"He goes and comes with silent feet.  He sobs amid the rain."  From Red Apple and Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, 1899.

An illustration from The Experiences of a Forty Niner During Thirty Four Years Residence in California and Australia by Charles Ferguson (1888).  The caption reads: "A race with a shower."

An illustration from Cornhill Magazine (1866).

"It is nearly eleven o'clock, and the cold thin rain, which has been drizzling so long, is beginning to pour down in good earnest."  From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

"No droschke to be had again!"

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

An illustration from When Life is Young by Mary Elizabeth Dodge (1894).

An illustration from When William IV Was King by John Ashton (1896).

An illustration from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis (1888).

An illustration from When Life is Young by Mary Elizabeth Dodge (1894).

"Thanks to the Thunder": an illustration from an 1865 issue of Cornhill magazine.

An illustration from an 1870 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "In the face of the wind I fought my way."

An illustration from an 1887 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.  The caption reads: "The rain came on so suddenly, and there I was on the tower, amid the wet ivy, with that stupid boy, who couldn't be made to understand a thing."

An illustration from an 1894 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "Making the best of it."

An illustration from A Tramp Abroad Etc. by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1897).  The caption reads: "Turn on more rain."

An illustration from an 1894 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "'Surely you are not going out in this rain?' she cried."

"Not That Way": an illustration from The Fur Country by Jules Verne (1874).

Here's the patron saint of lone rainclouds, courtesy of Victor Moragriega.