Ringan cried to us to stand to our places, for now was the likely occasion for attack; but no human being could have fought in such weather.

Indeed, we could not hear him, and he had to stagger round and shout his command into each several ear.

The might of the deluge almost pressed me to the earth, I carried Elspeth into her bower, but the roof of branches was speedily beaten down, and it was no better than a peat bog.
That overwhelming storm lasted for maybe a quarter of an hour, and then it stopped as suddenly as it came.

Inside the palisade the ground swam like a loch, and from the hill-side came the rumour of a thousand swollen streams.

That, with the heavy drip of laden branches, made sound enough, but after the thunder and the downpour it seemed silence itself.