Clothed in a mantle of dazzling gold or draped in rags of black
clouds like a beggar, the might of the Westerly Wind sits enthroned upon the western horizon with the whole North Atlantic as a footstool for his feet and the first twinkling stars making a diadem for his brow.
And what have I hated more than passing
clouds, and whatever tainteth thee?
The first attempt she made above the
clouds, but it was unsuccessful.
The mountain before them was shaped like a cone and was so tall that its point was lost in the
clouds. Directly facing the place where Jim had stopped was an arched opening leading to a broad stairway.
Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the
clouds were dispersing.
The weather, hitherto so fine, suddenly changed; the sky became heavy with
clouds. It could not have been otherwise after the terrible derangement of the atmospheric strata, and the dispersion of the enormous quantity of vapor arising from the combustion of
Clouds upon
clouds of dust enveloping The lofty gates of the proud capital.
We must have covered a great many thousand square miles of territory, and yet we had seen nothing in the way of a familiar landmark, when from the heights of a mountain-range we were crossing I descried far in the distance great masses of billowing
clouds.
"I will give you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the
clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
Every night it flew round the Glass Mountain keeping a careful look-out, and no sooner had the moon emerged from the
clouds than the bird rose up from the apple-tree, and circling round in the air, caught sight of the sleeping youth.
While the three friends went on chatting of this and other things, and Joe examined the luminary of night from an entirely novel point of view, the heavens became covered with heavy
clouds to the northward, and the lowering masses assumed a most sinister and threatening look.
Far below were the shining
clouds. They had thickened so that the whole world was hidden.