| 1. | I was soaked with hail above and puddle water below. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | The front door opened and a hail of bullets followed him. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Siste. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 4. | "Hail, O ye holy manes hail again. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | Hail hail to that whale, fishlike. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 6. | At 'em again There, take this copper-pump, and hail 'em through it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 8. | It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 9. | God sends me this, and I hail it joyfully. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | All night Achilles hails Patroclus' soul. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 12. | annoyance Of rain nor haile that them hurte might. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 13. | As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 14. | It seems that both the victims belonged, in their younger days, to the Latter Day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |