| 单词 | thundercloud |
| 例句 | “I don’t know. He’s really big. Bigger than this horse. He gets really shaggy in the winter. He’s the color of a thundercloud.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “You have remarkable eyesight: you can see a drop of rain in a thundercloud. You have amazing ears: a whisper in the next room sounds like a shout.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Sky darkened by thunderclouds, hundred-foot pines close to the road, heavy evergreen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The thunderclouds which usually go with hot weather were there, high columns of cumulus with glaring edges, but there was not going to be any thunder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, the squall began to subside and the thunderclouds scudded away from the center of town. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke came first as a faraway scent, and then as a thundercloud rolling from the kitchen into the living room: the hot dogs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Her eyes were the color of a thundercloud. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod put his head on one side, and stared at her with eyes as grey as thunderclouds. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thundercloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z MidPass, most of it hidden beneath fog as thick as thunderclouds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Ever optimistic, always looking for a sliver of sunshine in a sky clotted with thunderclouds. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They were thunderclouds of deep gray-blue, rising columns of layered darkness. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I was still chewing on it when Coach Pulaski burst back upon us, his face a thundercloud. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Out here on the water, the planes of his face were rimmed with blue light, as if he were a thundercloud brimming with lightning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It was spinning out of the thunderclouds like gray spider webs and tangling against the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Robert was looking up at the thunderclouds rolling in from the Black Mountains in the south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Jason wondered if you could shave a thundercloud beard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She couldn’t, and the dark spots rolled across her vision like thunderclouds. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Even now, eight years later, I remember how my papa looked that day—like a thundercloud, but also like a pitiful, lightning-struck tree. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Once it was settled that the three of us would go, the journey took on an alarming, expanding need to hurry that was like a walloping great thundercloud assembling around me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Entering that sombre study, I could see just outside the window the brilliant red flames lit in every tree, and beyond, some threatening thunderclouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think anyone would care to try it, if you looked as much like a thundercloud as you do now. Why were you treated so?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt it gathering in strength, like massing thunderclouds, and then it turned its attention, abruptly, to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Jones formed a thundercloud over the little bar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Jones said brightly and blew a great thundercloud of smoke. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy used to have a dress just like this one, except it was a smoky blue color, like a thundercloud about to burst open. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A thundercloud big as a mountain swept up the river just before sunset. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On those days, her hair standing out from her head like a thundercloud, she haunted Southside and Not Doctor Street until she found him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When Vassilopoulos finally puts her characters in a squeeze, the tension remains oddly vaporous, as though she has tried to trap a thundercloud in a vice. ‘Superior’ Review: Double Fantasy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Scientists studying lightning make use of this effect, firing small rockets into thunderclouds. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z Marks lodge inside or sometimes bleed through translucent layers of paint, bursting through the pentimento into enormous floral thunderclouds. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z And in smaller paintings like the vanitas-themed “Skulls,” the grays thicken to thundercloud density. Art Review: ‘Picasso Black and White’ at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-10-04T20:56:12Z Your field guide to alien invaders They arrive in silver saucers, sun-blotting mother ships and boiling thunderclouds. Your field guide to alien invaders 2011-03-12T00:30:00Z Ride Along hinges on one central equation: Hart saying and doing nutty stuff while Ice Cube responds with his trademark thundercloud scowl. REVIEW: Ride Along 2 Offers More of the Same Silly Laughs 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The proposal was to use the electrical charge in the thunderclouds to induce a build-up of electricity on a key tied to the kite string. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z In principle, passengers in a nearby aircraft could receive the equivalent of 100 chest x-rays from a single gamma ray flash, though commercial pilots routinely avoid large thunderclouds. What goes on when lightning strikes? 2013-05-25T23:07:12Z This summer I feel as if I’ve been schlepping from assignment to assignment with a thundercloud permanently over my head, seeing one emotionally taxing or intellectually demanding show after another. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z Eventually, they come to an agreement: “Don’t be afraid of these thunderclouds.” The Playlist: Eminem’s Surprise ‘Venom,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Its small balcony was perfect for watching thunderclouds roll across Mexico City’s dramatic high-altitude sky. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Brick in Mexico City 2012-06-22T15:20:00Z Photograph: Joss Barratt It is pouring with rain, thunderclouds gathering with theatrical intensity over the Soho streets, yet when walks into the room he is absolutely dry. Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century 2010-11-21T08:00:00Z Geometry The impression that Reed Krakoff could catch a puff of cloud and frame its pale and thundercloud gray shade as a dress is the designer’s strength — and his weakness. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z Signs with lightning bolts and thunderclouds in one town along the way, Mahomet, proclaimed it a “StormReady Community.” David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Comprising a full-size, beat-up black hearse enclosed in a steel cage beneath a kind of thundercloud of rusted exhaust pipes and mufflers, it’s materially overpowering, even off-putting, a little scary. Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Jamie D. Ramsay’s cinematography casts a sullen thundercloud over exterior and interior shots alike, a child’s party balloons in one early scene appearing filled not with helium but with foreboding. ‘She Will’ Review: Payback Is a Witch 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z One set of landscapes shows the sublime, such as Joseph Mallord William Turner’s etching of the Scottish Highlands with roiling thunderclouds. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z “I watched a huge thundercloud and lightning march across the valley right toward us,” he said. Old fire lookouts offer sleepovers with history, panoramas and unexpected comfort 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Yet while surrounded by jumbo video screens projecting images of roaring lions, rolling thunderclouds and roller coasters, the producer didn't seem to care. Weenie Roast 2014 simmers with Foster the People, Beck, Avicii, more 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z “His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, and dark is His path on the wings of the storm.” The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather. Bees ‘Buzz’ in More Ways Than You Might Think 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z From plane windows, I have seen the Grand Canyon, the Alps, a comet, towering thunderclouds with lightning flashes, and many other wonders. Advice | Miss Manners: I don’t feel comfortable using the term ‘baby mama’ 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z A thundercloud of media interest has hung over claims of a strained brotherly relationship, now conducted from different sides of the Atlantic. William and Harry side by side behind Queen's coffin 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z “High ground temperature leads to evaporation from water bodies that adds moisture to the atmosphere. The presence of aerosols due to air pollution creates favorable conditions for thunderclouds to trigger lightning activity,” Gupta said. Lightning kills nearly 50 this week in India’s Uttar Pradesh 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Dread began seeping into our hearts as Saturday’s sun disappeared behind thunderclouds and lightning ripped the sky. Opinion | One puppy, lost and found 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z A single unexpected bolt from a rogue thundercloud can be just as deadly to an individual, or as damaging to a property, as hundreds from a complex of storms. Why there aren’t National Weather Service warnings for lightning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Yet it did little to dispel the thunderclouds over him, with the opposition Labour Party demanding his resignation and Conservative backbenchers fearing a public backlash. Boris Johnson, Under Fire, Apologizes for Pandemic Party 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The General Assembly is unfolding this week under a thundercloud of deep pessimism. Analysis: A ‘United’ Nations, navigating a fractured world 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Attached to the chain are charms detailing her story: a thundercloud for the strike, a hand grasping a lightning bolt for her getting a grip on new challenges. Inside the hidden society of lightning strike survivors 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The first, a large wildfire thundercloud that formed over a blaze in British Columbia, occurred in 2017. Australia’s severe 2019-20 wildfires acted like a volcanic eruption, slightly cooling the globe 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The menace of it looms like a distant thundercloud that doesn't seem like it's moving, perhaps because it's headed right for you. Trump lost the election, but he is still doing terrible damage 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z He moves roads and sets brooks flowing in the wrong direction, eventually summoning a thundercloud “so full and heavy that its ragged skirts seemed to brush the tops of the trees.” Review: The long-awaited followup to 'Jonathan Strange" is even more magically immersive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z As thunderclouds rolled over Senegal’s peninsular capital, prematurely darkening the late-afternoon sky, the lights coming from ships on the horizon began to gleam. Eye on Beirut, Senegal Port Rushes to Truck Away Tons of Ammonium Nitrate 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z On Friday night, a giant thundercloud blocked the view on Grandfather Mountain as the comet appeared, thwarting the attempts to photograph it. To photograph comet Neowise, it takes patience and placement 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Fire-induced thunderclouds only form in rare circumstances, when heat from intense wildfires creates a powerful updraft. Australia’s fires blew smoke 19 miles into the sky, similar to a predicted nuclear blast 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z As thunderclouds gathered overhead, she asked Thomas and another young black man to help get everyone to take a knee. A black protester’s pain: Handcuffed by police at 9, hit by a rubber bullet at 22 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The result was the explosive development of thunderclouds that reached up to 36,000 feet high. Saturday’s electrifying thunderstorms were highly unusual – and not likely to repeat any time soon 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Hare et al. emphasize that the diminished flow of negative charge towards the positive end of the thundercloud represents a diminished current in the lightning channel. A closer look at lightning reveals needle-like structures 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z One looming thundercloud is the possibility that Mr. Trump will increase tariffs. Trump trade war slows China economy growth 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z And Stella Rabello portrays unhappily married Maria, a romantic thundercloud of a woman, neurotic yet savagely loving. Review: Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy's 'Moscow' ingeniously spins Chekhov's 'Sisters' 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z First, it needs warm, rising air, or convection, to create thunderclouds. Where will lightning strike next? A new model could help pilots avoid dangerous storms 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Comedy writers are often miserable people, capable of creating joy in others while hunkered down under their own personal thunderclouds. The young star from 'The Goodbye Girl' remembers the kindness of Neil Simon 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z During his speech, church bells tolled in the distance and thunderclouds formed on the horizon against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. Analysis | The Daily 202: The Koch network, down a brother, emphasizes its staying power 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But, on the other hand, no dark thunderclouds kept us from seeing the sunset. It was Friday the 13th, but weather-wise, we lucked out 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But these aren’t your granny’s briefs — they feature bold, hipster prints such as a retro Space Invaders motif, orange koi fish, cheerful thunderclouds and brightly colored root veggies. Undie ideal: Organic and wedgie-proof | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z It also needs the thunderclouds to contain icy pellets known as graupel. Where will lightning strike next? A new model could help pilots avoid dangerous storms 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Those are pretty normal ingredients for building thunderclouds, and the conditions just happen to be unusually consistent in this particular spot. Welcome to the World's Most Awesomely Awful Places 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Detection of high-energy gamma rays from winter thunderclouds. Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “He is a thundercloud. He is quicksand. He is a deep bog.” Opinion | Men of the world: You are not the weather 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s not reasonable that some alchemy of warm water, cool air and thunderclouds can just rear up and disrupt all human life for hundreds of miles. Perspective | Why do Floridians keep telling ourselves we can beat nature? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The rising warm air allows thunderclouds to build during the day before exploding into dramatic electrical storms in the afternoon and evening. Global warming is fueling Arizona’s monstrous monsoons 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z He mumbled like a thundercloud that the round should have been washed out. Raising a Glass in Arnie’s Memory - Golf Digest 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Observation of gamma ray bursts at ground level under the thunderclouds. Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z His doubts passed like thunderclouds across the sunny optimism preached by those raising money for those causes. D.A. Henderson, Doctor Who Helped End Smallpox Scourge, Dies at 87 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The exhibition also features enormous images of iconic vistas like Monument Valley, Death Valley and Oklahoma thunderclouds. National Cowboy museum exhibit explores western weather 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z The prettier and more latticed the patterns in a thundercloud, the more violent it is likely to be, for example. Volunteers help experts track bad weather in parts of Texas 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s smothering, not serrated, and its waves of noise — the feedback thundercloud that opens "T.I.W.Y.G.," the spray that closes "I Need Something New" — are inviting, not foreboding. Savages yield to temptation on new album Adore Life 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Storms and lightning When the ISS orbits over a sea of thunderclouds, it’s not rare for astronauts to witness an impressive amount of lightning. Six amazing sights that look even better from the ISS 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z And a long, long day could be stretching out in front of us, with a few black thunderclouds expected around lunchtime, and perhaps midway through the afternoon as well. US PGA Championship 2015: first round – live! 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z To answer these and other questions, Dwyer needs fresh observations of the innards of thunderclouds. Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But sometimes, the patterns were scrambled — often when a thundercloud happened to hover nearby, he says. Cosmic rays reveal the secrets of thunderstorms 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He had brought a sketchbook, and he opened it to a page where he’d drawn simple outlines: shuttlecock, light bulb, thundercloud, tree. Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z These rays are believed to increase the number of thunderclouds and trigger lightning bolts in some locations. Sun boosts UK lightning strikes 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z And a long, long day could be stretching out in front of us, with a few black thunderclouds expected around lunchtime, and perhaps midway through the afternoon as well. US PGA Championship 2015: first round – live! 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z When Joseph Dwyer’s aeroplane took a wrong turn into a thundercloud, the mistake paid off: the atmospheric physicist flew not only through a frightening storm but also into an unexpected — and mysterious — haze of antimatter. Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It was only 9 a.m. and thunderclouds were building over the lush border town. Wrenches thrown into careful plans to flee Honduras 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The rain stopped, but thunderclouds and lightning hovered on the horizon. Rain, lightning and two counter-protesters on Ferguson streets 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The initial designs are representative of stress: thunderclouds, flames, and angry speech bubbles. Stressful tea bag designs relax in hot water 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z I find myself cheering for Ibrahim as a thundercloud of hope, proclaiming “Life is worth dying for.” Sudan's Real Crisis Is the Disregard for Female Life 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z By midafternoon, people rallied in the heat and chanted slogans as a looming thundercloud threatened a downpour. Zimmerman trial jurors request clarification on manslaughter instructions 2013-07-13T22:54:02Z He did not bother to put the club in his bag Thursday when the sun was crowded out by thunderclouds. 1-Iron, Made Famous by Hogan, Largely Absent 2013-06-14T01:10:08Z Before Luiten teed off on the 14th hole, play was suspended for an hour because of thunderclouds. Luiten wins Lyoness Open for 2nd European Tour win 2013-06-09T16:47:08Z The trouble is, lightning researchers — despite decades of measurements from balloons, aircraft and rockets — have been unable to locate in thunderclouds electric fields sufficiently strong to trigger this insulator-to-conductor transformation. Thunderstorms contain ‘dark lightning,’ invisible pulses of powerful radiation 2013-04-08T21:58:00Z Unfortunately, it did not take long for thunderclouds to gather over this festive barbecue of a deal. Heinz Buffet deal: will anyone spill the beans on insider trading? 2013-02-15T20:45:00Z From a thundercloud of doom rumbling above the boardroom table, to a gentle rosy haze for those misty-eyed moments, it takes mood lighting to a whole new level. Roll up for the Nebula 12, a wifi lamp that brings the weather indoors 2012-11-29T12:31:52Z But thunderclouds threatened, and the game started after a 51-minute lightning delay. Yankees 6, Blue Jays 0 (7 Innings): Offense Stays Hot as Yankees Sweep Blue Jays 2012-07-18T21:39:41Z There he found Nancy, who, as he expected, looked as black as a thundercloud at him for being out all night. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z The theory is that these energetic electrons collide with atoms inside thunderclouds to create X-rays and gamma rays. Thunderstorms contain ‘dark lightning,’ invisible pulses of powerful radiation 2013-04-08T21:58:00Z Also the first few drops that come from the thick, hot lips of the thundercloud are usually immense. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z By midday the thunderclouds had covered half the sky. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z She was learning to look upon him as a kind of thundercloud, out of which, without a moment's warning, came flashes of passion, of feeling, of resolution, of fury, of scorn. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z People are accustomed to see you shrouded in a sort of thundercloud, and this sudden sunshine puzzles them. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Here, Captain, quit your scowling like a thundercloud and tell us what animal has been taking a walk. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z When this tendency becomes so strong that the resistance of the intervening air is counteracted the electric discharge between thundercloud and earth takes place. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Agla� looked at the marquis, whose face was dark as a thundercloud. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z It seemed they had been hatching this long while out of sight, like thunderclouds gathering on a clear day under the rim of the sea. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z My ankle is as black as a thundercloud already. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z The thunderclouds are gathering first here in Indiana. Gathering Storm Over ?Right to Work? in Indiana 2012-01-02T19:24:32Z If a thundercloud looks particularly black or if it can be seen in commotion think of hail and seek shelter. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z While Mink Maiden and her two companions were placing their herbs in bundles to carry back to camp, a dark thundercloud swept over the place, and passed on. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z In all of Paine's writing about Napoleon, at this time, he seems as if watching a thundercloud, and trying to make out meteorologically its drift, and where it will strike. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z A thundercloud hanging over a town in the plains far away. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Suddenly a shell struck the Ramillies forward in front of the barbette, and burst like the rending of a thundercloud. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z Within an hour after the pavement-like, but scarcely discernible, thundercloud consolidates along the west, if the wind is from the southwest. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z About midnight, the thundercloud was full overhead, full of incessant sound and fire, lightening and darkening so rapidly that it seemed to have life, and a delight in its life. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Every town and village and hamlet north of Albany is unprotected; every lonely settler is now at the mercy of this unknown and monstrous menace which is gathering like a thundercloud in the North. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The last ray of sunlight struck athwart a lime, making its branches look startlingly green against the dark purple of the thundercloud. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z At present, for example, they are far too coarse to represent small-scale 'convective' rainfall, a common phenomenon in which warm, moist air near the ground wells up to form an isolated thundercloud. Climate science: Extreme measures 2011-09-07T17:20:24.490Z For an hour or more from a thundercloud that rises on a southwest or southeast wind. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z ‘What!’ he cried, looking as black as a thundercloud, ‘you don’t mean to tell me that you are going to miss the great chance of having three purses full of the Wee Folks’ golden money?’ The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z She was a dusky thundercloud of wrath, who rumbled verbal imprecations with every breath. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Johnson will also be taking this week off to enjoy a brief family break, though Mrs Johnson may struggle to relax with such a dark thundercloud hanging over the breakfast table. Wales 19-9 England 2011-08-14T22:00:01Z Falk paced up and down the room, taciturn, portentous like a thundercloud. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Pickens, 64, a petite blonde in a fringed buckskin jacket and matching boots, jumps from the truck and points to a low thundercloud of dust moving across the valley. How a Billionaire's Wife Is Becoming the Mustangs' Messiah 2011-08-04T09:15:00Z If one face was a sunbeam the other was a thundercloud. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z These myths are usually regarded as allegorical ways of stating that the lightning opens the dark thundercloud, and makes it disgorge the rain and reveal the sun. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It was as if a thundercloud had suddenly crossed the sun, and darkened all the room. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Everybody was laughing but the bride, and she looked like a thundercloud. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z The sultry summer day; the white thundercloud curdling into shape upon the hot north-western horizon and towering into the ether, until its spreading tentacles seemed to seize the world in a mighty grip. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z The young volunteers looked about for the unwilling conscript and soon caught sight of him, standing moodily apart from the others and with a scowl upon his face as black as a thundercloud. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Uncle Jabez went about with a thundercloud upon his face and disapproval in his every act and word. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z When the air rises powerfully to great heights, cumulus is built up in mountainous masses and may become cumulo-nimbus, the thundercloud. The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 2011-06-09T02:00:19.213Z This suspense was worse almost than the row itself, and Brookfield began to wish that the thundercloud would break. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z When the song and the dance were over the “rain-doctor” announced that on the fifth day following, thunderclouds would arise in the north-western sky in the afternoon, and that heavy rain would immediately follow. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z If, in about three minutes, you see her looking like a thundercloud you’ll know the reason.” Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Seated on the highest elevation," he says, "I began to sketch a portion of the view, while black thunderclouds sailed towards the ridge from the valley. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z As it was they went about like two thunderclouds. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z Her hair hung down to her knees and was black as a thundercloud. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Away to the westward irregular fragments of thundercloud, which seemed incapable of cohering sufficiently to produce a storm, coquetted with the quivering mountain-tops. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z After greeting had passed between Anna and him, the doctor said something by way of introduction, and Vliet and I bowed, he looking as black as a thundercloud, and I, doubtless, equally so. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z On one side was brilliant sunshine flashing on soft fields and vine-covered hills; on the other, as a most effective background, against which the whiteness of the foam shone out, low black thunderclouds. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z Like a gold embroidered thundercloud, the hunting-party whirled out of the distance and drew nearer. Blanche 2011-02-27T03:00:34.170Z And there again was the clear sky, and the weary giant holding it up, and the pleasant sunshine beaming over his vast height, and illuminating it against the background of the sullen thunderclouds. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys 2011-02-25T03:01:12.793Z Mr. Pope loomed like a thundercloud, but Marjorie pleaded a headache very wisely, and was taken a sympathetic cup of tea. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Her horizon was becoming banked with thunderclouds, looming huge and black and heavy with portent. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z His lips were firmly set, as though in repressed anger or pain, and a dark thundercloud lay on his brow. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z From No. 4 to No. 8 they were invisible; that they were behind a screen in the commercial-room might be inferred from Mr. Flood's thundercloud presence in the passage outside. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z She was sorry that she had spoken for Penny’s face immediately became as black as a thundercloud. Voice from the Cave 2011-01-04T03:01:09.533Z And, now that Alec and his thundercloud had gone, a waiter ventured to advance. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z With so many ominous thunderclouds lurking — a lousy global economy, an unsustainable federal deficit, the rise of austerity abroad — he's afraid that if he opens another umbrella we might get hit by lightning. Why Bernanke Isn't Doing More to Boost the Economy 2010-08-13T08:30:00Z But to those who read business pages, one story dominates all others: the black thundercloud of double-dip recession hovering over Britain. Osborne must hold his VAT hike to avert the double dip 2010-07-13T19:00:00Z As they awaited Obama's decision on McChrystal, some officials searched for a silver lining in the thunderclouds, or at least a lull in the downpour. Weakening, possible firing of McChrystal compounds sense of peril in Afghanistan 2010-06-23T04:00:00Z It was rather because black masses of thunderclouds had suddenly arrived, and had hidden all the sky above that part of the ancient Aztec forest. The Red Mustang From every direction at once the mist seemed to swirl upwards till the cave mouth was whelmed in a chaos of grey tormented spume, like the gloom of a thundercloud. The Firebrand But, seeing the thundercloud on her partner's face, she endeavored to bring some seriousness into the occasion. The Shadow Ukko, Jumala most gracious, Thou the wisest in the heavens, Of the thunderclouds the leader, Of the scattered clouds the ruler! Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two For the door, alas! is closed, and as I look a thick thundercloud hangs over the house, and I turn away depressed and seek the sunshine on the other side. Windyridge Seated there at his study table, his face wore a very thundercloud of sternness, as he curtly invited the other to make his explanation. Haviland's Chum These flapped away heavily on the near approach of the horseman, and rising high overhead, were soon winging their aerial course seemingly to the thundercloud itself. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance He was still scribbling furiously when the door of the apartment banged open and Mr. Demise strode into the room, his face black as a thundercloud. Death Makes A Mistake Oswell's stainless steel teeth clacked, and the breezes trailing the thunderclouds ballooned his orange silk kimono. Thy Rocks and Rills The thundercloud is thy crown, lightning thy garment, The sun the stool of thy mighty feet. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) And so the discussion ran on; the while, however, the news had somehow leaked out, and the presage of a row—and a very big row at that—hung over the school like a thundercloud. Haviland's Chum A shimmer of heat lay over the wide veldt, and a thundercloud was gathering black upon the craggy turrets cresting the distant spurs of the Stormberg mountains. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Something in his presence was like the sudden appearance of a thundercloud, his face seemed to reflect the dark turbulence of a summer storm. The Unlearned Heedless of those who fell, the dark column came steadily on, like a thundercloud; while the groans of the dying were drowned in the loud battle-cries with which their comrades rushed to the assault. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The thundercloud had spread with amazing speed and blackness. A Frontier Mystery The front of thunderclouds of wide extent frequently presents the form of a large bow spread over a portion of the sky which is uniformly brighter in colour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Half-darkened, the scene was now desolate enough—the long slopes of the kloof, and the ridges cut clear against the livid thundercloud. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance A black thundercloud may literally be dashing itself in his face, while the blue hills seen through its rents maybe thirty miles away. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) All the glory of the midsummer day was ending in the grandeur of a crimson sunset shaded northward by that threatening thundercloud. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Just as rapidly as the Bora had brought up the black thunderclouds, so quickly had it swept away the storm; and, all at once, the travelers saw stretched before them the lovely Cserna valley. Timar's Two Worlds And then, after he was gone out, she’d advise us for our good so pleasantly, that a thundercloud itself couldn’t look black at her. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Then he read the letter through, intently, while his Countess looked thunderclouds at him. When Ghost Meets Ghost When the statues and foliation are once got, as much blue mist and thundercloud as you choose, but not before. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Third and last, in the order of what has changed my feelings, my people have cast 261 me off, and so that thundercloud, as you may almost say, has overblown. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Eva was like a thundercloud all dinner-time, and snapped at any one who spoke to her, until in desperation they left her severely alone. A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends Vandermere’s face was dark as a thundercloud when his eyes fell upon the young man—carefully, almost foppishly dressed, standing upon the hearthrug in front of the open fire. The Moving Finger He saw the thundercloud arise that was to darken the horizon. The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature There he found Shad Wells, in his shirt-sleeves, smoking a pipe in the portico, and looking like a thundercloud. The Vagrant Duke There are black silences, like thunderclouds, that burst into flashes of music. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences Richling looked up at him as a child looks at a thundercloud. Dr. Sevier With leaden thunderclouds hanging over it, the place looked as desolate as the sad-coloured waste. Blake's Burden “No wonder he’s been looking like a thundercloud lately.” Dave Porter and the Runaways Last Days at Oak Hall Tom glanced at her from under his brows, and grew as dark as a thundercloud. Nobody She looked at David's eyes, the color of the thunderclouds outside. The Saracen: The Holy War Next morning we breakfasted under a thundercloud with Egerton grinning inside his skin, and looking like 'Won't you catch it, that's all!' at me out of the corner of his eye. Somehow Good At the same time, wherever he arrives the thunderclouds gather. The Double Four Mary emerged from the hall, looking like a young thundercloud. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thundercloud. Treasure Island An hour afterwards he came back looking as black as a thundercloud. A Sailor of King George And the modern world of moods is a world of clouds, even if some of them are thunderclouds. What I Saw in America The Doctor suddenly withdrew the light of his countenance from them, and sunshine was succeeded by blackest thunderclouds. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers He began to recount what they had heard, so carried away that he never noticed the gathering thundercloud upon his brother's face. The Windy Hill His face was a thundercloud; his vocabulary disclosed a richness gleaned from camp and field which was a revelation even to our caddies; and that is no insignificant accomplishment. Penguin Persons & Peppermints A storm now got up, and heavy low-hanging thunderclouds were rolling slowly along. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck It simply came and went as the dark shadow of a thundercloud passing between her and the sun, and leaving no trace behind. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 By this time Ned's face was a thundercloud in which lightning was clearly imminent, but Mr. Carrington now recovered his wonted tact as suddenly as he had lost it. Simon Joe's head was thrust forward between his burly shoulders and his face lowered like a thundercloud. The Huntress And she looked like a thundercloud every time I caught a glimpse of her face. The Indifference of Juliet A storm of rain from the gathering thunderclouds drenched them through to the skin, but they heeded it not. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Yet there are times when the thought of her sin rises like a dark thundercloud over the sunshine of this life of love. When the Birds Begin to Sing Tanty herself conducted the conversation with her usual high hand, feigning utter oblivion of the thundercloud on Molly's countenance; and, if somewhat rambling in her discourse, nevertheless contriving to plant her points where she chose. The Light of Scarthey Frost’s face was at times a thundercloud, and army circles within the outer circle of Manila saw plainly that all was not harmony betwixt that veteran Benedict and that fragile, fluttering, baby wife. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters It was a north room, and the old wall was a forlorn slate, like a thundercloud. The Indifference of Juliet "This comes on us like a thundercloud, and you seem not to realise it." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 For Juno was looking like a thundercloud, and Minerva like lightning, and Venus like a smiling but treacherous sea. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Big, threatening thunderclouds, with rain on the high peaks before us, rather detracted from our enjoyment, and the Greeks we met pointed to the clouds and with a descending motion of their hands prophesied rain. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" He sees the hot lightning play out of the dark thundercloud. The Pursuit of God There’d have been a convection-current motion of the air in the enclosed space, and minor whirlwinds, and there could even be miniature thunderclouds and lightning. Space Platform "You know I love you, but——" "Then there is no thundercloud in heaven for me now," she said. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 This land of turbulent mountaineers, which lay like a perpetual thundercloud on India's north-west frontier, had kept quiet during the Great War, mainly owing to the Anglophile attitude of its ruler, the Ameer Habibullah Khan. The New World of Islam And then when I looked at him I saw he looked as black as a thundercloud—that nasty look 320he has when he’s real mad. The Squirrel-Cage When my father and she clashed, it was like the meeting of Miltonic thunderclouds over the Caspian. The Dew of Their Youth The Netherlands lay at Philip's feet; and Alva's army lowered like a thundercloud over the Protestant West. History of the English People, Volume IV “When I asked him if he was coming to the spread, he merely shook his head and looked like a thundercloud.” The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine Sure enough, there had risen on the otherwise serene heaven of the Schiller Family a threatening thundercloud; which, any day, might discharge itself, bringing destruction on their heads. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works "I will not stay away," he had replied, with a look black as a thundercloud. Orley Farm It brought them face to face with that terrible storm whose thunderclouds were now thickly darkening over France—the death-dealing typhoon of the Revolution. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette “They might as well try to lick the lightning in a thundercloud.” Joan of Arc of the North Woods He got upon his feet, his face dark as a thundercloud. Frank Merriwell's Bravery Captain Gordon finished his dinner in silence, and as his brow looked as stormy as a thundercloud, not one of the boys in his watch cared to question him in regard to his future course. Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Dust stirred by the hoofs of a hundred galloping horses rose in the air like brown thunderclouds. Kid Wolf of Texas He came and stood, like a thundercloud, by the Doctor's side. Hubert's Wife A Story for You “There thou judgest wrongly,” said Glumm, from whose brow the frown of anger was passing away like a thundercloud before the summer sun. Erling the Bold She sat all the morning with a thundercloud on her face, hurrying out of the room at the interval and eating her lunch alone in a corner of the gymnasium. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story His face was still as black as a thundercloud. Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat “Indeed!” he cried, growing black as a thundercloud; “then I am to take it, sir, that you do?” Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser She had a thought, too, which she did not whisper, and it was this: "how fortunate too that he should have come while Thornton is gone, that no thundercloud may hang over us." Hubert's Wife A Story for You “Black as thunderclouds were their faces,” he said, “as they saw these sweet young ladies, whom they in their callow affections would already wholly monopolise, kissed by a dozen different gentlemen during the day.” Winter Adventures of Three Boys If we were not blind, we should see that thundercloud steadily drawing nearer, and ready to launch its terrors on impure and greedy men. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Franklin first robbed the thundercloud of its lightning by means of a kite made with two cross-sticks and a silk handkerchief. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success We call that fire of the black thundercloud ‘electricity,’ and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History There is no local reason assignable for the presence of the cirri above, or of the thundercloud below. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 Phil looked like a thundercloud, and instead of leaning on his arm, Fee just had hold of a piece of Phil's sleeve. We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses In May 1791 the thundercloud burst, and a public rupture between Burke and Fox took place in the House of Commons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The girl, who could be no more than twenty, was sullen in her beauty as a thundercloud. Everyman's Land When Rossi spoke again his face was dark as a thundercloud, and his voice hoarse as a raven's. The Eternal City Then, heralded too by wrath, the figure of Jesus began to glimmer through the thunderclouds; and Isabel lifted her eyes, to look in hope. By What Authority? So he turned away from her, and looked as black as a thundercloud. Can You Forgive Her? The scarred features flushed so painfully that they seemed to swell; and with the lightning that darted from under the black thundercloud of his brows, the man was hideous. My Friend the Chauffeur Mars nursed the infant in a thundercloud, France gave him empire, Britain wrought his shroud. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Indeed, he knew they were not, for Bertie had strolled into his room one day with a face like a thundercloud. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. And if you'd seen her face when I was scolding her about it! it was like seven thunderclouds. The Wide, Wide World The black smoke of German high explosive streamed up the valley like a thundercloud. Letters from France Behind the mountain, thunderclouds rested, and occasional flashes of lightning illuminated the crests, and faint thunder muttered in the distance. The Delight Makers Edmonson turned slowly upon him with the blackness of his look lightening into a smile as different from mirth as the brassy gleam behind a thundercloud is from sunshine. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 One night, when the sky was covered with heavy thunderclouds and the heat was most oppressive, Madame de Maurillac called her daughter whose room was next to hers. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 While every other servant in the place liked him and trusted him, the sight of his honest, red face and his ginger eyebrows was enough to make Borkins look like a thundercloud. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame He chuckled as he went, for the disappearance of Charlie Menocal's patronizing air and the sudden thundercloud hanging on his visage attested that the charge had gone home. The Iron Furrow Warm summer followed with a dark-blue sky and sporadic thunderclouds. The Delight Makers Then I heard a movement close to me where I lay on the ground, and, like the lightning out of the thundercloud, there came the click of steel on flint and I breathed soundlessly. Carette of Sark Against a gloomy background, dark and ominous as a thundercloud, we have revealed in the last century of Mesopotamian glory the splendour of Assyria and the beauty of Babylon. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria By the time she had finished speaking Roger's face was like a thundercloud. The Moon out of Reach But at the height of the play's prosperity, while the Colonel clinked tumblers with Nelly, came a contretemps, and all the farce darkened swiftly to drama as the gay landscape is overgloomed by a thundercloud. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The stern and sullen mood, from which had dropped but one fierce flash of anger, still hung above the heat of his mind, like a dark rack of thundercloud. Stories of Mystery They were like thunderclouds charged with blasting lightnings. Carette of Sark Day after day, a dull indigo blue possessed it, deepening with night into duller purple, as if the whole heavens were gathering into one big thundercloud, which menaced but never broke. The Ship of Stars Mr. Walraven bit his lip, the baronet looked like a thundercloud, but both took their places. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Aunt Jane's repeated threat of school brooded over his sensitive spirit, like the thundercloud in the wood that was the colour of spilled ink. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Juno's face was like a thundercloud, for she was as much in love with Mark Ray as she was once with Dr. Grant, and is even jealous of his praise of Katy. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering He adored her, and she knew it, but because it was impossible for his features to wear any expression lightly, the natural gravity of his look deepened to a thundercloud. One Man in His Time "Cousin George looked like a thundercloud," said Sally. The Rustlers of Pecos County To be sure, the theater can give us changing sunshine and thunderclouds too. The Photoplay A Psychological Study He runs—he runs—he gropes, under his black thundercloud and load of fright and agony, towards the glimmer that he must fly to those he has wronged. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Mother and Juno were so annoyed, while Will looked like a thundercloud, particularly when she spoke of Uncle Ephraim, saying so and so. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering "No, you precious, only in dancing," replied Mary Byrd, as she rose airily and placed a kiss above the thundercloud on his forehead. One Man in His Time He does not argue his points systematically, but launches a series of maxims, as with set teeth, clenched hands, and a brow like a thundercloud. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Yes, I am speaking of the Hon. F. Lancaster, who appeared for a few moments like a new comet in the cricket heavens, just as the thundercloud of war blotted everything out. Tell England A Study in a Generation There was a tract of yellow sunset sky to westward, a faint new moon half swathed in mist above, and over all the north a huge towered thundercloud kept flashing distant lightnings. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series She turned her own eyes away, finally, and looking at the mountains saw that black thunderclouds were rolling up over the Eagle Rocks. The Brimming Cup After dinner we all adjourned once more to the verandah to watch the dancing fireflies, the lightning, and the heavy thunderclouds, and enjoy the cool evening breeze. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months But his sister appeared very serious, and Miss Gascoigne's aspect was a perfect thundercloud, which broke into lightning the instant prayers were over. Christian's Mistake This story should be read while storms are gathering upon the distant sea, or thunderclouds descending from the Apennines, and when the pines begin to rock and surge beneath the stress of labouring winds. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series With leaden thunderclouds hanging over it, the place looked as desolate as the sad-colored waste. The Intriguers During the day there was a grand procession of thunderclouds filing along over the northern Catskills, and letting down veils of rain and enveloping them. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs It was a dark evening for the time of year; heavy thunderclouds were hanging low in the sky and obscuring the light. The Sign of the Red Cross At this retort a snicker went up in the crowd, and Shan turned upon his followers with a brow like a thundercloud. Ted Strong's Motor Car On the day when the seer left Kaala and climbed to the top of Kuamooakane the rainbow bent again over Molokai, and there rested the end of the rainbow, covered out of sight with thunderclouds. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai The blacker the thundercloud, the brighter glows the rainbow that is flung across it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Suddenly the door was flung open, and Sir Guy strode in with a face like a thundercloud. A Heroine of France My attention had been for a moment drawn to the general combat, but now, glancing down the unobscured avenue between these two thunderclouds, I saw Brayle, the cause of the carnage. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Another moment of dread suspense, like that with which the gazer watches the dark thundercloud before the lightning's flash. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune At the time they arrived, the entrance to the chief's house was blocked by thunderclouds. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai A thundercloud and a little rain afforded some relief from the excessive heat of the atmosphere. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Words of the air Which birds of the air Carry aloft, below, around, To the isles of the deep, To the snow-capped steep, To the thundercloud. Poems Household Edition Then his face grew black as a thundercloud. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol On the latter's face was a look as black as a thundercloud. Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis The lion glowered over the lamb like a thundercloud. The Grandissimes After an unusually hot night the morning broke amid thunderclouds which threatened, by another shower, to destroy our hopes of advancing this day and the next at least. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 It was now as dark as ever it would be that night, and the thunderclouds which hung all over the valley deepened the gloom. Dead Men's Money The forester's face grew black as a thundercloud. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol Then it was that Philidor went forth across the square, his brow a thundercloud. Madcap They remind one of the tints of unearthly light and beauty that adorn sometimes the face of a thundercloud. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss When a tall tough thundercloud bends across the sky I watch for the first flash, and listen for the first roar, and in my heart stillness seems impossible and at the same time imperative. This Is the End The superintendent turned upon the speaker with a perfect thundercloud darkening his face. For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Implore peace, not of deified thunderclouds, but of every man, woman, or child thou shalt meet. Essays in Rebellion In the ceiling certain pink and well-fed cherubs still supported unnatural thunderclouds through which Juno forever drove her gold-wheeled car and team of patient peacocks, smiling high and goddess-like at the squalor beneath. Taquisara Nial looked back: no cross he saw Looming from out the dreadful night: Yet all his soul was filled with awe, A thundercloud with heart of light. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls Franklin first robbed the thundercloud of its lightning by means of a kite made with two cross sticks and a silk handkerchief. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Sunlight was beginning to disappear as he climbed, and he noted the dark thunderclouds, forming in the north. The Tarn of Eternity Sir, you are England's Lord High Chancellor, but are you Chancellor of birds and trees, King of the winds and Prince of thunderclouds? The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan To the south and southwest the Chiricahuas and Dragoons were lost in thunderclouds which flashed and rumbled. Arizona Nights Against the grey rock of the kopjes it showed no more than a crow against a thundercloud. The Thirty-Nine Steps I don't think anyone would care to try it, if you looked as much like a thundercloud as you do now. Little Women Drifting downward from the peaks, dark thunderclouds forewarned of imminent danger. The Tarn of Eternity When she saw how much she was mistaken she looked as black as a thundercloud. Paul Prescott's Charge Some of the wisest of us, remembering the thunderclouds, stacked our gear under the veranda roof of the old ranch house. Arizona Nights Knight rapidly bound his handkerchief round the place, and to add to the complication, the thundercloud he had been watching began to shed some heavy drops of rain. A Pair of Blue Eyes Jupiter, from his seat in the thunderclouds, saw the danger the heavens and the earth were in, and hurled his lightnings at the rash driver. Classic Myths He met it, pointed to where, beneath swirling billows of black smoke, the pretty gable of the taxidermist's house shone like a white sail against a thundercloud, gave orders and disappeared. Strong Hearts Overhead, great thunderclouds kept the sunset; beneath, the blues of the evening were all interwoven with rose; so, too, were the wood and sky reflections in the gently moving water. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I It was then five o'clock, and the approach of darkness was accelerated by the heavy thunderclouds which were gathering over the northern mountains. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War She turned to him a face lowering like a thundercloud, her eyes flashing the lightnings, her lips scarlet and bitten. The Leopard Woman The thundercloud had so darkened the room that she could not very clearly discern what was in it. The Paradise of Children (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys") Then the truth fell on him like a thundercloud, and he hurried back to the house for good. The Christian A Story Every thundercloud has a rainbow lying in its depths when the sun smites upon it. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI His great work is to stop the triumphant march of Death—that grim power which broods like a thundercloud over humanity, and sucks up all brightness into its ghastly folds, and silences all song. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke You have had a tremendous load on your mind, and now it is lifted off; the thundercloud has burst, and though damage has been done, one is thankful that it is no worse. Colonel Thorndyke's Secret While the one sets in dark thunderclouds, the other is bright with victory. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Instead of praying to a God whom we never saw, why not pray to the thunderclouds not to strike us dead, and to the seas and rivers not to sweep us away? Twenty-Five Village Sermons Apprehension hung like a thundercloud over the city of Seville in those early days of the year 1481. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Our Psalmist says that only through trusting Him can a man be taken and lifted away, as it were, from the descent of the thundercloud, and its bolt that lies above his head. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The peril had burst over the heads of the little party like a thundercloud; and now it had cleared, and all was sunshine again. The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl At last the thundercloud broke and the bolt fell. The Three Clerks The huge carrion crows were the only living things which seemed to brave the approaching chubasco, and were soaring high up in the heavens, appearing to touch the black agitated fringe of the lowering thunderclouds. Tom Cringle's Log The sinking moon Secludes herself in massive thunderclouds. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans Do not let thunderclouds, however heavy their lurid piles, shut out from you the blue that is in your sky. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms There, as I lay in an agony of fear, my soul seemed to be whirled on the wind into the bosom of a thundercloud. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction Now the thunderclouds were piling on the horizon, and Cartwright could feel the electricity in the air. The Rangeland Avenger Look at him, as black as a thundercloud! The Profiteers Lofty is the ceiling and with thunderclouds o'ercast; Multitudes of shadow forms go racing wildly past, Whirl around in roaring eddies, as the ocean wave Draws the raging storm and breaks against a rocky cave. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans The young woman was at her desk with a face like a thundercloud. Red Masquerade The shower had fallen, and the moon was shining bright, while every budding leaf and knot of mould steamed up cool perfume, borrowed from the treasures of the thundercloud. Yeast: a Problem The weather grew hot and oppressive, and over the lowlands of Virginia there brooded a sullen thundercloud. Salute to Adventurers A black thundercloud rushed up out of the South, and seemed to leap all the arc of the sky, in a single instant. The House on the Borderland Outside a heavy thundercloud gathered and darkened the room. Ideala She watched the gathering of the distant thunderclouds, which cast a deeper, more sombre shade upon the pines that girded the northern shores of the lake as with an ebon frame. Lost in the Backwoods The robber's face grew as dark as a thundercloud, and a devilish light flashed in his eye. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp Then the redness finished up, like a thundercloud breaking into rain, by his bursting into tears, and hiding his face in Bee's lap. Rosy For the clouds that overhang an active volcano during an eruption of its vapours are, in reality, thunderclouds highly charged with electricity. Wonders of Creation But in quarters more powerful than either purses of gold or scholastic reveries, there has, since the days of Kant and Cowper, begun to gather a menacing thundercloud against war. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Mr. Cardew looked at her steadfastly, scrutinisingly, but her eyes were on the thunderclouds, and the lily fell faster and faster. Catharine Furze They saw a big, dark body like a thundercloud hovering above their heads. A Prisoner in Fairyland I see a thundercloud gathering just below the rim of Barry's hat. Viola Gwyn The earl, when he spoke of it afterwards to his mother, said that Owen's face had been as it were a thundercloud. Castle Richmond It was a terribly stormy day; great black lurid thunderclouds lay piled along the horizon, and came up slowly and awfully against the wind. Dreams and Dream Stories Towering over this volatile, changing world, like a thundercloud on a summer day, looms the awesome power of nuclear weapons. State of the Union Address For that ceiling was the under side of a cloud, a grey-black, forbidding thundercloud. The Blind Spot One day in June, 1792, he went to the common at Philadelphia and flew a kite beneath a thundercloud, taking care to insulate his body from the cord. The Story of Electricity Horn grew as black as a thundercloud, and he cursed the group of pale-faced men who had elected to journey eastward with him. The U. P. Trail Painted in flat primary colors, they looked like paper dolls pasted on the inky thundercloud. Angel Island A bank of thunderclouds lowered heavily above the mountain, and the close, dusty streets were silent, and nearly deserted. Roughing It in the Bush Then suddenly the threatening shadow of war rose in the west like a black thundercloud in the blue summer sky, filling the harvest gatherers with anxious forebodings. The Malady of the Century Similarly, if the insulating air cannot resist the attraction between the thundercloud and the earth, it will be ruptured by a flash of lightning. The Story of Electricity A dull torpor of the soul or the dullness of the thundercloud, charged with intellection and capable of the gloom of God? A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man One little black girl told me she always felt sad when she saw thunderclouds, because she thought some dead person had sent them. The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia This had all come up with the blackness and suddenness of a thundercloud. Rilla of Ingleside For they were shifting—arches and domes, turrets and spires; were melting, reappearing in ferment; like the lightning-threaded, rolling edges of the thundercloud. The Metal Monster When a thundercloud charged with electricity passes over the ground, it induces a charge of an opposite kind upon it. The Story of Electricity Look forth, Claire; moves not some big thundercloud Athwart the sky? The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations There were some sycophants who tittered at his stupid pleasantry; then the table fell silent to hear what answer I should make, and a frown sat like a thundercloud upon the brow of Cavalcanti. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rilla scanned the sky also; she did not like its appearance; a heavy thundercloud was appearing in the northwest. Rilla of Ingleside Meanwhile a mass of black thunderclouds gathering on the horizon threatened one of those cloudbursts of extreme severity and suddenness so characteristic of the plains country. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Even as he watched, the distant glare of lightning threw the heaving proportions of the thundercloud into sharp relief. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day You have scarcely spoken a word of your own accord since you came, and you have been scowling like a thundercloud all the time. The Portygee Havill was standing at one end, as gloomy as a thundercloud, and at the other was the unfortunate creditor with his hat on. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day They laughed and wept and swore with delight,—all save the Spaniard, who was ever like a thundercloud, and Paradise, who only smiled like some languid, side-box lord. To Have and to Hold Overhead rolled and crackled the artillery of an April thunderstorm, and Mr. Caryll, looking out upon Paris in her shroud of rain, under her pall of thundercloud, felt himself at harmony with Nature. The Lion's Skin He stood and looked at me over his shoulder, his face crimson, and his brows black as a thundercloud. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... At the instant, understanding broke upon Carraway like a thundercloud, and as he rose from his seat it seemed to him that he had missed by a single step the yawning gulf before him. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields He has his back to the thunderclouds, but there is that in his eyes which tells us that he has seen them, and that he knows their presage. Yet Again Buckingham stands by, biting his lip, his brow like a thundercloud. To Have and to Hold Away cantered Timothy, and soon caused a flutter of expectancy in the Weeks household, by announcing that "Old Holcroft looked black as a thundercloud and was comin' himself." He Fell in Love with His Wife When the white cumulus clouds rolled up out of the southwest, growing larger and thicker and darker, here and there coalescing into a black thundercloud, Jean welcomed them. To the Last Man The other day while I was working with him in his study, he suddenly became dreamy and absent, his brow was like a thundercloud; he neither saw nor heard me. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels It was a domestic and frightful phenomenon that darkened and chilled the house for her like a thundercloud passing over the sun. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Suddenly I saw a river, dark and ridged beneath thunderclouds, a boat, and in it, her head pillowed upon her arm, a woman, who pretended that she slept. To Have and to Hold They had seen the virgin snows of Chimborazo towering white above the thundercloud, and the giant cone of Cotopaxi blackening in its sullen wrath, before the fiery streams rolled down its sides. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Max Reed was looking like a thundercloud, and he came over to me with a lowering expression that I had learned to dread in him. When a Man Marries The thunderclouds were gathering in the sky, people were laughing in the fields; all felt the heat and knew the storm was coming, but they held up their heads and continued on their way. The Alkahest This, no more, doth Callistes recall: He saw, ere he dropped in swoon, On the maiden the chariot fall, As a thundercloud swings on the moon. Poems — Volume 2 A few thunderclouds were floating in the air at no great height, from which branched lightning descended to the earth incessantly, accompanied by alarming and singular crashes. A Voyage to Arcturus Sometimes the memory of their old troubles in Tetuan seemed to cross like a thundercloud the azure of Naomi's sky, but at the next hour it was gone. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Ungainly, labouring, huge, The wind of the north has twisted and gnarled its branches; Yet in the heat of midsummer days, when thunderclouds ring the horizon, A nation of men shall rest beneath its shade. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets The blackness of the island blotted out the stars with its vague mass like a low thundercloud brooding over the waters and ready to burst into flame and crashes. Within the Tides |
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