Light poured into the hallway and the first thing I heard was rain bouncing off the pavement.

It was a miserable night, rain bouncing off the tarmac, swamping every windscreen and rendering the cars in front a mere blur of red tail-lights.

As I climbed and turned left, up the next flight, the distant TV mush disappeared, its place gradually taken by the constant bass drum rhythm of rain bouncing off the roof.

I sat back and let myself be mesmerized by the rain bouncing around us.

He watched the hard rain bouncing off the hood of the car.

Now there were houses on her right and the shopping mall on her left, rain bouncing from the roofs and hoods of the automobiles and four-by-fours crowding the parking lot.

For a moment or two they watched the rain bouncing off the waters of the harbour.

Kelven glanced out at the rain bouncing on the dark rooftops.

Marines herded the first Romanans into the square, where they stared in amazement at the rain bouncing off the seeming nothingness.

It was a strange feeling waiting there in the car, like the old days working with the Maquis in France, and he remembered that morning in Amiens with the rain bouncing from the cobbles and the contact man who turned out to be an Abwehr agent.