A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

He once, indeed, wished that they would amend the roof of his book-room, which “rained in” 23 in a very pluvious manner; but receiving no direct answer from our friend Meiklewham, who neither relished the proposal nor saw means of eluding it, the minister quietly made the necessary repairs at his own expense, and gave the heritors no farther trouble on the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

She was pale, the lips pressed tight, the pluvious eyes blinking rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

The fate of many a traveller who has since passed through that pluvious region, was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.] Reference

Only for one thing that, how-over famiksed I would become, I’d he awful anxious, you under — stand, about shoepisser pluvious and in assideration of the terrible luftsucks woabling around with the hedrolics in the coold amstop-here till the borting that would perish the Dane and his chapter of accidents to be atramental to the better half of my alltoolyrical health, not considering my capsflap, and that’s the truth now out of the cackling bag for truly sure, for another thing, I never could tell the leest falsehood that would truthfully give sotisfiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference