Clouds

Examples

• Repentance, replied the man, whose sinister brow gathered clouds as he spoke. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There were clouds over the lake and over the valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• That sky with its high and light clouds which are sure to melt away as the day waxes warm--this placid and balmly atmosphere? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Here is a weekly allowance, with a certain weight of coals, drops from the clouds upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They are attended with thick clouds and rain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• An iron rod about forty feet long and sharp at the end was placed upr ight in the hope of drawing electricity from the st orm-clouds. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was as the day went on that the clouds gathered, and the brightness of the morning became obscured. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Meg is the turtledove, and Amy is like the lark she writes about, trying to get up among the clouds, but always dropping down into its nest again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Looking out the window toward where we had lived you could not see the mountains for the clouds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There is always light behind the clouds. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Look in those clouds! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They dissolved into a vast multitude of fugitives streaming under great dust clouds and without a single rally across the hot plain towards Arbela. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those clouds look alarming. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The apparent dropping of a pipe from the clouds towards the earth or sea, I will endeavour to explain hereafter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But you object, if water may be thus carried into the clouds, why have we not salt rains? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Small black clouds thus appearing in a clear sky, in hot climates portend storms, and warn seamen to hand their sails. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Five o'clock struck, and time stole on; still the clouds streamed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The sun had bathed in gold the western atmosphere, and in the east the clouds caught the radiance, and budded into transient loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was a bright moon, but it was behind the clouds. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was a perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the heavens. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• My dear Rick, said he, the clouds have cleared away, and it is bright now. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the inky east two vast clouds, sailing contrary ways, met; the lightning leapt forth, and the hoarse thunder muttered. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Never to fold the robe o'er secret pain, Never, weighed down by memory's clouds again, To bow thy head! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• To aid the effect, a reflector was employed, and when the rays were directed to the clouds, they had the appearance of a huge comet, the reflector being the nucleus. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Did you watch the clouds come down over the mountains? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So we must leave thee, thou marvel of the world; we must bid farewell to thy clouds, and cold, and scarcity for ever! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is a pile of clouds in the east, it's not fair, and I don't go. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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