Careful Words

rainy (adj.)

  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxvii. 15.

Do not drop in for an after-loss.

Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet xc.