From time to time, as we two went on our way, the bright figure of the child paused, hovering low in the
cloudless sky.
'Tis thus, O boy, that Autumn comes, the cold Pitiless autumn of the wrack and mist, Autumn, the season of the
cloudless sky, Autumn, of biting blasts, the time of blight And desolation; following the chill Stir of disaster, with a shout it leaps Upon us.
Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied among cypresses against a
cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon.
Little wreaths of mist were curling upwards, and the sun shone down with a
cloudless, golden light, every moment more clear as the vapours melted away.
The sky was
cloudless. Every condition seemed ideal for the commencement of the return voyage to Jungle Island, where the beasts were to be left.
Aesthetically Elizabeth was fond of still,
cloudless days, but experience had taught her to suspect them.
We started from Zermatt on the 13th of July, at half past five, on a brilliant and perfectly
cloudless morning.
Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was
cloudless, and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
However, this morning it is a fine, fresh,
cloudless day, such as we seldom get in autumn.
The day was warm and
cloudless. At last they came to an eminence from which they saw the valley of the Rhine spread out before them under the sun.
The moon is queen in the
cloudless and starless sky.
"How beautiful!" he thought, looking at the strange, as it were, mother-of-pearl shell of white fleecy
cloudless resting right over his head in the middle of the sky.