Sentence examples for rainier from inspiring English sources

Leaving England, we go through the Black Mountains, which live up to their name as it gets rainier and rainier as we head further into Wales until all is mist and windscreen wipers.

Rather than spend their way out of the gloom, most prefer to save for an even rainier day to come (see chart).Yet years of insecurity have left their mark.

If there's more rain, you might expect to see it in the lee of Green Mountain's central peak and there is indeed a rainier strip, the locals say, stretching across the island from Two Boats to Comfortless Cove, a frequent source of teatime drizzle in the rainier months.

Rainier is sometimes referred to by its Native American name, Mount Tacoma, or Tahoma.

In the rainier west the hills bear vegetation, but they are barren and stony in the east.

The English explorer George Vancouver sighted the summit on May 8 , 1792 and named it for fellow navigator Peter Rainier.

The Washington portion of the route is frequently rainy, producing hundreds of small glaciers and snowfields; the path crosses North Cascades and Mount Rainier national parks.

Public forestlands, national recreation areas, three national parks Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Olympic National Park, the latter of which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981 Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, and more than 125 state parks attract campers, hikers, and rock climbers during the summer months.

The Second was taken up simultaneously by the Austin Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Rainier Symphony, in Seattle.

They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).

In fact, it might today be no more than a mid-sized seaport with a spectacular view of Mount Rainier.