Grand cumuli clouds piled themselves higher and higher above the lightning-riven mass of rain-sodden blackness below.
Hills twenty miles away rise in a purple mass under the shadow of the clouds above.
The clouds that had mingled all night with the waves had now fallen so low that they overspread the sea like a mantle, and completely shut out the horizon.
A few clouds hung low near the surface of the sea and covered it with vapor.
This darkness might possibly last for quite a long time, as it was caused mostly by the clouds that hung high in the air, thick and dense, looking like a solid vault.
The plateau on the other side of the tower caught the light and became visible for an instant only, to vanish as the clouds of smoke obscured the flames.
Suddenly, between twoclouds of smoke, a flame burst forth from the bed of dying coals, threw a brilliant light on the summit of the plateau, and revealed the red outlines of a wagon.
I Just as the stage rumbled over the rickety old bridge, creaking and groaning, the sun came from behind the clouds that had frowned all the way, and the passengers cheered up a bit.
A gray mist rolled with the wind, and dull clouds scudded over.
We pushed on up the creek, kicking up clouds of alkali dust as we went.
The clouds were deepening, and the night was coming rapidly.
Vessels that are belching clouds of smoke may be picked up at distances of from three to five miles, but no more.
The sea quiets and up from the depths arise cloudsof oil, spreading slowly over the waves.
For the night has begun to reveal itself, thanks, or rather, no thanks, to the moon, which has torn away from a shrouding mass of clouds and sends its rays down upon the waters of the sea.
At this writing the coastwise marauder, or marauders, are still off our shores, and clouds of navy craft are seeking to destroy them.
Had the war gone on, had the German craft not appeared for battle, a plan to smother their base through the medium of clouds of bombing airplanes would unquestionably have been put into effect at a good and proper time.
Off to starboard the destroyer Nicholson was plunging on her way, throwing cloudsof black smoke across the horizon.
Beyond were a slate-blue sea flecked with white and scurrying clouds tipped with russet and gold by the last beams of a wintry sun.
Perhaps, dreading the weight of public opinion in Pont Aven, or finding life in the village insupportable, she had sought refuge in Quimperle for a while, and would return when present clouds were blown over.
The change in the wind had blown away the clouds brought inland by the first phase of the gale.
Next day the sun was shining pleasantly in the wood, and it came to me that clouds had gone from the face of God, and as I wandered among the trees a squirrel sat on a branch within reach of my hand and did not flee.
No sun is to be seen, and the grey atmosphere casts down the heart, the wind moans and whistles in fitful gusts, the blackclouds hang low in threatening masses, now and again a flake of snow drifts in the wind.
Though, ten minutes before, there was scarcely a breath of air stirring, the gale freshened rapidly and carried along with it clouds of dust and stubble.
The weird waste, which stretches to the horizon, may represent well the lonely wilds of Haworth, overshadowed by the clouds of approaching night, and interspersed with streaks of fading day, among which the crescent moon appears.
I never was exactly careless of these matters, but I have always taken a clouded and repulsive view of them; and now, if possible, the clouds are gathering darker, and a more oppressive despondency weighs on my spirits.
How happens it that clouds and rain are formed in the higher regions of the air, and not closely round about us?
Her countenance as she sits at work exhibits the strongest evidence of an active mind and a feeling heart, and thoughts and feelings seem to flit across it like the clouds in a summer sky.
That the mighty power which uproots trees and drives the storm-clouds across the sky should resemble a human soul is to the savage an unavoidable inference.
The clouds also come and go, and burst in water over the earth.
Looks like a thunderstorm," he said, squinting at the sky, where dark clouds were rapidly rising.
Just darkness and cold and a sky of clouds and wet.
Impressions crowd upon one another and overlap one another; I was presently to fall in love again, to be seized by a passion to which I still faintly respond, a passion that still clouds my mind.
We became clouds of inexpressible feeling towards one another; we could think of nothing that was not too momentous for words.
We mounted at a forty degree angle, slowly circling, with a bank of clouds over us to the side and the shining little sea beneath.
Clouds were overhead, white masses with blue sky behind them.
Black clouds rapidly obscured the heavens, and the sound of thunder increased.
In that event the airship could remain suspended far above the clouds if necessary.
On the plain of Cholula this edifice was staked out, four sided, in girth like some great hill, in height planned to pierce the very clouds aloft.
Still they bided their time, and the pyramid of Xelhua crept upwards till the low-hanging clouds often lay far beneath its upper courses.
So suddenly did the storm-clouds overspread the heavens that it seemed as if night had tumbled headlong upon the quaking fleet.
Great clouds of it went floating up the stairs, filling the hotel lobby and making everybody sneeze.
The strong wind, blowing up from the sea, had cleared the mist above his head and was chasing the clouds along the sky.
Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
Up, up to the clouds where their hoary Crowned heads melt away in the skies, The beautiful mountains of glory Each side of the song-ocean rise.
The clouds made day a gorgeous bed; He saw the splendour of the sky With unmoved heart and stolid eye; He only knew the West was red.
On the north the valley narrowed to a canyon, its granite sides muffled in clouds of soft green spruce.
The peaks beyond were misty behind gray clouds that lay sullenly along the horizon.
Above these they could see a range of sharp-peaked mountains that still caught the sunlight, some crystal white with snow, others muffled byclouds turned to iris-hued scarfs of filmiest gauze.
It clouds up every few days, and the old man hopefully gets his speech ready--'Curse ye, ye are no longer a daughter of mine!
The windows were beautifully adorned with curtains made of the many-colored clouds of sunrise, all imbued with virgin light, and hanging in magnificent festoons from the ceiling to the floor.
Its strong foundations and massive walls were quarried out of a ledge of heavy and sombre clouds which had hung brooding over the earth, apparently as dense and ponderous as its own granite, throughout a whole autumnal day.
And slowly it changes into the sadness of the autumn, the sere leaves are falling around the player, heavy cloudshang low over his head.
Whenever the theater introduces an imagined setting and the stage clouds sink over the sleeper and the angels fill the stage, the beauty of the verses must excuse the shortcomings of the visual appeal.
It stood on the side of Mount Parnassos, whose snow-covered head reaches into the clouds and looks down into the blue Gulf of Corinth below it to the south.
But Hera sent gadflies to make the cattle wilder than they were before, and they scattered over the mountain-heights as clouds are scattered by a hot wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clouds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
