Above this headland lay a dark pall of vapour.

The great velocity of the boat added to the charm of the passage, the scene scarce finding time to pall on the eye; for, no sooner was one object examined in its outlines, than it was succeeded by another.

In the clear morning air, the smoke of the guns curled up lazily and hung like a funeral pall over the mangled, bleeding form.

But she could smell the presence of it in the thick air, and could feel the forked flashes of lightning that rolled up with the dense pall from the south and west.

William, therefore, pretending that the primate had obtained his pall in an irregular manner from Pope Benedict IX., who was himself an usurper, refused to be consecrated by him, and conferred this honour on Aldred, Archbishop of York.

We had nothing to eat all day except ginger snaps, and they pall after a time, especially in a dry and dusty land where no water is.

Smoke and the fumes of gasolene hung like a pall above it.

Two of us ventured below and discovered the chapter, all robed in purple, sitting round a pall with a presumable coffin underneath.

Now, no flower grew in Eden, and the driving snow kept falling to form a pall for earth's untimely funeral after the fall of man.

As I left the church a funeral procession approached, women carrying palls by the four corners a little in front of the coffin, according to the custom of the country when the dead person is of their own sex.

A pall of gloom encompassed hima pall without one rift of light.

The wavering sable line of its tree-tops spread a pall across the starless horizon.

Bolt after bolt of vivid lightning ripped and tore across the darkened sky, which hung like a pall behind the terrific electrical display.

A pale glow on the rim of the rolling hills across the valley, herald of the moon not yet above the horizon, intensified the pall beneath the approaching cloud.

XI. Swiftly rose they, and the corse surrounded, Spreading out a pall into the air; And the sharp and sudden crackling sounded Mournfully to all the watchers there.

Cannon thundered at Ellison's Mills; shells rained hard on Gaines's Farm; a thousand simultaneous volleys of musketry mingled with the awful uproar of the cannon; uninterrupted sheets of light from the shells brightened the smoke pall like the continuous flare of electricity against a thundercloud.

More often they have left a pall than a light in the heavens, for the most brilliant lives in Irish history have led to the most tragic deaths.

But to Harry, who had been just upon the point of asking for his father, it was as the dark funeral pall to his soul, and he staggered to a chair.

It seemed to hang like a pall about the great dim building massed against the sky, as though the whole place lay beneath a spell of mourning.