The cumuli around and near the sun himself could not be gazed upon, until, as the day declined, they gradually lost their effulgence and became tolerable to the eyes.
Round the horizon it was of steely brilliancy, while reddish cumuli and cirri floated southwards.
The cumuli resembled mountains in shape, and their peaked summits shone as white as Alpine snows.
A few distant cumuli sailed near the horizon, but the zenith and a vast angular space all round it were absolutely free from cloud.
The weather had cleared up, whitecumuli only sailed across the blue aerial ocean.
On the 17th, the rain clouds cleared away, the sun shone out, and only a few fleecy cumulisailed across the blue sky, driven by the north-east trade wind.
Ruby mountains and flecks of white cumuli and calm water, an effect in much too high a key for me to attempt; and I did a Punghis' bathing pool, in lower tones, a more getatable effect for my brush.
The sun came up splendidly, hot and yellow over China, and warmed me comfortably as I drove to the Fort, and the mist off the plain rose and became sunlit cumuli to lie for the rest of the day on the shoulders of the Kachin Highlands.
Mornings fine, with heavy cumuli in the south-west and west, which gradually spread, and became dark flashing thunder-clouds.
The winds were now south-westerly, very strong, with bright fierce sun, but cumuli lying on the higher peaks after 4 p.
About noon, as usual, big bossy cumuli began to grow above the forest, and the rainstorm pouring from them is the most imposing I have yet seen.
Heard a few peals of thunder from the upper Sierra, and saw firm white bossy cumulirising back of the pines.
Besides the periodical shower-bearing cumuli there is a thin, diffused, fog-like cloud overhead.
Glorious pearly cumuli tinted with purple of ineffable fineness of tone.
Pearl cumuli over the higher mountains--clouds, not with a silver lining, but all silver.
Above these and a little back of them was a series of upboiling purple clouds, and high above all, in the background, a range of noble cumuli towered aloft like snow-laden mountains, their pure pearl bosses flooded with sunshine.
Upon its trembling roof the piles of oats, thrown by the men on the stack alongside, showed a pure golden; above the sky was dazzlingly blue, and in it the white cumuli rode brilliantly.
Stately masses of white cumuli wheeled round that gulf of glaciers, partially dissipating in an occasional snow-storm, but on the whole gradually accumulating.
Heavy cumuli drifting sluggishly athwart the sky, now and then drew curtain-like over her disk, making the earth dark as Erebus.
Night had descended, but in addition to its natural darkness, the white fleecy cumuli along the western horizon had turned black at the setting of the sun; then rolled upward, overspreading heaven's whole canopy as with a pall.
But often before noon, the milky stratus condensation above with cumuli below, will appear in the trade; the N.
If there be a partial tendency to condensation in it, the cumuli form under the magnetic influence excited by the sunbeams from ten to three o'clock in the day, and float gently away to the eastward, disappearing before night-fall.
I have watched the cumuli at such periods when they filled the air, and can assert that they never rise.
On the posterior or dry side of the gale, it often disappears before the arrival of the newly condensed cumuli and cumulo-stratus which not unfrequently float in the colder winds, on this side of the gale.
The sun went down behind banks, or rather cumuliof pink and lilac clouds.
Bright, gauzy clouds, float along lazily before it, and sometimes the most charming cumuli are piled up on the western horizon while the sun is going down.
This ascending column of atmosphere, when it reaches a certain point, is condensed into cumuli of beautiful, fleecy clouds, often piled up in the most fantastic and gorgeous shapes.
There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
The formation of large cumuli to leeward, in a strong wind, indicates the approach of a calm with rain.
The finest examples occur between the first appearance of the fleecy cumuli and the commencement of rain, while the lower atmosphere is comparatively dry, and during the approach of thunder storms.
Forster mentions an instance of some detached cirro-cumuli being of a fine golden yellow, but in a single minute becoming deep red.
Stormy cumuli swept round the mountains, between which, however, the illuminated ridges seemed to swim in the opalescent air.
Grandly the vast cumuli build themselves in the atmosphere, hanging at times lazily over the mountains and mottling with their shadows the brown sides of the hills.
On other days the cumuli seem whipped into dust, and scattered through the general air, mixing therewith as the smoke of London mingles with the supernatant atmosphere.
The forenoon was very clear; cumuli and cirrho-cumuli gathered during the afternoon.
Thick cumuli came from the northward during the afternoon, but disappeared towards sunset.
Cumuli passed from the north-east during the morning: the afternoon was clear, and the night bright.
A cold easterly wind continued during the day; low rainy clouds in the morning formed into heavy cumuli during the afternoon.
Cumuli passed from the same quarters; and generally gathered during the afternoon, and became very heavy.
The day had been exceedingly hot; but the passing shadows of cumuli which formed in the afternoon, occasionally afforded us a delightful relief.
Cumuli formed very early in the morning, and increased during the day, sending down showers of rain all round the horizon.
The wind for the last few days has been westerly; cumuli forming during the day, dissolved towards sunset; the days were very hot, the nights mild and dry.
Cumuli formed here regularly during the afternoon, with the setting in of the north-west sea breeze, but dispersed at sunset, and during the first part of the night.
Wind prevailed from the northward: the forenoon was cloudless; heavy cumuli in the afternoon.
The first two hours of the day were cloudy, but it cleared up and became very hot; the atmosphere was hazy and sultry; cumuli with undefined outlines all round the horizon: wind from south-west and south.
A strong easterly wind was blowing during the day, and no cumuli formed.
In from six to twelve hours from the time of the meridian passage, in this latitude, the Big Cumuli have formed, and commenced their march eastward.
These are caused by the tops of the great cumuli of the storm, when sunk below the horizon, intercepting the sun's rays, which still shine on the upper atmosphere.
The unbroken stretch of sward southward is in most vivid spring green; there is a gleam of blue water beyond the tender purple of a distant forest, overhung by the fleecy cumuli of a perfect but constantly changing sky.
Our memory of these is of beautiful sheets of water, surrounded by the green of mid-June, and over-arched by the blue sky and the fleecy cumuli of a perfect summer day.
They have all the colors of the ocean, wave beyond wave, surge beyond surge, till they blend in with the sky, or hide their most distant outlines in the cumuli bounding the horizon.
The sun was sinking behind the white cumuli that capped this mountain.
Fine, calm, warm weather may be expected when cumuliare of moderate size and of pleasing form and colour.
Increased heat may be expected when cirro-cumuli appear.
Warm wet weather, and a thaw, may be expected when cirro-cumuli occur in winter.
Cold, tempestuous, rainy weather may be expected when cumuli cover the sky, rolling over each other in dense, dark, and abrupt masses.
Rain may be expected when cumuli increase in number towards evening, sinking at the same time into the lower portions of the air.
A storm or thunder may be expected when cirro-cumuli occur mingled with cumulo-stratus in very dense, round, and close masses.
Thunder may be expected when cumuli of hemispherical form are characterized by an extreme silvery whiteness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cumuli" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
