1It rained pitchforks and pineapples, but the hall, a large one, was completely filled.
2Raining pitchforks all the time, you understand.
3There is no credible report that it has ever yet rained pitchforks, but many other curious things have fallen.
4"But it's raining pitchforks," demurred Miss Judy.
5"You need," said he, "to have it rain pitchforks, tines downward, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday."
6"I picked up these two on their way home," Porter explained; "it is raining pitchforks, and I'm in my open car.
7* On another occasion he said, "You need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downward, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday."