributaries bring down their floods at half-yearly intervals, and hence the level of the Amazon, after reaching its maximum in ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
... son of the Spring Princess grew up to be the Giant of the Rain. In the rainy season and the season of thunder showers he rules upon the earth. He sends upon the earth such tears as the Spring Princess shed in the depths ...
— Tales of Giants from Brazil • Elsie Spicer Eells
... The rainy season was unusually severe that year, and came all too soon; then fever broke out in the jungle villages—it came to Maung Yet's house, and Mah Soh was one of the first to die. Bebe cried, and when no one knew, ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... and the source of the food supply. Her son, the corn god, became, as the Egyptians put it, "Husband of his Mother". Each year he was born anew and rapidly attained to manhood; then he was slain by a fierce rival who symbolized the season of pestilence-bringing and parching sun heat, or the rainy season, or wild beasts of prey. Or it might be that he was slain by his son, as Cronos was by Zeus and Dyaus by Indra. The new year slew ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... tempered by constant sea breezes; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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