Overhead, there moved, with a heavy, everlasting rolling, a vast, seamless sky of grey cloudsa cloud-sky that would have seemed motionless, through all the length of an ordinary earth-day.

As the night advanced the mighty rock walls of my mountain mansion seemed to come nearer, while the starry sky in glorious brightness stretched across like a ceiling from wall to wall, and fitted closely down into all the spiky irregularities of the summits.

The glory of its livid light was so tremendous, that it appeared to fill the sky with quivering flames.

" Evening was closing in with a greenish-yellow sunset, and a big full moon pushing up to whiten the sky above it.

The smallest and most perfectly individualized specimens present a richly modeled cumulous cloud rising above the dark woods, about 11 A.M., swelling with a visible motion straight up into the calm, sunny sky to a height of 12,000 to 14,000 feet above the sea, its white, pearly bosses relieved by gray and pale purple shadows in the hollows, and showing outlines as keenly defined as those of the glacier-polished domes.

And when he was watching them they were watching him, and after he had fallen asleep they continued moving round and round in the sky for hours, and seeing him lying so still on the plain

'Mother,' said a little child of four or five years of age, one evening when the summer air was warm, and the skies were bright above, as she sat beside her mother, on a bench beneath the spreading branches of the tall old elms in front of the house; 'mother, what makes the stars come out, only after the dark has come down, and why don't the moon go up into the sky like the sun in the day time?'

And, as the days sped, each one quicker than the last, the sun began to assume the appearance of a vast, flaming comet flaring across the sky at short, periodic intervals.

The Boy caught a glimpse of the sky over Mac's shoulder.

'That's the one,' said Edith, taking out one of a deep blue colour, like an Italian sky on a coloured picture post-card.

The lateral quiver of the sun-stream, had grown so swift as to cause the dancing semi-circle of flame to merge into, and disappear in, a sheet of fire that covered half the Southern sky from East to West.

There was a rift in the sombre roofing of clouds; she saw a strip of clean blue sky through which a splendid sun shone.

While thus flying through the air, a small portion makes good its escape, and remains in the sky as vapor.

These hard, blue skies without a cloud in them, this everlasting sunshinehow I loathe it!"

Good work and happy work for the merry mountain raindrops, each one of them a brave fall in itself, rushing from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds into the cliffs and hollows of the mountains; away from the thunder of the sky into the thunder of the roaring rivers.

The sun shone all day long from a cold, cloudless sky upon a waste of flashing snow, with here and there trees sticking out of it, and strange red morning lights in the sky behind it, and sweeping winds across it, and in the sunset the white hillsides slowly changed to a mauve pink.

Out West, the west of the mesas and the unpatented hills, there is more sky than any place in the world.

"We have looked at houses until we are fairly distracted, Aunt Marthe and I. One had a cellar kitchen, and I am not going to have my good Dyce buried in a cellar kitchen; and one had no bathroom, and another was all stairs; and they are all nothing but brick and mortar with a scrap of sky between.

Autumn came, that finest of all seasons about San Francisco Bay, the ocean fogs were thrust back, unveiling the clear sunny skies by day, the crystalline glitter of stars by night.

Profound darkness now possessed the room, immaterially modified by the light-struck sky beyond the windows.

"Which way's the hoss?" he gasped when the dark rail of the corral fretted the sky before them.

When I drew out the folds of her veil, it was with no little amazement that she saw the sky around her, the sea and the city far below.

Peach bloomliquid dawnripe cherryoil greengreen of powdered teablue of the sky after rainwhat names for color!

He was conscious of but one fact in all the world; about it everything else turned and spun as sweep the bodies of the sky about the sun.

"About ten o'clock in the morning of the 25th August 1867, I was lying towards the southern end of the island, on a little hillock tolerably clear of trees, and facing a sort of glade or avenue, covered only with brush and young trees, which allowed me to see the sky within perhaps twenty degrees of the horizon.