“Some of the hailstones were the size of billiard balls,” said a resident of the village of Artem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Azerbaijan: Hailstorms Add to Karabakh���s Woes] Reference

Volcanic ash clouds commonly contain ash aggregates -- small pea-sized balls of fine-grained ash (volcanic "hailstones").    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Jim Maxwell has gleefully foretold "hailstones", while Jonathan and I have just been looking a weather website forecasting DAMAGING WINDS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

We emphasize that these objects were not hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Josue defeateth them: many are slain with hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 06: Josue The Challoner Revision] Reference

The hailstones came down like a very avalanche of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference

It is said that this object fell alone, or without hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

They took shelter from a sudden storm of fist-sized hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

One reads in the newspapers of hailstones the size of hens 'eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Like the swinging May-cloud that pelts the flowers with hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference

By his greatness he hath fixed the clouds, and the hailstones are broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

It is in the notion that these masses of ice are only congealed hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Fourteen days later, at about the same place, more of these hailstones fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Maryland, June 22, 1915: hailstones the size of baseballs "not at all uncommon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The Maryland hailstones are unusual, but a dozen strata have often been counted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The wind shrieked in his ear, and hailstones the size of his fist pelted the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status Civilization] Reference

From where he stood, it seemed that the hailstones were getting bigger by the minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference

The size of some hailstones has worried many meteorologists -- but not text-book meteorologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Many people had suffered by being struck by hailstones, some of which were as large as hens eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

Her words are hailstones rattling fell and fast, but melt into and soften the heart on which they fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Here, a young man, who was passing, stops to catch some of the hailstones in his hand, and examines them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is said that this was homogeneous ice, except in a small part, which looked like congealed hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

They were more frightened than hurt, but complained loudly at being placed in a cold-storage of hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference

Large hailstones noted at the University of Missouri, Nov. 11, 1911: they exploded with sounds like pistol shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The cracked chimney fell from its moorings, and, striking a teacup, spattered broken glass over the table like hailstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Vegetable débris, not only nuclear, but frozen upon the surfaces of large hailstones, at Toulouse, France, July 28, 1874.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

On the first stage from Verdun, in descending a steep, long hill, a hailstorm overtook us, and as the hailstones fell they froze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Torrents continued to fall, accompanied by large hailstones, but still the troops moved on, arriving eventually at the foot of Beacon.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

It is that in some of the hailstones -- two per cent of them -- that were found with the pieces of brick, was a light grayish powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

"The foreman of the Novelty Iron Works, of this city, states that in two large hailstones melted by him were found small living frogs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference