392 adjectives to describe clouds

As I walked, little clouds of the stuff rose up from under my footsteps, and assailed my nostrils, with a dry, bitter odor that made me wheeze, huskily.

Rosa broke from the thick cloud of smoke as a fifth report rang out, and a scream of death went up between the bed and the door where Jack stood.

The rapidity with which this speck grew into a dense cloud, and spread itself in darkness over the heavens, as well as the increasing swell of the ocean before we felt the wind, soon convinced us he was right.

A few light clouds flittered Northward, and vanished.

The fire burned lower; the wind in the tree-tops died away; and the thick gray clouds rolled like a massive curtain from under the skies.

But this time the ill-starred dancing-skirt and bells had been locked away; and in their stead we saw the silken jacket, the spangled pale-blue sari, covered by a diaphanous black veil, like a thin cloud half-veiling the summer heavens, the necklace of pearls round the olive pillar of her throat, and above them the calm face and the wealth of dark hair that scorned all artificial adornment.

THE SANDMAN The rosy clouds float overhead, The sun is going down, And now the sandman's gentle tread Comes stealing through the town.

The golden clouds enwrapt us still, cates and dainties tempted us as of old, the most bewitching strains detained us spellbound.

A vast cloud of dirt and stones and grass spouted up, and when the debris cleared away a great hole showed.

The sun, a glowing ball of copper, hung low in the west over a rampart of purple clouds, whose heights were smeared with red.

"The volcano is active," was his only comment, but it explained the ragged cloud.

And I thought that dull, persistent cloud wavered and broke for an instant, and that I saw behind a glimpse of that blue which is heaven when we are on the earththe blue skywhich is nowhere to be seen but in the mortal life; which is heaven enough, which is delight enough, for those who can look up to it, and feel themselves in the land of hope.

No cloud in the hot sky, except the yellow clouds of dust!

Only one outsider was invited to attendnamely, "Rats," whose cheery presence it was thought would tend to enliven the proceedings, and chase away the gloomy clouds of regret which would naturally hang over the near prospect of parting.

The tops of the waves tossed against leaden cloud and he could hardly see the rocks for which he steered.

There is little doubt that they had some misunderstanding when travelling together, but it was a passing cloud.

Belts miles in extent are thus killed and left standing with the branches on, peeled and rigid, appearing gray in the distance, like misty clouds.

Blest he the man that taught the poor to pray, That shed on adverse fate religion's day, That wash'd the clotted tear from sorrow's face, Recall'd the rambler to the heavenly race, Dispell'd the murky clouds of discontent, And read the lore of patience wheresoe'er he went.

Looking up, he saw stars through the thin, broken clouds of smoke.

" They spurr'd along until the sun sank low, And by the way arose the lonely tree, Mere sat the Dervise, rheumy-eyed and old Blood-red the western skythe clouds back waved,

The peaks marshaled along the summit were in shadow, but through every notch and pass streamed vivid sun-fire, soothing and irradiating their rough, black angles, while companies of small, luminous clouds hovered above them like very angels of light.

The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I. Above our heads the sullen clouds Scud black and swift across the sky; Like silent ghosts in misty shrouds Stand out the white lighthouses high.

It is, as when A sable cloud Turns forth her silver lining on the night.

When the streamers are particularly vivid, a pink cloud is seen below them, and this is called "the pool of blood."

Swifter and vaster, following close upon the flying shadow, came the mighty cloud, changing from black to slaty grey; and then, as the sun broke forth again under its lower edge, it was all flushed with a brilliant rose colour.

392 adjectives to describe  clouds