When the enemy began their movement to the rear, they were constrained to hurry the pace of their columns, notwithstanding the cloud of skirmishers which covered their retreat.
But his sensational appearance as co-respondent in a divorce case of a peculiarly unpleasant character in 1885 cast a cloud over his career.
Young employed this method not only to determine the diameters of cloud particles (e.
Nor at the moment did we derive great comfort from the thought that life slips in and out of sheath, like sun-sparks on water, and that of all the cloud of summer midges dancing in the last gleam, not one would be alive to-morrow.
She smiled then, as if the chief cloud on her soul had been the thought of the arrears her illness and death would leave weighing on him with whom she had shared this bed ten years and more.
Above us, white ships of cloudwere sailing rapidly across the dark river of sky on the wind which smelled of change.
However, she observed his mind return and rightly divined he was thinking her silence a trifle ungracious; so she lifted her hand toward a white cloud that rose above the vanished hills and river, saying: "Our common mother waves us farewell.
I have seen from Monterey as many as three at the same time, by day a cloud of smoke, by night a red coal of conflagration in the distance.
And then the first of the two stages swooped upon the Toll House with a roar and in a cloud of dust; and the shock had not yet time to subside, before the second was abreast of it.
She fled under a cloud of words; and when I had made sure that she was purposely eluding me, I dropped the subject in my turn, and let her rattle where she would.
One by one they came, hit the trail out there in a cloud of dust, and were never seen again.
From the edge of the plateau it ran, a streak of silver fringed with glittering rain drops, down and out to the smelter; and when, in the pride of his heart, Billy loosed the brakes the first vibration threw off a cloud of prismatic spray.
Hundreds of feet in mid air, the explosion cloudfloated like a yellow balloon above the stump of a stack, the half-fused bricks of which were scattered over the bench.
From the plaiting of the dark cloud of hair into a thick cable, to the final assumption of filmy white, she remained quiet as a mouse.
A second later the door banged to and stuck, but not before they had caught a glimpse of a huge cloud plume, densely yellow, shooting upward above the smelter.
But he stopped laughing, surprised by the sudden cloud that spread on the man's face.
The dark cloud resting on the prospects of the College in June, 1843, still hung over it the succeeding year, notwithstanding the efforts made to relieve the embarrassment.
The dark cloud of civil war, so long anticipated and dreaded, now appeared with threatening aspect upon the horizon.
We all say: I now see that the cloud is moving; I now see that the snow is falling.
He tried to live in a cloud and, nevertheless, to see clearly--a task not easy to accomplish.
However, the cloud sticks to the shore, so I have come down to write this line to you.
But the thunder-cloud was not entirely disarmed; and it burst in a direction which popular passion in Canada has always been too apt to take, threats of throwing off England and joining the American States.
A blue bandbox set on the same shelf with a yellow one will not look an inch farther off, but a red or orange cloud, in the upper sky, will always appear to be beyond a blue cloud close to us, as it is in reality.
Or, if you feel able to do so, scratch them in with confused quick touches, indicating the general shape of the cloud or mist of twigs round the main branches; but do not take much trouble about them.
The aim of the painter has been to give the intensest expression of repose, together with the enchanted, lulling, monotonous motion of cloud and wave.
His suns never set behind dark mountains without a film of cloud above the mountain's edge.
Thus, vivid orange in an orange is a sign of nearness, for if you put the orange a great way off, its color will not look so bright; but vivid orange in sky is a sign of distance, because you cannot get the color of orange in a cloud near you.
Firmly developed bars ofcloud on the horizon are in general easy enough, and may be drawn with decision.
Only in the southwest the line of cloud hills was erecting itself into an Alpine range.
Surely we can reach it before that cloud overtakes us!
The shadows grew longer and the cloudcastles began to flush rosily, though the sun still rode above the tree tops.
The Alpine range had vanished, and a monstrous pall of gray-black cloud was being slowly drawn upward and across the smiling heaven.
The lightning showed the pall of cloud hanging low, black, and unbroken; but the wind had sunk into an ominous calm.
My young men went out against them, but a cloud came up and Kiwassa hid his face behind it.
A ball of fire shot from the cloud into the sea; it was followed by a crash that seemed to shake the earth.
There isn't a cloud in the sky," said his mistress with calm conviction, looking straight before her at a low, tumbled line of creamy peaks along the horizon.
Not a cloud in the curve of azure, not a shiver of wind down the canon, not a frown in Nature, if we except the lowering shadows from the shoulders of the giants of the range.
He had seen it through three changing seasons, with no human being near him, and only occasionally a shy, wandering elk, or a cloud of wild ducks whirring down the pass, to share his companionship with it.
Within easy range, Trafford swung his gun shoulder-wards to fire, but at that instant a cloud of snow rose up between him and his quarry so that they all were blinded.
Very interesting, Shon," he said, as he rose, puffing hard till his face was in a cloud of smoke.
The earth burns with the quenchless thirst of ages, and in the steel-blue sky scarcely a cloud obstructs the unrelenting triumph of the sun.
At the third shot, instead of the white smoke, there was a prodigious cloud of red dust, in which the whole tomb disappeared.
When thiscloud is pierced, however, an intelligible human transaction remains.
The moonlight broke through a cloud and fell upon him.
Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
She slipped into another posture, reaching for a cigarette, and, setting it afire from the match he offered, exhaled a cloud of smoke and looked dreamily through it at him.
A long while afterward a small cloud floated across the sun; and, in the sudden shadow on the world, doubt sounded its tiny voice, and her ears listened, and the enchantment faded and died away.
Whirling over and over through a cloud of floating feathers, a heavy weight struck the springy earth.
He walked slowly to and fro; the cloud of sorrow that had rested on his brow gradually lifted, and his countenance grew clearer and clearer.
I, however, Frederick Schiller, have never doubted either your genius or yourself; and I have come to tell you this, and dissipate the dark cloud that was forming between two friends.
But Charlotte would not understand that he made these excuses in order to give the dark cloud that hung over them both time to pass away.
Had a cloud appeared, Charlotte's quick eye would have detected and dissipated it before the lovers were aware of its existence.
The meeting of these long-separated friends was hearty and cordial, and yet the keen glance of the ambassador did not fail to detect the cloud which rested on Leuchsenring's countenance.
The cloud has been dissipated; I now see you again, and will rejoice with you as long as we are together.
A cloud gathered on Goethe's brow as the duke left the room.
Schiller shuddered, and a dark cloud gathered on his brow.
But cloudand darkness will be dissipated, and after this, day will dawn again, and the sun will once more shine.
The colour changed from pure white to delicate gray; and again a stormy cloud appeared, dark with rain that would fall somewhere before long.
See how it changes its shape: now there is another cloud coming to it: now they have melted into one.
That cloud looks as if it were made of snow mountains and caves," said Mary.
With trembling fingers did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; A rainy cloud possess'd the earth, And sadly fell our Christmas-eve.
The silver-misted air Shines with mild radiance, as when through a cloud Of semilucent vapor shines the moon.
Miss Creagh, a cloud on her face, was in the opposite chair, caressing Cleopatra.
The dun cloud above had caught the sapphire as though in a mirror.
The day had been one of heavy showers, between which a pale sun came out and gilt the dappled golds and browns of the woods, and set up a rainbow bridge on the rain cloud that had passed over.
Over it leant the dun-coloured cloud which was a part of the grey heavens.
A river winding through the bog showed as a darkly blue ribbon, reflecting the cloud of indigo which hung above the bog.
Drops of glittering dew fell from the golden cloud which shrouded Herè and Zeus.
It was the deep mid-noon: one silvery cloud 90 Had lost his way between the piney sides Of this long glen.
