Use clouds in a sentence
Sentences starting with clouds
- Clouds scudded across the sky and their shadows sailed darkly down the sunny slope. [13]
- Clouds filled the sky, and Joshway, whose pallet was under the sill, was in a blessed state of moisture. [9]
- Clouds had indeed rested on Bremerton's crests, but beneficent clouds, always scattered by the sun. [9]
- Clouds were lowering over the city, and big drops falling, as Stephen threaded his way homeward, the damp anal gloom of the weather in his very soul. [9]
- Clouds gathered and drops of rain began to fall on the dead and wounded, on the frightened, exhausted, and hesitating men, as if to say: "Enough, men! [2]
- Clouds of smoke came out of his face and floated down the wind. [9]
Sentences ending with clouds
- There it stands, with its head in the clouds! [5]
- A soft south wind was blowing, eating away the remaining patches of snow; the sky was full of fleecy clouds. [4]
- Your eyes are wet, and the drops here on your hands have not fallen from the clouds. [10]
- A few stars were shining, but the general heavens were overcast, and the great shaft of the Matterhorn was draped in a cable pall of clouds. [5]
- Among his hearers was Mr. Lowell, who says of it that "every word seemed to have just dropped down to him from the clouds. [6]
- It required keen vision to see any movement whatever in the purple clouds. [13]
- The sound was very distinct here as also were the flashes of the guns up the clouds. [7]
- No painter then undertook to depict giant mountains with eternal snow upon summits which towered above the clouds. [10]
- But their light, too, was dim, and veiled as it were with clouds. [10]
- He then retired to his lonely grandeur and we climbed on up among the bristling peaks and the ragged clouds. [5]
Sentences containing clouds two or more times
- These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
- Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds. [2]
More example sentences with the word clouds in them
- If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
- When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
- And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
- Oh, tell me, ye strong spirits, or ye dark and fleeting clouds, that I yet have a friend. [5]
- After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
- We mingled companionably with the great folk who flocked to the big house to make Joan's acquaintance, and they made much of us and we lived in the clouds, so to speak. [5]
- By the street windows sat the Honourable Brush Bascom, sphinx-like, absorbing wisdom and clouds of cigar smoke which emanated from the Honourable Nat Billings. [9]
- While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
- With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
- Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
- The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
- A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
- By some odd whim of the weather the wind had backed around into the east, gathering the clouds once more. [9]
- The north-east wind which rose towards morning had floated them away, and Zeus, devourer of the clouds, had swallowed them up to the very last. [10]
- Through the storm, which lashed her face with whirling clouds of dust and drops of rain, Barbara reached the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
- The poor medicaments which Angelique brings avail not; these soothing hands and healing tones, they pass through clouds of the middle place between heaven and earth to Antoine. [11]
- Meanwhile dark clouds were spreading slowly over the bright-blue vault of the June sky. [10]
- Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
- She and Sally were in the clouds that evening. [5]
- As the days went on and spring began to appear in the light, fleeting clouds in the blue sky and in the greening foliage in the city squares, Philip became more and more restless. [4]
- The excursionists by-and-by went away out of the clouds, gliding breathlessly down the rails. [4]
- On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
- In the clouds we were passing over Clingman, Gibbs, and Holdback. [4]
- The next morning we wandered back up the green valley, leisurely, with the curving walls of those bare and stupendous precipices rising into the clouds before us. [5]
- Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
- Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. [2]
- A crescent moon was struggling through floes of fleecy clouds, the stars were shining, and so the road was not entirely dark. [11]
- But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
- Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it. [2]
- He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. [2]
- In the midst was a silver table-ornament, something similar to an altar, from which arose fragrant clouds of incense. [10]
- In the room was a hot stove, which was more attractive than the cold clouds, but unable to compete in interest with the register. [4]
- Barbara preferred to walk beside hers, for clouds had darkened the sky; it had become oppressively sultry, and she felt as if she would stifle in the close, swaying box. [10]
- Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts. [2]
- At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
- Nature was so vast; she was so insignificant; changes in its motionless inorganic life were imperceptible save through the telescopes of years; but she, like the wind, the water, and the clouds, was variable, inconstant. [11]
- Laura pursued her usual course: she encouraged Mr. Buckstone by turns, and by turns she harassed him; she exalted him to the clouds at one time, and at another she dragged him down again. [5]
- The sun was up, and the clouds were being chased, like miscreants who have played their prank, and were now running for it. [9]
- We had barely twenty minutes for our observations, when it was time to go; and had scarcely left the peak when the clouds enveloped it. [4]
- Even now the truer spiritual goal is glimpsed through the battle clouds, and has been hailed in world-reverberating phrases by our American President. [9]
- Even as Janet trudged homeward on that Memorial Day afternoon from her Cinderella-like adventure in Silliston the sun grew hot, the air lost its tonic, becoming moist and tepid, white clouds with dark edges were piled up in the western sky. [9]
- The fantastic clouds, torn and streaming, hurried up from the south in haste as if to a witch's rendezvous, hiding and disclosing the great summit in their flight. [4]
- We were none too soon, for already the clouds were preparing for what appears to be a daily storm at this season. [4]
- At length Big Tom separated himself from his companions and took a course in accordance with his notion of that which would be pursued by a man lost in the clouds or the darkness. [4]
- Presently Orion seemed to rise out of the clouds, as a diver comes up from the water, and make for the shore of the island on which George and the other two seemed to be standing. [10]
- The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
- And it seemed to him that even the sun, which had been shining brilliantly a few minutes before in a cloudless sky, had disappeared behind clouds, for a strange twilight, unlike anything he had ever seen, surrounded him. [10]
- When you want to go visiting, or attend church, or the theatre, you never look up at the clouds to see whether it is likely to rain or not--you look at the almanac. [5]
- He was given to flights of oratory that way--a very dangerous thing, for often the wings which take one into clouds of oratorical enthusiasm are wax and melt up there, and down you come. [5]
- He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
- I say, appeared to be; for we stood in thick fog or in the heart of clouds which limited our dim view to a radius of twenty feet. [4]
- The town appears to be perfectly quiet at present, as though the late stormy times had cleared our moral atmosphere; but who can tell in what quarter clouds are lowering or plots ripening? [5]
- However, we had to be content with it and make the best of it; for, all we could do we could not coax our landscape down out of the clouds. [5]
- You would have to appear among clouds behind a transparent veil, and the people would hail you with acclamations or even raise their hands in adoration. [10]
- Our midnight is thy smile withdrawn; Our noontide is thy gracious dawn; Our rainbow arch thy mercy's sign; All, save the clouds of sin, are thine! [6]
- Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. [9]
- Now and then through the parted clouds we got a glimpse of a mountain-side, or the gleam of a valley. [4]
- We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
- Oh, maternal love, thou dost hover in radiant bliss far above the clouds, and amid choirs of angels! [10]
- The clouds by this time seemed to have done their worst, for a lovely day succeeded, which we determined to devote to an ascent of the Faulhorn. [5]
- There are few things in Holland I like better than our clouds. [10]
- Not snow-clad mountains, these, yet they climbed high enough toward the sky to meet the clouds and veil their foreheads in them. [5]
- As we sat there, awed a little by this presence, the clouds were gathering from various quarters and drifting towards us. [4]
- The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. [5]
- Only now and then did the thought of Caesar trouble for a moment the rapture of that hour, like a hideous form appearing out of distant clouds. [10]
- When he saw the wonderful youth dash by, Ulrich marvelled that his steed did not put forth wings and soar away with him into the clouds. [10]
- After a while the weather grew milder, and the clouds lifted somewhat. [5]
- The public-houses by the wayside, from being empty and noiseless as those in the remoter parts had been, now sent out boisterous shouts and clouds of smoke; and, from the misty windows, clusters of broad red faces looked down upon the road. [12]
- She could unchain the vengeance which threatened Hermon with a far more terrible danger than the thunder clouds above, under the protection--nay, as it were at the behest of Nemesis. [10]
- That depends upon the time of day, the sun, the clouds, and something upon the person who enters it. [4]
- The fury of the tempest had ceased, but the sky was still obscured by clouds. [10]
- To the right, the swelling mountains of the Sierra Nevada, robbed of their ruggedness and softened into a fairy land, with their snowy summits gleaming like silver clouds against the deep blue sky. [4]
- As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still. [2]
- By the time the steamer was reached the sun was going down in a band of clouds. [4]
- Yet they knew the small clouds floating away from his head did not check his observation. [11]
- Leaden clouds covered the sky, and only in the west was there a gleam of the departing winter day. [4]
- The Summit House, the Signal Station, the old Tip-top House, which is lashed down with cables, and rises ten feet higher than the highest crag, were all in the clouds. [4]
- High up on the sides of the precipices, where it seems impossible for a goat to climb, are vineyards and houses, and even villages, hung on slopes, nearly up to the clouds, and with no visible way of communication with the rest of the world. [4]
- The wind from the sea drove the clouds before it across the sky, and the plain covered with tents resembled a sea tossed into high white waves. [10]
- Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing. [2]
- We rumbled over the plains and valleys, climbed the Sierras to the clouds, and looked down upon summer-clad California. [5]
- All features of the noble building are distinct now, but soft and dreamy, for the sun is lightly veiled with clouds. [5]
- Abdalla motioned to the next room, where the blind men ate their evening meal, and out to the dimly lighted streets where thousands of narghilehs and cigarettes made little smoky clouds that floated around white turbans and dark faces. [11]
- When they returned the moon was coming up, rising and struggling and making its way slowly through ragged masses of colored clouds. [4]
- At evening, when the March wind had torn the cotton clouds to shreds, we stood on the Mississippi's bank, gazing at the western shore, at Louisiana. [9]
- Then, instead of the majestic clouds of incense from the threshers, will rise blue spiral wreaths of smoke from the lonely home. [11]
- It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand. [10]
- But scarcely was the ink dry on the receipts from his creditors when he was once more borne into the clouds on the prospect of millions, perhaps even billions, to be made from a marvelous carpet-pattern machine, the invention of Sczezepanik, an Austrian genius. [5]
- Do you see the golden fringe to those clouds? [10]
- He soon felt the feathers on his back stroked by the clouds, and yet he saw everything below him on the earth more distinctly than ever before. [10]
- There, still weathering the elements, was the old-fashioned latticed summer-house, but the fruit-trees that I recalled as clouds of pink and white were gone.... A touch of poignancy was in these memories. [9]
- He had watched the decline of Dyck's fortunes with an eye of appreciation; he had seen the clouds of poverty and anxiety closing in. [11]
- Disaster hung in the dark clouds, in the shade, in the humid west wind. [13]
- The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]
- Rowena was in the clouds, she walked on air; this was to be the greatest day, the most romantic episode in the colorless history of that dull country town. [5]
- The night, despite the clouds, had a certain luminous quality. [9]
- The rain ceased, the clouds parted, and the sun turned the muddy river to gold. [9]
- Thereafter, amid all the clouds of falsehood and ridicule which we had to encounter, there was one lighthouse fixed on a rock to which we could go for foothold, from which we could not be driven, and against which all assaults were impotent. [6]
- Words had been the clouds in which the lightning of their thoughts had been lost; they had been the disguises in which the truth of things masqueraded. [11]
- But what struck the centurion and his comrades as most remarkable in their appearance were the flash and sparkle from their slender ankles, as the setting sun suddenly shot a fleeting ray through a rift in the heavy clouds. [10]
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