A big black cloud went over the sun, and all in a minute the placid waters of the lake were rasped into a pattern like the soles of new rubbersthe trees were bendingcrows cawing excitedly, and the fire, spurred by the wind, went racing through the lake bottom and on its way up the bank toward the open country.

During the long period in which her mental energies were thus misdirected, a cloud of darkness enveloped her spirit.

There was only one heavily shaded lamp burning on the table, and through the little cloud of tobacco smoke she watched him.

Maud would now have left the rock, but, at that moment, a dark body of Indians poured up over the cliffs, crowning it with a menacing cloud of at least fifty armed warriors.

Before a prosperous fishing season a herring-barrel appears in the midst of a storm-cloud; and at a place called Columkille's Strand, a place of marsh and mire, an ancient boat, with St. Columba himself, comes floating in from sea on a moonlight night: a portent of a brave harvesting.

He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.

I caught a momentary glimpse of a square-shouldered man with a close-trimmed auburn beard crouching in the stern, and then the next moment a wave broke right against our bows, drenching all three of us in a cloud of flying spray.

Here and there the level monotony is broken by a solitary hut or a disused fishing hulk, but except for the passing traffic and the cloud of gulls perpetually wheeling and screaming overhead there is little sign of life or movement.

The burst of a thunder cloud may break down a forest of lofty pines, but the slow delving of the mole may undermine a thousand habitations.

War is terrible in itself, and in some of its consequences, but there is a bow on the cloud.

They went back to the drawing-room, and presently the celebrated Señorita da Cordova, who was more accustomed to being the centre of interest than she realised, felt that she was nobody at all, as she sat at her host's elbow watching the game through a cloud of suffocating cigarette smoke.

There was no cloud of dust upon the road for Dorothea to watch.

On her peculiar complexion a blush showed like a roseate cloud in a golden atmosphere.

The pensive mood, that had enveloped them all in a little cloud the preceding evening, was gone in the morning.

[10] The day on which the king and she had been prevented from going to St. Cloud.

St. Cloud, visit of the dauphin and dauphiness to; purchased for the queen.

There we were, sitting or lying on our bedding, which was spread on the floor round the room, the latter divided, like all Chitrali houses, into loose stalls by low partitions, a small fire burning in the centre of the room, from which a thick pillar of smoke rose and hung like a cloud from the roof, through a hole in which part of it escaped.

You have what lawyers call a cloud on the title.

Peter stood in the dust-cloud, wabbly, with roaring head.

Just then he glanced up, looked penetratingly through the dust-cloud, and added, "Why, I b'lieve da' 's Tump now.

To-day he provoked me, and when I am mad it does me good to swear; it's as natural as lightning out of a black cloud.

She eclipseth the light, and in a moment leaves not a cloud in the sky.

His ribbons are of the true complexion of his mind, a kind of painted cloud or gaudy rainbow, that has no colour of itself but what it borrows from reflection.

It means the germination of the crisis, the appearance on the horizon of the cloud

MITCHELL, JAMES LESLIE. Cloud howe, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pseud.