The sensation of her motion was as though she was slowly rounding before the wind, and beginning to scud over a surface that had been almost flattened by a hurricane-burst into a dead level of snow.
Ugly rings of vapour, patches and fragments of dirty yellow scud flew past, loose and low under the near grey wet stoop of the sky; they made the only break in that firmament of storm.
At about ten o'clock Charley saw plainly that the danger was very great in continuing to scud before the wind.
Overhead the wild scud flew fast, the stern Cape looked more solitary and grand, and the sea-fowl with discordant shrieks flew round and round, closing in the circles they were forming till they almost touched our masts.
Life of a kind was always present in the scud of rabbits, in the song of larks and click of stonechats, in the dipping steel-blue flight of the wheatear and ruffled chestnut feathers of the whinchat.
Presently, under the scud of shifting clouds, Jenny hurried through the windy shadows of twilight down to the warm theater.
The hollow roar of the wind was like the moaning of a troubled ocean; a few big drops from the hurrying scud seeming to presage an approaching tempest.
Darkness was fast gathering about me; a heavy scud was driven rapidly across the heavens, and the wind wailed in short and mournful gusts past the chamber.
A sudden wind materialized from the north, stiffening the canvas with its ice-laden breath, glazing the schooner wherever moisture dripped, bringing up an angry scud of clouds that fought with the moon.
There seemed a slight chance of the weather clearing at noon, for though the wind was so high, the clouds were whitening under passing gleams of sunlight, and the scud of rain had passed.
The moon was weak, with a big ring round her, and the sky was obscured by the scud which fled swiftly away to the north-west.
Overhead the scud flew fast and furious, and all to windward the horizon was very thick.
I see a light scud creeping up from leeward, behind us, with the waves fringing up into a curl before it.
So it was the next night, there not being the slightest lull, we having to ride it out all the while; but, on the third morning, the gale moderated sufficiently for us to be able to scud before it in the direction of the Cape.
My Indians and I used all our strength and skill toscud on before the wind.
The Nereid tip-toe on the scud o' the surge, With whistling tresses dank athwart her face, And all her figure poised in lithe Circean grace?
Their safety depended on their being able to scud under bare poles, which they did during the whole night; and Dampier and his shipmates averred that they had never been in so violent a storm before.
After laying to for three hours they were compelled to scud before the wind.
Away we would scud with flying sheets dead before it, in a smother of spray, but would hardly get full way on her before it was gone, leaving us in the same hush as before, only a dark patch on the water far to leeward marking its swift rush.
That greasy, filmy haze was again drawn over the clear blue of the sky, and the light scud began to fly overhead at an alarmingly rapid rate.
Vanslyperken quitted the house; the weather had cleared up, the breeze was fresh and piercing, and the stars twinkled every now and then, as the wild scud which flew across the heavens admitted them to view.
Scud along--that’s the only chance until the wind slackens.
And scud they did, their speed being increased by the power of the wind.
Courtenay, standing in the shelter of the chart-house, was peering through the flyingscud to leeward.
None realized better than the young commander what a disastrous fate awaited his ship in the gloom of the flying scud ahead.
Thrones are bobbins in His shuttle; Armies make them scud and scuttle.
As the Weaver makes His shuttle Hither, thither, scud and scuttle.
As the weaver makes his shuttle, Hither, thither, scud and scuttle.
An answering salute goes booming back, rockets scud up into the clouds; and Commodore Foote, with a heart too full for talking, goes down into his cabin to be alone.
In the half-light it was difficult to discern just what support was given to the squat rectangle of the chart-house; Maseden had to look long and steadily through the flying scud before he gathered the exact facts.
But in the winter, when the wind came howling through the groaning trees, and drove the grey scud across an ashy sky, when the birds were dumb, and there were no cattle on the sodden lawn, its isolated melancholy was a palpable thing.
Dawn stole in with whimper of rain And a wailing wind from the sea-- Gray sea, gray dawn and scurrying clouds And scud of rain.
Ah, nights of flying scud and rout When scared the slim young moon rides out In her lagoon of open sky, Or older, marks your revelry As calm and large she oars above Your drifting lives of ruth or love.
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