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hailstone a pellet of hail |
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Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon experience, having been so curious as to weigh and measure them. A shower of rain drove down upon us, each drop stinging like a hailstone. Oaths flew like hailstones, and every now and then there came forth such an explosion as I thought was sure to end in blows. |
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