Use cloud in a sentence
Sentences starting with cloud
- Cloud was not half so spacious. [4]
- Cloud overlooks it, and villas also regard it from other heights. [4]
Sentences ending with cloud
- I looked, not to the northeast whence the banks of cloud had risen, but to the southwest, and it seemed as though a little speck was there against the hurrying film of cloud. [9]
- It is a thing which we ought to be willing to do for any one who is under a cloud. [5]
- If at noon the world is suddenly darkened, you know, without looking up at the sky, that it is overcast by a cloud. [10]
- The bare summit that day was swept by a fierce, cold wind, and lost in an occasional chilling cloud. [4]
- On the farther summit, above Anacapri, a precipice of two thousand feet sheer down to the water on the other side, hangs a light cloud. [4]
- But there they stood, Lempriere's face with a great-eyed gravity looming above his rotund figure like a moon above a purple cloud. [11]
- Indeed, my powers seemed a bit under a cloud. [5]
- Union with it resembles too much the fate of Ixion, who was mated with a cloud. [14]
- The sweep of prospect is vast, and we could see the whole horizon except in the direction of Roan, whose long bulk was enveloped in cloud. [4]
- After the effects of a shower of rain have passed away the surface of the ground crumbles into a thick layer of dust, and occasionally, when the wind is in a particular quarter, it is lifted bodily from the ground in one long opaque cloud. [5]
Short sentences using cloud
- Cloud. [4]
Sentences containing cloud two or more times
- Is this a cloud, that, blown athwart my soul, Wears a false seeming of the pearly stain Where worlds beyond the world their mingling rays Blend in soft white,--a cloud that, born of earth, Would cheat the soul that looks for light from heaven? [6]
More example sentences with the word cloud in them
- Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
- Upon the plains you will see a cloud arising, not in the sky, but from the ground--a billowy surf of drifting snow; then another white billow from the sky will sweep down and meet it, and you are caught between. [11]
- It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
- They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
- I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
- But everything connected with those two is so base and shameful that I will not allow it to cloud this pleasant hour. [10]
- Into this cloud, with all its risks and all its humiliations, Myrtle Hazard is about to enter. [6]
- At last the wind sprang up and a cloud appeared--in the right quarter, too, and just at nightfall. [5]
- Like the astronomer who fixes his gaze and tries to imprint upon his memory some rare star in the firmament which a cloud is threatening to obscure, he now strove to obtain Ledscha's image. [10]
- Away with everything which can cloud her intellect in these decisive days! [10]
- A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
- Nothing can cloud what these brief moments have bestowed. [10]
- He had done what no one else had done--he had pierced the cloud surrounding Carnac: it was a woman. [11]
- Carlyle did not weep, but he scolded; Emerson did not laugh, but in his gravest moments there was a smile waiting for the cloud to pass from his forehead. [6]
- He, John Hodder, was to live under that cloud, to labour under it. [9]
- As chastening, it was good exercise; but when now and again the name of Sainte-Helene rang towards him, a cloud passed over his face; that touched him in a tender corner. [11]
- Somewhere a storm was gathering, but only a small cloud had scattered some raindrops lightly, sprinkling the road and the sappy leaves. [2]
- Her motherly solicitude was aroused, and she tried to get him interested in the talk and win him to a happier frame of mind, but the cloud of sadness remained on his countenance. [5]
- As the day waned, a heavy cloud hid the sun, and so let down the light that the waters were a dark purple. [4]
- But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! [2]
- You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone. [5]
- Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
- As I climbed up to my rooms in Dover Street, I heard merry sounds above, and a cloud of smoke blew out of the door when I opened it. [9]
- A hundred feet up there was a great round hole in the solid rock, and from this hole there came a feeble cloud of smoke! [11]
- It is piled up now, I should say, a thousand feet above the crater, straight into the blue sky,--a pillar of cloud by day. [4]
- The moon was under a cloud at the moment, and he could only observe that the horse and his rider looked like a single dark object, and that they were moving along at an easy pace. [6]
- No one, I trust, wishes to cloud the dreams of youth, or to dispel by excess of light what are called the illusions of hope. [4]
- 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. [11]
- The weather clears, toward dawn, and leaves a brisk pure atmosphere and a sky without a shred of cloud in it--and everything is still, there is not a breath of wind. [5]
- You have brought to me what perhaps could only have come as it did--through fire and cloud and storm. [11]
- Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
- A cloud seemed to cross his face. [11]
- What memories passed through him were too vague to record; but a heavy sigh escaped him, followed, however, by a cloud which gathered on his brow. [11]
- The crests behind them deepened in purple as the saffron faded in the west, and a gossamer cloud of Tyrian dye floated over Holdfast. [9]
- At sight of them Bickersteth's eyes had filled, not with tears, but with a cloud of feeling, so that he went blind. [11]
- The air and the words come floating down (for the words I knew years afterwards): 'Did ye see the white cloud in the glint o' the sun? [11]
- They said that the tree-shaped cloud was the sign of an eruption; but the hotel-keepers here are always predicting that. [4]
- He could see the trees, the kameel-thorn, the blue-gums, the orange and peach trees surrounding it, a clump or cloud of green in the veld. [11]
- The smoke of the torches mingled with the dust stirred by a thousand feet, and the procession moved along, as it were, in a cloud, which also shrouded the multitude that followed. [10]
- The wind died, the sun beat down with a moist and venomous sting, and northeastward above the edge of the bluff a bank of cloud like sulphur smoke was lifted. [9]
- Day by day the storm increased, until from a cloud on the horizon it grew into a soul-shaking tempest. [9]
- In drier places the noble tamarind sent down its grateful cloud of shade. [5]
- The cloud approaching the moon might perhaps darken it, ere the work was completed. [10]
- Beyond the pyramids the mist deepened into a vast deep cloud of blue and purple, which seemed the end to some mystic highway untravelled by the sons of men. [11]
- Between these shores the Long Cloud River ran; now boisterous, now soft, now wallowing away through long channels, washing gorges always dark as though shaded by winter, and valleys always green as favoured by summer. [11]
- When they started, the ice had not yet all left the Ottawa River, and they wound their way through crowding floes, or portaged here and there for miles, the eager sun of spring above with scarcely a cloud to trail behind him. [11]
- If it had, the face of this man who was once so much to her, and whom she had flung into outer darkness, was sufficient to cast a cloud over it. [11]
- It cleared as the face of the sun clears when a cloud drives past and is gone. [11]
- Beyond it rose the cone of ashes, out of which the great cloud of sulphurous smoke rises and rolls night and day now. [4]
- Eight hours passed, the cloud still remained, night came, no one had returned to the Grands Mulets. [5]
- As soon as the cloud passes over the moon and I clear my throat, start off. [10]
- Arrowhead rose slowly, the cloud gone out of his face, and spoke to his people, bidding them wait in peace until food came, and appointing his son chief in his stead until his return. [11]
- At total--or about that--it was like a rich rosy cloud with a tumbled surface framed in the circle and projecting from it--a bulge of strawberry-ice, so to speak. [5]
- Suddenly I divined that the cloud was France! [9]
- Through the cloud that darkened her aspect, now and then a ray would steal forth, which, like the smile of stern and solemn people, was all the more impressive from its contrast with the expression she wore habitually. [6]
- In less than ten seconds that comet was just a blazing cloud of red-hot canvas. [5]
- While you were talking in the study I was looking at you," Natasha began, evidently anxious to disperse the cloud that had come over them. [2]
- Once a dove swept down upon the window-sill, and, peering in, filled one of the pauses in the recital with its deep contralto note, and then fled like a small blue cloud into the wide and--as it seemed--everlasting peace beyond the doorway. [11]
- The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
- Even with the sun doing its best on the eternal cloud of smoke, it is dingy and gloomy enough, and so dirty, after spick-span, shining Paris. [4]
- It was a strange, silent ride through the stinging heat to Les Iles, the brown dust hanging behind us like a cloud, to settle slowly on the wayside shrubbery. [9]
- And the smile stayed when the life of her had fled--fled through the cloud over her eyes, from the tide-beat of her pulse. [11]
- It was a splendid morning; not a cloud dimmed the sky which spread high above desert, mountain, and oasis, like an arched tent of uniform deep-blue silk. [10]
- The ship flew southward under a cloud of sail which needed no attention, no modifying or change of any kind, for days together. [5]
- It was a sort of breath-taking surprise; for we had not supposed there was anything behind that low-hung blanket of sable cloud but level valley. [5]
- Yet there was something--something different, that brought a slight cloud into her eyes. [11]
- He puffed the smoke so that his face was in the cloud, and he said through it: "No, he did not strike. [11]
- They arrived with slow and impressive solemnity; they returned like a cloud driven before the storm, galloping homewards from the burial-ground along the quay, and then thundering and clattering over the bridge of boats. [10]
- Then a cloud slid over the moon, and I 'most cried, I was so glad. [5]
- Anxiety for your sister does not cloud your pleasure alone, but saddens me too. [10]
- On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. [2]
- My last glimpse showed it for one instant, far down the descent, springing high in the air out of a cloud of dust, and then it disappeared. [5]
- And yet I should not like to say that there is not a tender lonesomeness in love that can get comfort out of a night-bird in a cloud, if there be such a thing. [4]
- That was what she wished-- to die by his hand rather than by any other; and something troubled his breast, and a cloud came in his eyes, so that for a moment he could not see. [11]
- Who but myself shall cloud my soul with fear? [6]
- I think I see the little cloud in the horizon, with a silvery lining to it, which may end in a rain of cards tied round with white ribbons. [6]
- He did not see Lassiter, but his glance, drawn irresistibly farther out on the gradual slope, caught sight of a moving cloud of dust. [13]
- The day I saw it, the horse-chestnuts were in bloom; and there was, on the edges, a cloud of pink and white blossoms, that gave a soft and charming appearance to the entire landscape. [4]
- With fear she saw his face cloud over, heard an impatient exclamation pass his lips. [11]
- There was a sad seriousness about her mouth, and a slight cloud, which only he could see, seemed to veil the usually calm, clear and cheerful expression of her eyes. [10]
- The face was rough and weather-beaten, with the deep tan got in the open life of a land of much sun and little cloud, and he had a beard which, untrimmed and growing wild, made him look ten years older than he was. [11]
- Here and there ribbons of smoke curled upward, adding volume to the blue cloud that hung over the tables, which in turn was dissipated in spots by the industrious electric fans. [9]
- Some of our readers may have seen, in India, a cloud of crows pecking a sick vulture to death--no bad type of what happens in that country as often as fortune deserts one who has been great and dreaded. [5]
- Barely had she reached the deep water beyond the sands when her length began to shorten, and the dense cloud of smoke that rose made it plain that she was firing. [9]
- Then came some priests, who carried a box with the sacred evergreen tree of Amon; and when a fresh outburst of music fell on her ear, and a cloud of incense was wafted up to her, Bent-Anat said: "Now my father should be coming. [10]
- Too often they pine in a secret discontent, which spreads its leaden cloud over the morning of their youth. [6]
- They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. [5]
- It disturbed the peaceful simplicity of the village, and it was likely to cloud her pleasure in Philip's visit. [4]
- A cloud suddenly passed over him, darkened his eyes, made his bones like water. [11]
- It was her own eyes that refused to see the cloud, which the sage and bereaved woman had seen and conveyed in images and figures of speech natural to the Indian mind. [11]
- A cloud came over his face, but he said nothing. [11]
- Whatever cruel suspicion or nameless dread this was, Laura tried bravely to put it away, and not let it cloud her happiness. [5]
- For an hour or more we rowed down the river towards the Long Cloud, and then drew into the shade of a little island for lunch. [11]
- His mouth was open, and a little white cloud of frosted breath came out. [11]
- As we moved on, our numbers increased steadily, and the hurrahing continued--yes, we moved through a solid cloud of noise, as you may say, and all the windows on both sides contributed to it, for they were filled with excited people. [5]
- As it swept on with its cloud of frost, bearing down the dry twigs and boughs and withered leaves, and carrying them away pell-mell, it seemed as though some general sympathy had got abroad, and everything was in a hurry, like themselves. [12]
- He presently landed on top of the unexploded boilers, forty feet below the former pilot-house, accompanied by his wheel and a rain of other stuff, and enveloped in a cloud of scalding steam. [5]
- His chin dropped on his breast, and a cloud like a fog on the coast of Gaspe settled round him. [11]
- A little cloud of tobacco smoke came curling out of a window of the Residency. [11]
- On the day of the sensation, in the fiery cloud of which Sally disappeared, Appleton delivered himself of his mind in the matter at a reception given by the President. [11]
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