A violent tempest a sudden hailstorm or an unusual rise in rivers all were at once attributed to magic influences and the authorities urged and importuned to prevent a recurrence with all its disastrous consequences by punishing the guilty authors - Modern Magic by Maximilian Schele de Vere

They grumble though not very bitterly regarding the taxes as a sort of periodical hailstorm falling on their year's harvest - The Roman Question by Edmond About

He accordingly ran rattling the cart like a hailstorm before him downhill and out of their sight - Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood