1.   After a brief shower and a rub-down with a face cloth and towel, was feeling refreshed.

2.   Along the Pacific Coast, a weak cold front entering Washington will be accompanied by patchy clouds and brief showers near the coast.

3.   And when the brief shower was over, the priests at the Benedictine monastery were a little bit wiser.

4.   As the jaunty theme music fades, he exhorts listeners to donate blood and take brief showers, root for local teams and get some exercise.

5.   A brief shower could occur in eastern Texas and Arkansas where moist air from the Gulf of Mexico arrives.

6.   A brief shower converts the little enclave of bumpy roads and semipaved lanes, lined with hides and bark used for dyeing, into a squalid mess.

7.   A brief shower or thunderstorm could accompany a weak cool front crossing the Appalachians and New England states.

8.   A few brief showers or thundershowers will blossom over the mountains of the central and southern Appalachians later Thursday afternoon as a jet stream disturbance approaches from the northwest.

9.   A few of these clouds could produce a brief shower, especially during the midday hours.

10.   Brief showers will dot the high ground from upstate New York to northern Maine.