Hailstones

"_Simulacra gentium argentum et aurum, opera manuum hominum_," like hailstones rattled the Latin words down on my prison. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Pearls signify both tears and teeth; the latter are sometimes called hailstones, from their whiteness and moisture; the lips are cornelians or rubies; the gums, a pomegranate flower; the dark foliage of the myrtle is synonymous with the black hair of the beloved, or with the first down on the cheeks of puberty. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

“Some of the hailstones were the size of billiard balls,” said a resident of the village of Artem. ❋ IWPR (2008)

"The most remarkable point in connection with the hailstones is the fact that, judging from our present knowledge, a very long time must have been occupied in their formation." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Most of the hailstones were the size of a hen's egg, and crashed through windows and pounded against the house, making a noise that was not only deafening but paralyzing. ❋ Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (N/A)

In Tokyo (you can tell it’s Tokyo because of all the neon signs, and, er, the Japanese people), there’s a hailstorm in which the hailstones are the size of volleyballs, powerful enough to kill instantly anyone they hit, and also so heavy that they can knock huge neon signs off the sides of buildings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Jim Maxwell has gleefully foretold "hailstones", while Jonathan and I have just been looking a weather website forecasting DAMAGING WINDS. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Volcanic ash clouds commonly contain ash aggregates -- small pea-sized balls of fine-grained ash (volcanic "hailstones"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

That all bodies, such as hailstones, if away from this earth's atmosphere, would have to move at planetary velocity -- which would be positively reasonable if the pronouncements of St. Isaac were anything but articles of faith -- that a hailstone falling through this earth's atmosphere, with planetary velocity, would perform 13,000 times as much work as would raise an equal weight of water one degree centigrade, and therefore never fall as a hailstone at all; be more than melted -- super-volatalized -- ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

D'ye recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of the famine at Nuklukyeto? — or when she raced the ice-run to bring the news? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In working cooperatively with Mother Nature (or in spite of her antics like drought, blight and giant hailstones), there constantly are life-affirming moments. ❋ Liz Neumark (2010)

The frequency of hail in spring is more surprising, because summer thunderstorms are bigger, more frequent and unleash the most damaging hailstones. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He paused for a moment to give his threats a chance to sink in, and when they did, goose bumps marched up my entire body and I cried tears the size of hailstones. ❋ Thomas Slater (2011)

What about a prolonged twilight condition, one where it was not hot but light enough to see your enemies this is in accordance with the observation of the hailstones and the cloud cover necessary to produce them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The hailstones came before the sun stopped and if Joshua couldn't see the sun through clouds, he would not have written that it stopped. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And unlike summer hail, spring hailstones are a sign of cold weather; as a 17th century saying goes: "A storm of hail, Brings frost in its tail". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Spring thunderstorms tend to be weaker, but owing to lower air temperatures spawn more outbreaks of hail, although the hailstones tend to be small, soft and often partly melted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"urgh, after those shots of [jager], i got totally [hailstoned]" "A few [toke's] of this shit and you'll be hailstoned in no time" ❋ Debbie M And Paul W (2008)

After Jon [ate that] [burrito] he was [raining] some serious "Hershey Hailstone!" ❋ My Anus (2013)