Dick looked back, and he saw once more that vast billowing cloud of dust made by the marching army.
October, even, did not seem able to break that singular heat, and the dust was soonbillowing about them in columns, stinging and burning them.
If he did not, the roasting flame and the masses of billowing smoke would render the inner cave untenable.
A swirl of the air currents within the cave sent a thick billowing mass full on the spot where Jack crouched.
The mighty sound Rolled, billowing round the kneeling aisles, then died, Echoing up the heights.
When we were lunching on the balcony of the Winstons' private sitting-room at the Sonnenberg, with mountains billowinground and below us, I saw that there was something on Molly's mind for she was distraite.
Then a fringe of trees netted across a blue, distant sea of billowing hills, and a few minutes later we were sailing under Guildford's suspended clock.
He made short work of preparation, slipped in between the fine cool linen sheets, and laid his brown head upon the soft billowing pillows, impatient neither to think nor feel any more but simply to sleep.
Damaris straightened the hem of the sheet over the billowing edge of flowered down quilt; and, while so doing, her hand came in contact both with the mirror and the open jewel-case.
The road turned, skirting a pond, the Drengstwo See, beyond it a grove of pines above which shrapnel was breaking in beautiful billowing clouds.
Now to get the ladies on their camels, after which we men would vault upon our animals, and wind away among billowing dunes full of shadowy ripples and high lights, like cream-coloured velvet!
We were at the end of the shadowy road that leads like a causeway to the desert, and on the verge of the golden, billowing sea which flows round the Pyramids and engulfs the distant Sphinx.
Above, billowing back from the rim, is a great golden-brown land of wheat fields, with a marvelous mountain westerly skyline.
Billowing over these wild summits and hiding them each in turn, were wondrously tinted cloud banks, whose overhanging effects of light and shadow, and freakish alteration of the view made of the broad panorama a titanic kaleidoscope.
The air grew dense and choking with the billowing clouds of smoke that curled and drifted about the trench, thickened and darkened until the men could hardly see a dozen yards from them.
The interior of the cabin had now grown even dimmer--to a dark redness--and the smoke came billowing in at the window almost stifling her with its acrid fumes.
A dim, shifting veil of dust hung over everything, billowing up into thick clouds under the churning hoofs and wheels as the teams moved in and out, settling slowly and hanging heavily as they halted and stood.
Before the spurting smoke came billowing up out of the trench, Teddy Silsey leaped to his feet with a scream, and flung himself scrambling up the trench wall.
And as the dawn grew, the light and airy feeling within her grew with it, till she seemed to be floating in the air and among soft, billowing clouds.
From the ceiling they fell in soft, billowing waves stirred by the breezes from the open windows.
An explosion followed that rocked the earth and sent a great billowing cloud of smoke and dust high over the treetops into the skies.
It seemed a part of the leaping flames and red billowing smoke of the burning city behind them.
The sun had broken the clouds intobillowing banks of snow-white against the dazzling azure of the skies.
The aged farmers too, with hanging arms, Their faces daubed with dregs of wine and beer, Stagger with zigzag feet towards their farms Islanded in the billowing seas of wheat.
The legendary marble where they stand Rises on history's threshold, and their hand Wrathfully sways the billowing days to be.
But Danny was puzzled by the gray-white whirls that rose through the billowing smoke, until he knew it for the dust of powdered masonry, and realized that below him, where great buildings had been, were tumbled ruins.
But, where it had been at first a thin mark of black, it changed now to billowing gray.
Even under the stars which crusted a moonless sky, the vast stretches of billowing sand glimmered faintly golden as a phosphorescent sea.
Elinor, helped by Miss Jinny, shed her wrappings and stood revealed as a lovely Princess of China, with billowing draperies and flashing glass jewels and a tiny filet sparking on her dark hair.
I shall certainly bring the matter to their notice before the next meeting," and with a cordial shake of Elinor's hand she sailed out, with her black cloak billowing behind her and her plume quivering with suppressed indignation.
It shimmered on the sea of waving hills and billowing mountains that opened out before us, as if sprinkling a glitter of sequins over the vivid green and amber and purple.
She had never seen the sea; and when the billowing fields and neat hedges changed to chalky downs, a sudden whiff of salt on the air blowing through a half-open window made her heart leap.
Beneath, a peninsula of pines silvered with olives floated on a sea of burnished gold; and above soared mountains that went billowing away to the east and to Italy, deep purple-red in the wine of sunset.
There was a billowing outburst of steam from the tower where Denham had been working the night before.
There was a faint billowingroll of gunfire across the river toward Douaumont, but very faint.
And as we coasted down the hill we heard the guns at last, not steadily, but only from time to time, a distant boom, a faint billowing up of musketry fire.
Riding along beside her, listening to her, forgetful of his complications, his hills billowing toward him, Steering grew intensely happy.
And in its place came green, billowing gas that was coughed and spewed into the air to be caught up in the steady breeze that blew directly from the vent.
Mud, coughed hoarsely from a hot throat, and green, billowing gas!
It would have shattered his human opponent had the man been given an instant more, but against the enemy that rolled down and overwhelmed him in billowing clouds no weapon could prevail.
