In the picture, six fighter-bombers float above a mountain range of clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At this point in my life, I am able to imagine Addie, Cynthia, Denise, and Carole perched on a cloud somewhere in the sky, their arms around each other, looking down at the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Too much information, too many pictures cloud my mind. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

From the treetops, from the clouds they plunged to earth, thumped to the ground, sometimes with a bounce. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Full disclosure: If you knew how scared I was, if you saw me shaking right now, white as no cloud that ever flies over Jankburg’s dreary hills, you’d know I didn’t want to let on. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She discarded the pouch and stepped forward into the glittering dust cloud, gripping the crossbow in both hands. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We had a lot of rain that week, and I remember the clouds were still hanging low and thick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

A searchlight swept quickly across the bottoms of the thick clouds. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was no longer bright, for the clear morning had faded, and clouds creeping out of the East had now overtaken the sun, as it began to go down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The steam from the rollers creates a cloud around me, and their warmth seeps into my scalp as she sets my curls with them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The white cloud was the mainsail, he was face down in the water and the sail which he’d fallen on. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burst into little clouds that slowly sank to the bottom of the canal, and I wondered how many creatures would come out once night had fallen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The people of the Protectorate saw a cloud of dust and smoke speeding toward the town walls. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Enormous clouds were blowing by, a spectral procession. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trip had hardly started when the Rodina became surrounded by thick cloud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes in the morning, the rain has stopped and the sun is peaking out behind the clouds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in that dingy room to play with, and Brother’s face was beginning to cloud with sadness. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ceiling, which was twice as high as the ceiling in our house, was painted blue like the sky, and there were clouds and angels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But that dark cloud is sitting on my head. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the world faded back into view, she noticed more clouds floating south past the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke Bitter had painted around it was as dense as clouds, and Jam thought she could see it move, a jerky tendril here and there. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The steam from his breath formed a silver-gray cloud that froze in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Huge dark clouds of them appeared, their high-pitched whine filling the air. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Highly enjoyable though it was to swim in hot and foamy water with clouds of different-colored steam wafting all around him, no stroke of brilliance came to him, no sudden burst of understanding. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In truth, the Ladakhis were at 28,550 feet when they turned around, about two hours below the actual summit, which at that time still jutted above the highest clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was picturing myself driving down a dirt road, clouds in the blue sky, U2 playing in the background. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The dark clouds above us look like water swirling down a drain. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The floor was covered with a layer of fine brown dust that had pushed under the door, and between the walls and the window sash; the dust drifted up in little clouds around his feet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His firm already had a full roster of work, so much, he wrote, that “we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The clouds seem darker than they were when we first got here. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We all know how our imagination sometimes makes us see all sorts of images in chance formations such as clouds or blots. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that fall, in Moscow, Khrushchev declared that "the clouds of war have begun to disperse." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even see the cavern roof—just blood-colored clouds floating in the hazy gray air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On her fourth flight of the day, Lilya and another pilot were returning from an escort mission when two German aircraft appeared from behind the clouds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the woods, the cloud of dirt settled. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We watched the moonlight go weak on the walls with the thickening clouds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, and a few white clouds were easing themselves along like they didn’t care. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looked up and saw with surprise that faint stars were appearing overhead amid the strands of hurrying cloud and fog. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Silence hung over the table like the blue-black clouds in the middle of rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The flying clouds hid it from their sight the next moment, but the men were grinning widely. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The death scream was starting to fade now, fading in the clouds. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Escape the drugs and the dark cloud that hovers over Grafton. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The cloud vanished as it had come, and Sarai pushed away from Ruby, shocked and streaming. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After each air raid, a dark cloud hovered over the bombed cities for days. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Zoe let loose two quick arrows that exploded at their feet in clouds of sulfurous yellow smoke. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Remember what Papa used to say, ‘Behind a white cloud, a bird looks like an angel.’” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed to be a person dragging something, for little puffs of red dust rose in sulfurous clouds at every other step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Clock Watcher whose whole body seemed a shifty cosmos of dark skies, dark clouds, and stars, with a lopsided fingernail moon where most people had faces, raised its arms high and wide. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“She needs to get her head out of the clouds and see what’s really important. What I’m handing her on a silver platter.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So I start to ask Janae, thinking that she might have the answers, but her eyes are fixed on the setting sun, and I'm sure her dreams are floating with the clouds. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The pale moon dipped in and out of the strands of clouds so that Juana walked in darkness for a moment and in light the next. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding a pouch in one hand, Grandma swung it so that it scattered a twinkling cloud of dust. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We now see before us a world previously hidden entirely by clouds—its features first explored by radar and by space vehicles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sparkling river flowed before a stone wall, and mountains disappeared into a sea of clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“When your enemy is coming, you don’t gather clouds. You gather knives.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the sadness that had hung over her like a dark cloud for the past few days dissipated. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was nobody to cry for him, and only the sky and the clouds and the trees were the witnesses of this sad event. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Jalil had taught her that gray clouds got their color by being so dense that their top parts absorbed the sunlight and cast their own shadow along the base. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A frown clouds his face, but it passes quickly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to make it to nightfall, not even with the gray clouds overhead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dingy gray that was still somehow beautiful, like clouds before rain. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m uploading all of these to the cloud, so they’re not being stored on my phone. We have a megaton of video, so that was the best option.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every footstep kicked up a little cloud of dust that flashed silver above the stage. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A hundred hues of red, yellow, gold, and orange met and melded in the temple walls, dissolving one into the other like clouds at sunset. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A funnel cloud snaked its way down toward the hill like an inky black finger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But even at this far distance, she could see a blur of anxiety swirling around Glerk’s head like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Milo’s face clouded almost as abruptly, and his spirits descended into a state of sad anxiety. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the sky; the sun was in the center of the south sky, covered with high gray clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood by the window, watching the lingering cloud of dust dredged up by the car tires as the government people drove off. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the low clouds— an almost featureless carpet a thousand feet above our heads—perspiration stippled his temples. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Heavy dark clouds crowded the far horizon, but clear sky overhead let the sun bathe the ground with warmth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Segee leaned on the rake he was using and kind of stared up into the clouds. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

You can’t see the sun through the thin buffer of cloud cover but the light is fully diffused, almost too bright to see. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody did, we all looked up at the blue sky that didn’t have cloud the first in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But from where she was she could see only clouds, black as funeral suits. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The boys turned and ran for home, and the cloud boomed at their backs and the lightning shattered the air into quaking pieces. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared out the window and watched the April breeze chase clouds across the stars. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once we’re outside in a large field surrounded by woods, then we rise off the platform and become wrapped in clouds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The white cloud with the red heart is moving. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His breath is a cloud of vapor in the cool air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And now we were winging toward Japan,” he said, “surrounded by scattered clouds that were edged with reddish gold from the slanting light of the newly risen sun.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear seemed to stretch out a vast hand, like a dark cloud rising in the East and looming up to engulf him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined the weather satellite picture - a jumble of patchy cloud, looking like the jumble in my brain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

We asked Grandma and Mother Lois, "What makes the clouds look like puffy balls of cotton, and what makes the sky always blue? Does God live above the clouds?" March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lit it and puffed out two quick clouds of smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the clouds finally shredded themselves and the silvered moon looked down upon Phippsburg again, it looked down upon a town strangely changed, its sheds turned into hills, its woodpiles into igloos. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

While Papa was almost hidden in their dust cloud, I could clearly make out the men that was up on horseback. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of doubt passes over her face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun hides behind a cloud and a cool breeze blows over us from across Central Park. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us sat there for a long time, silent, beneath the ever-changing clouds, surrounded by a dancing breeze. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A skylight shows off blue sky and clouds. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The infuriated Cloud-Men jumped up and ran after them along the cloud, pelting them mercilessly with all sorts of hard and horrible objects. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boy watched the cloud shadows roll over the fields and pass over the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was drizzling again, and gray clouds hung low in the sky. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Out of the black sky there came dropping like a bolt a winged shape, rending the clouds with a ghastly shriek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As gunfire cracked in the hills, they watched the clouds slide over the moon and the last of the season’s fireflies charting bright yellow arcs in the dark. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The starlight was gone, clouds were everywhere, and there was a drizzle falling. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those clouds don’t speak of rain. They will dry up before they can shed a drop.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The clouds lowered, and now a few flakes of snow came curling down again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the first time I noticed this — how Renee kind of swished around in a cloud of perfume, and Annette just popped up like some spastic hand puppet. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whips of red lightning crackled through the clouds, thrashing up a bitter wind that filled my lungs with dirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If low-key meant pumping music, throngs of people sipping on beer or mixed drinks, and clouds of smoke hanging in the air, then that’s exactly what it was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I fly higher into the blue, hovering beneath clouds. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Good heavens, they are pushing it off the cloud!” cried James. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud caught up with them, and the first stout drops plopped on the ground out of the riven sky. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a white circle cloud, too, twisting slowly on the small screen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I hear another jet above the clouds, and I whisper to it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Either way, many people felt that Cleopatra’s spell over Mark Antony clouded his ability to make sound decisions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Billowing clouds of smoke surrounded her, blotting out the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And the more they hoped, the more the clouds of sorrow lifted, drifted, and burned away in the heat of a brightening sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In flawless synchronization, the cloud of fairies swooped, diving toward him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The Hub is behind us, black against the clouds, but the buildings around me are dark and silent. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The sun was fighting through the leaden clouds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just sort of happens, and suddenly you realize the cloud that looks like a big hand with fat fingers now looks like a catcher's mitt, or a big soft TV set? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds broke and boiled in the sky, and the ship’s master roared out ragefully, “This fool’s gale blows all ways at once! Only a magewind will get us through this weather, Lord.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You’re living in the moment on a cloud somewhere, not thinking, not considering costs, effects, consequences. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

That was not good enough for the AEC, which denied her a security clearance to serve in the same capacity at Berkeley and placed her husband under a cloud. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Their frozen breaths clouded the waxy smear of light. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He was riding along in a cloud of visitors, bright-clad foreigners, observers from Europe, plumes and feathers and helmeted horsemen, reporters from Richmond, the solemn members of Longstreet’s staff. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night around them was almost impossible to see in, the crescent moon covered with a blanket of gray clouds. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now I remembered about how it used to be, sitting on the edge of the rice field as she waded through the brown, clouded water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of white vampire moths hovered above Her grisly head. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appointed day dawned full of clouds, but so many people had turned out that Marcos did not want to disappoint them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The town ahead, squashed, became all broad, bright horizon; and when the clouds went gold, it seemed to Ralph that the buildings kindled violently. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Great Belin, there isn’t a cloud in the sky! It’s a gorgeous day—taking everything into consideration.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sky and its clouds are made of melting cherries and flaming oranges and burnt grapefruit as the sun sinks into the sea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had no face, only a shifting cloud of smoke where his features should have been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And they were very sick, because the fluid was milky and clouded with dead cells, cells that had exploded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the cloud of life whirling above the mirror. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was still there, but the sky was less blue, the gentle motion of the boat slower, the water of the lake more murky and clouded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when I gaze up at the food court skylight, I’m mesmerized by the elephant-colored clouds galloping past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Pluto is about forty AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a look, almost like longing, that passed over his features like a soft cloud. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The morning of King Joffrey's name day dawned bright and windy, with the long tail of the great comet visible through the high scuttling clouds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A black plume of smoke hung in the sky, and below it a cloud of plaster dust in which a crowd was already forming round the ruins. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not mad at Jackie,” I said, but that lie was like a dark cloud settling over us. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, not a cloud in it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shot out from behind a cloud, and there she was in the field, brandishing a cane, her white hair blowing in the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had full access to the great cloud’s wealth of information, but could not access its algorithmic “conscious” mind. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was a beautiful day unfolding outside, with fleecy clouds in a blue, blue sky, and a mild breeze rustling the grass in the backyard. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the mid-morning the clouds drew down lower, and it began to rain heavily. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He came close to your arm,” Fezzik’s mother said quickly, before her son’s face could cloud. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the chair closest to the elevator is a cloud of smoke flipping through a newspaper. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There death was dead, and people made every gesture in a cloud of music. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked up the stairs slowly, a heavy stupor clouding my mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I run barefoot over the stone floor, blinking clouds from my eyes, my limbs still heavy with sleep. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Something dreadful. These messages are connected to it, but they are only the beginning. What’s coming is worse, far worse—a looming darkness, like storm clouds sweeping in to cover the sky.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she was across the porch I couldn't hear her heels then in the moonlight like a cloud, the floating shadow of the veil running across the grass, into the bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wide expanse of stars normally visible in the unpolluted winter sky was hidden behind rain clouds on that gloomy day. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the height where the bird used to disappear, the clouds would gray the world like an ink wash. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the sky was marbled with clouds. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The gray clouds in the sky meant more snow, but they also meant night would come earlier, and maybe an earlier end to the day’s marching. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was caught behind clouds, and the forest wore the night like a thick cloak. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A smoky fist appeared out of the clouds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The perfectly round spot on which we’re standing is still safe, but the clouds are moving in on us, and the ring between us and the approaching danger is being pulled tighter and tighter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The horse reared again, raising a cloud of dust. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salt air lay still and heavy that morning, but the western sky was a fiery red, streaked with lowering clouds that glowed as bright as Lannister crimson. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment, grief flicked across Tanin’s face like a cloud passing over the moon. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At first, tired as they were, neither of them could sleep at all; but as the sun far away was climbing down into slow moving cloud, Sam dozed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Frightful flew from her stub and walked under an overhang near the aerie just as rain poured out of the clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Music filters down from the clouds as he leads me away from the team, the table, and out onto the floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a cloud of dust moving across the wasteland and noticed that the other boys had stopped digging and were watching it, too. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And lower down a large clouded spot that duplicated itself in the right lung farther up. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I turned a corner, the white blossoms of an unexpected hydrangea—luminous clouds, floating pale in the shadows—brushed against my cheek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He stomped away again, shouted at the unmoving clouds, came back in a more reasonable state of mind. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Speaking of the weather, as we sat there tucked away all afternoon I watched the thick rain clouds I’d seen earlier creep slowly toward shore and us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I followed her outstretched arm, which gestured to the east, at a low wall of clouds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, we’ve been cut off by the dark mass of clouds, so that we can go neither up nor down. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Just when the moon neared the bright star, a cloud got in the way. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d just rounded the final curve, heading toward the thinning cloud of brand flies near the tram entrance, when a scream split the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She paused outside the phone box to admire the huge cumulus clouds piled against a pale blue sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Smoke and fire engulfed the area, and from time to time, the sound of gunfire reverberated through the clouds of smoke. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, bud. With the high-pressure system, chances of snow are pretty low. There won’t be any clouds.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tears begin to cloud her vision, but she wipes them away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Over the spreading canopy of the Oxscinian forest, the clouds rolled through the sky, growing darker and darker with each wave. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I swallow hard, trying to stop the emotions that come bubbling up, tears clouding my eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Baruch sat down beside his companion, and Will stirred the fire, so that a cloud of smoke drifted past the two of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

While I’d slept the clouds had blown away, and now the moon lit the surrounding countryside in pale silver light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, these giant black clouds were rolling in, and lightning was glittering in the distance. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rain clouds blew away, leaving room for a bright red sunset, where fiery lights burned behind the clouds that gathered around the lowering sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks—shattering, corroding, death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out in their clouds with darkness before the evening cool slowed them and Brian tried brushing them away from his face and Derek’s, but it was like trying to brush smoke. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

His memory was all swirling clouds and broken pieces of sound and sight and feeling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His feet breached a crust of frost with every step, and the cloud of his breath accompanied him like a chummy ghost. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear, but to the north banks of clouds hung low. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was enough light, it was established, from stars, and from the cloud base reflecting streetlights from the nearest town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He woke naked on a goose-down feather bed so soft it felt as if he had been swallowed by a cloud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We reached Marlinton’s city limits at seven o’clock in the morning, just as the sun decided to reappear from behind the thick layer of clouds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We watch wisps of clouds hover over us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

On those chill afternoons when the sky was like lead and the clouds were racing, we stayed in the library, banking huge fires to keep warm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He scrubbed vigorously, sending up clouds of dust. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Defying the storm that threatened, the clouds that curtained the sun now pass, and we three survivors of a long-ago tragedy stand together in silence, beholding one another in the sun’s light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Idiptu gestured at a shifting black cloud at the far end of the alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Villagers from all round, like us, were converging towards the bonfire to be lit there; already smoke wisps were curling towards the clouds, torches were beginning to flare. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds had finally dissolved, and the sun was almost at the horizon, its orange and red rays pouring through the window. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I felt the hovering cloud of despair lighten and drift back as he spoke. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Come back out the clouds, girl,” Santa ordered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The on-again-and-off-again clouds got to be always on and they ended up blacking out the moon two nights later. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The wide-open building that serves as church and school was built of concrete-block pillars holding up a roof of palm thatch and billowy clouds of scarlet bougainvillea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight of herring clouds had moved over the sky from the south. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit the cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A dirty cloud of sheep On the hill, Their faces Nibbling grass Wet with rain. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cellist, denied first chair in the Cleveland Orchestra, left the city in a cloud of bitterness. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the nearby hills, a warm wind was slowly driving rain clouds toward the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Aaron swatted at the cloud that came out of me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Parts of the surface are on fire, others emit evil- looking clouds of vapor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Townsfolk complained about the congestion, the noise, and, when it was dry, the dust clouds the traffic stirred up, making the air so thick and dirty they couldn’t open the windows of their houses. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was flying cautiously, making her way along the coast and up the straths, the wide valleys of Scotland, because the cloud was low. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The rain had cleared and now the sun was sliding into a towering mountain of clouds over Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He thought: How far is it to that cloud? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heat of his breath clouded his round glasses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he dreamed of horses, herds of great horses, thundering by through black canyons of cloud. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was the color of clouded silver. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I asked.The sky was still thick with clouds, so the surrounding countryside was just a sea of black. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He watched in silence as the guy drove off in a cloud of blue smoke. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt flew up in a cloud as I hit the ground. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

More of a wispy, dirty white, like clouds on an average winter day. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I feel silly for having shouted at the rain, complaining about living under a cloud. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The mooring lines snapped, and the Argo II shot into the clouds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he was wrong about the weather for that day, for a little after noon the clouds pushed over the hills and the rain began to pour down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bats fluttered through the moonlight sharply etched against soft fluorescent clouds high in the night. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed each day that God would take away the pain and the depression, the dark cloud. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin the color of clouds just before the sun starts to set, her long silver braid hanging down her back, a crooked-tooth smile dancing on her face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cool air prickles in my lungs on the way in, and on the way out unfurls in a cloud of vapor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her back was thunderhead blue, her rose-tinted breast had the brightness of cloud tops. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The fever that swept up over me made my body go limp, and I was pressed back against the bed, sinking into the pillows there like I was falling through clouds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For nearly six hours up in the clouds, we couldn’t stop talking about meeting our mother, going to the People’s Center, and getting to know Sister Mukumbu, Sister Pat, and even Crazy Kelvin. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We half burrowed in the soggy leaves, the smell of decay and rebirth clouding around us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His horse is white and his armor is grey, there are dark clouds in the background. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the thin swirls of clouds high in the blue Arizona sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ship slowly floated above the island, turned to the south, and disappeared into the clouds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the conclusion of the ceremony, we returned to our huts, where a fire was burning with wet wood that cast off clouds of smoke, which was thought to promote healing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ella changed into a dark-haired, extremely pregnant cloud nymph, writhing in pain on a camp bunk bed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The bombers pass through the clouds of black smoke. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you’re not such a barbarian after all,” he grunted, exhaling a huge cloud of green smoke. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Frequently the updrafts create cells of muscular, anvil-headed cumulonimbus clouds that can rise thirty thousand feet or more above the Mojave. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the dark clouds began to overtake them: a sombre canopy with great billowing edges flecked with dazzling light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Storm clouds rose up behind her, dark and threatening, but a powerful sun peeked through, sending coppery rays through the whole drawing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Bugs as big as hummingbirds zipped on and off the water while little ones swarmed in small dark clouds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Kate turned off her flashlight just as a cloud passed over the moon outside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Glittering clouds of gorgon essence struggled to re-form, but •the river pulled them apart like a blender. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

August disappears in a cloud of dust behind her, and panicked roustabouts dive out of her way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And, when the cloud- white rice was finished, Ma took her chopsticks and fed the fish from her bowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They scattered, then massed again, hovering over her like a great, undulating cloud before settling back onto the branches of the oak tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As the sky turns black, the clouds rush in to hide all the stars. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Low, grey clouds hid the mountains from sight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Women already inside the house replied to the newcomer with similar cheers, and their sounds merged into a thundering song that reached up to the clouds. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He believed then that touching the sky had to do with where you were standing and how the clouds were that day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The insects buzzed round his ears and suddenly a little cloud of flies flew up, disturbed from a projecting stone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds parted just long enough to reveal the top of the mountain below them: a spearhead of black rock jutting from mossy green slopes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He lit one of the cigarettes, and blew a cloud of smoke into the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before she reached me, an arrow exploded at her feet and a cloud of yellow smoke billowed around her team. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In five minutes more the cloud of bewilderment dissolved: I knew quite well that I was in my own bed, and that the red glare was the nursery fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The propellers moaned, and the Friendship passed through cloud streets, lines of puffy Rift clouds, and began to bounce and sway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you looked only at the clouds, what would you say?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Clouds are never just clouds in my hood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When she spoke, her breath clouded in the air before her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“In high school one of my nicknames was Spacey Faraci because I always had my head in the clouds.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He saw a range of snowy mountains, so tall they broke the clouds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The tiara has sent the dark cloud away. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the back of an army truck, Ted Hall sat among shocked soldiers, watch- ing the shimmering mushroom cloud rise and begin to fade. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sky, a few small white clouds. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though all those layers of cloud were gradually being peeled away until, at last, on the sixth day they rode with the Xi, they saw the sun. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The upper wind settled in the West and deeper and wetter clouds rolled up to spill their laden rain on the bare heads of the Downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was doing business in the back parking lot at school, eyes red, lids heavy, lost in a cloud of sweet smoke. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A frail luminous glow pushed out between the edges of horizon and clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their gravity drew to them substantial quantities of nearby gas, growing clouds of hydrogen and helium that were destined to become clusters of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smothers me in a cloud of chemicals that makes me cough, and the next time I touch my hair it's so stiff it feels like plastic. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Little strands of white, barely visible in the dark, floated toward me like a cloud. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A sky without no clouds and air crisp but not really cold. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I said, shouting, slapping the ground with my hand— chasing away the self-pitying thoughts that had started to cloud my head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a dark night, with heavy thunderstorms and low clouds, and the Maddox immediately began evasive action, zigzagging through the heavy rain and turbulent seas. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The curls stood away from the head in a little cloud. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a cloud of light purple. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was afraid of the airplane ride and getting knocked around by those clouds. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puddle reflects A blue skv, some clouds, And the goat’s tongue Darting in and out. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of vast gossamer gas clouds formed, colonies of great lumbering, slowly spinning things, steadily brightening, each a kind of beast eventually to contain a hundred billion shining points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth is still drying out, but the sun is almost breaking through thick white cloud. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things he did seemed right, as he imagined with his heart the rituals the cloud priests performed during a drought. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter get quiet and it’s like them eerie seconds before a funnel cloud drop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Behind it, the sky was starting to lighten into a pale lavender, the clouds almost soft looking now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As I look up at the sky, there seems to be a black cloud lingering over my neighborhood, even on the sunniest day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We hove up onto shore just as the sun was dimming behind acres of gray clouds, perhaps an hour left until full dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They reach the front of the line and the vendor has three cups of cocoa in striped cups waiting for them already, with clouds of extra whipped cream on top. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead I focus on the cool breeze on my face and on the bright blue sky, where I train my eyes on a cloud. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And, later that day, when the clouds tore apart in the freshening breeze, she was. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The moon drifted in and out of the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came for him as the sun was falling behind a red-fringed line of clouds that had banked against the horizon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few fragile seconds, she remained as detached as the clouds overhead, suspended in an intermediate space between nightmares and dreams, where reality couldn’t reach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The sky darkens, like a cloud is passing over the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

By the time the Lost Girls returned to the beach, the sky was the color of wet slate and an army of angry clouds massed along the horizon, awaiting further instruction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She claps her hands and then touches her cloud hair. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

His flame lit the pit, pale gold shot through with red and orange, and the stale air exploded in a cloud of hot ash and sulfur as the white wings beat and beat again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You took the bead from him, and your face brightened slowly, like the sun peeking out from behind rain clouds. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window and watched the clouds and the crops, planted in neat square rows, and I tried to remember every detail so I could tell Liz all about it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss them the way children miss their parents, the way I miss Mrs. Wexler, the way I miss things being easy and clouds being below me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All it did was hover, like a semitransparent cloud, draining Harry of energy as he fought to keep it there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The eunuchs who served them threw bundles of dried grasses into a great bronze brazier, and clouds of fragrant smoke rose up toward the moon and the stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window, too shocked even to cry, until we climbed into the clouds and there was nothing else to see. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I knew her face too, small and oval, the clear white skin, the cloud of dark hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And as my soul drifted alone and forsaken above the clouds, my body would be cold by morning. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a rainbow halo around the moon, partially cut off by dark clouds. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They waited, watching the moving clouds reflected in the lake, while the bush next to them whispered in the breeze. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“But everything was confused and clouded. It seems to me we came upon the cauldron. And yet,” he added, “when we found it, I wept.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Voices, it turns out, streak into Zollverein from all over the continent, through the clouds, the coal dust, the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her two towers seemed to touch the belly of the clouds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pipe smoke drifted in clouds around Albert’s head. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We watch a tugboat pulling a ship, leaves turning orange and brown on the shore, and the sky darkening with rain-filled clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

His ego was so wounded when the shadowshapers didn’t embrace him as their leader, his vision became clouded. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grand palace rose above the rest of the city like a mountain, the thick snow lying on its tiered roofs like heavy clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect people to understand my journey, and I’m not going to let their opinions cloud my vision.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She pulls out her phone and presses some buttons with her thumb, and we both look up, watching clouds—or, in my case, planes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

If a comet or an asteroid dropped into the atmosphere of Jupiter, we would not expect a visible crater, only a momentary break in the clouds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, go upstairs,” his mother said, swiping disapprovingly at her husband’s cloud of smoke. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s more that there’s this black cloud of awkward whenever we’re together, and everything feels all wrong. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Throughout the next day the company went with greatest caution, for flights of gwythaints, Arawn’s fearsome messenger birds, were now seen against the clouds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds which were sailing majestically across its endless depth made him fed giddy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sped off, the door slamming shut soon after as I was left coughing in the cloud of dust thrown up by her tires. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Denna made a beeline for the front door, moving but with the slow determination of a storm cloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, my mother's canasta friends, who declared they hated pennies in their purses, disposed of them gladly in the whale's mouth or the canopy of cloud. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He takes a pull and exhales thick white smoke that swirls up into the air like a cloud. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Overhead, a huge storm was brewing, with clouds blacker than I’d ever seen over the city. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Warthog tusks were oudined briefly against a patch of cloud in the dock lights. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then the cloud evolved into the Thunderhead, sparking with consciousness, or at least a remarkable facsimile. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Heaven, she had explained, was up above the clouds, a place where people of pretty much every religion agree God lives. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She followed her and found Sosie stretched out on her back in the sand, watching the clouds and stars perform their own choreography. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I look up and see wisps of clouds in a sky that goes on forever with layers of pink and orange. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On her way back, the sun had already melted a few gray clouds. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Nommo rains from a cloud, rises in the vapor from a human mouth: a song, a scream, a prayer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus exhaust freezes, trapping all the noise in a gritty cloud. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Only a few scattered clouds crept across the sky, but the air still felt too crisp, almost burned, like all the moisture was gathering into something solid, something we could feel. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But not just her belly—her fingertips and toes, eyes and ears—lightning and thunder and bone-soaking rain and darkening clouds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The daze of solitude swirls around me like a cloud. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The moon was lost in a cloud bank. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fore of the ship passed into the sun, enveloped in clouds of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We push our way up in the clouds; the clouds get mad and push back. Like you and Fern fighting over red and gold crayons.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then down from the clouds, over the feathery tips of the hemlocks, came Chup. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, the bar he was working on looked unchanged, but he’d pulled enough iron from it that the cloud between his hands was nearly black. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her white hair shudders like an angry cloud as she smears peanut butter onto the bread, all the while mumbling to herself. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He wished then they had taught him more about the clouds and the sky, about the way the priests called the storm clouds to bring the rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sun winked behind a bank of low-hanging clouds, turning their undersides rosy pink. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the west, the clouds were moving in to rain again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy and a girl sprang out of the dust cloud and raced through a forest of inky-black trees. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the sixties it clouded the minds of the hippies like the pot smoke rising in their bongs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A cloud of ravens was pouring from the cave, and he saw a little girl with a torch in hand, darting this way and that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take off those cloud slippers,” said Boo, flapping beside them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Other clouds cast broad shadows across the valley. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark, with the clouds and the storm. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My only regret is that the clouds had blown in while we walked, leaving the sky flat and grey as slate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And as the Captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A gleam of sun through fleeting clouds fell on his hands, which lay now upturned on his lap: they seemed to be filled with light as a cup is with water. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Above the looming cliff, the pale wadded clouds reminded her of Einar's sheep when, after the snowmelt, they still huddled for warmth but with heads down moved across the meadow nibbling at new shoots. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the window and looked out It had clouded over and was beginning to rain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had named every cloud, even though no two were ever the same. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“May be unstable? There’s no may about it. Not that it matters. Soon you’ll be no more than a cloud of radioactive molecules.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Above us the black clouds move with her, shadowing where she goes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Nicolas had gone to fetch Amanda in old Covadonga, which still ran, though it barely sputtered along on its remaining nuts and bolts, lost in a black cloud of burning oil. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motor roared, and Mr. Levy sped away within a few seconds, leaving a settling cloud of blue exhaust. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held it above his head to block the sun, which had darted out from behind a cloud to further bake the cracked orange dirt. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Mountains and storm clouds rose to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She who sees signs in the way trees stand, in the forms of passing clouds. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning was expected, yet there was no cloud. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel it, and smell it, pent up there, behind the clouds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is coming weakly through the clouds, the smell of wet grass warming up is in the air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew now why the Archmage had feared to send him forth, and what had darkened and clouded even the mage’s foreseeing of his future. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A gloominess was cast over our day, as though a cloud had come across the sun. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds speed through the darkening skies, probably headed for Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were already exhausted, clouds of smoke still rising from the blackened wood and swirling through the camp. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Under the circumstances, the prospect of turning his clients around while his rival’s clients were pushing toward the summit may have been sufficiently distasteful to cloud Hall’s judgment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment of sundown that day, there was no sun visible, only a dying of the light behind clouds that flowed off Catoctin Mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dan Lawrence was not yet twenty; he was still weak from his wounds and loss of blood, still under the cloud of a horror that only subsequent horrors could make him forget. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great rolling hills began to appear, and over them hung clouds filled with rain. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They sat on some rocks, dangling their legs over the edge, and shared a few sips from the canteen while the sun sank closer to the mountaintops and the clouds turned from white to pink. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the north, wispy and cottony streaks extended down from fiery clouds, a gorgeous pink rain falling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we sprinted into the clouds themselves, the odor grew stronger. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The world below was distant and small; it was dwarfed by a sky so blue and vast the clouds were lost in it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was made of black thundering clouds that swirled in a clockwise fashion. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The mist rose and rose and then became a hovering gray cloud above both their heads. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Christoph pulled the handle of a white floor-to-ceiling freezer, and it opened with a hiss, releasing a cloud of steam into the room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Above the marshes, a pale quarter moon waited in a light blue sky, with mares’ tails clouds brushing against it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One small cloud floated on his otherwise sunny horizon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her brooch, though, was like the sun peeking through dark clouds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, blinded by snow or cloud or fog, or with your wings heavy with ice, you can fly steadily into a mountainside and crash. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane was slammed again suddenly with another loud, jarring explosion that almost rocked it over on its back, and the nose filled immediately with sweet clouds of blue smoke. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I left Mrs. Hauser sitting in her silky purple cloud under the springbok so that she didn’t have to battle her arthritis just to walk me to the door. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

An enormous anvil cloud is out over the Atlantic. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone went about with a red nose and a cloud of frozen breath. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She said farewell to the consul and flew up through the gathering dark to join Kaisa in the clouds. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick gray clouds huddled in the distance, and I added that to the list of totally not ominous things. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The explanation was simple: clouds had covered the target before the planes could bomb it, and the mission to Bologna was still to be flown. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The lamassus didn't need to be told twice, and as we got closer to the cloud, their bodies began to glow with a soft blue aura. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the dawn light, billowy clouds mounded against the far horizon like a snowdrift. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As the morning wore on, the sky became a crisp blue with hardly a cloud. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of Scoob’s mom slip back into his head like those long stringy clouds, see-through and not fully formed but visible. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was a bird of the cliffs, open river valleys, and the bottoms of clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My father was not a ghost; he was God with his back turned, hands clasped behind him and fierce eyes on the clouds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds inside burned away, leaving nothing but red dust and shimmering heat, like mirages on the Sahara. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stooping like a cloud, he lifted a burning branch and strode to meet the wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not bother to take off her nylons or her shoes that she says are more comfortable than clouds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ivy nodded, but the storm clouds just kept building and building. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and clouded with tears. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The top step seems dry enough, so I sit down and watch the clouds pass quickly in front of the moon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The light was there, but it was far away, like a cloud he couldn’t touch. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes, not clouded with drink but clear of purpose, were fixed on the captaincy of this reeling ship. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But let’s pretend again that we have made it to the Oort cloud. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would’ve explained how it was still raining, and how the clouds were pasted to the field, and how the mortar rounds seemed to come right out of the clouds. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steam hissed up from the surface and collected into clouds a few feet above my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then, of a sudden, the clouds parted, he felt the sun like a crown of glory, and he was in a peaceful field. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

December 12, the day of the first ball, dawned clear and mild, but by noon clouds had gathered and the wind had become sharp and cold. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the god regained his feet and started lobbing coconuts at them from far below, the Argo II was already sailing through the clouds above the Mediterranean. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The floating clouds glowed red with the coming sunrise. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I wished on a butterfly that landed on me, on a camel-shaped cloud, on a cricket in the house, and a lightning bug glowing on my ring finger. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then one small cloud burst right outside their door. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he realized that his glasses were clouding his eyes because Goyle obviously didn’t need them — he took them off and called, “Are you two okay?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s candy. It kind of looks like a cloud, and it doesn’t taste like anything. It’s just really, really sweet. Sometimes Mrs. Borkowski put walnuts on top of it.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline hovers like a storm cloud in the dressing room, and I can tell that my heart is not the only one racing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was a lovely evening, without rain or cloud. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dream of the cloud is not new. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

From the clouds above, a female serpent representing the Devil gathers up their spirits. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I felt no shame to see her face cloud over with tears as she went on her way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the watery moonlight, the island’s volcano was a formless monster wearing a halo of thin gray clouds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jones listened in attentive detachment somewhere within his cloud. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds began to gather over the piazza. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moon drifted in and out of sight behind the shifting clouds. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The sounds and smells swelled around them in a dizzying cloud. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few white clouds drifted high, teased along by a breeze as gentle as a breath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The skies were hidden by mist and the ground was clouded by the chilly fog. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A great star cloud in the constellation Sagittarius, looking towards the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

High up among the bulging clouds thunder went off like a gun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead, lightning flashed within an enormous storm cloud. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Luna felt her fear expand inside her, like a storm cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

An expanse of feathery white clouds floated in the turquoise sky. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And that laugh came out of his mouth in a huge pink cloud. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And Con could not remember if he had ever seen a sky so blue: robin’s egg blue, smooth as glossy porcelain, untouched by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They gave off a hum, sounding more and more like a cloud of flies swirling around my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Unless it was when he put wood on the fire and sat down and talked while it burned, and the steam began rising in white clouds once more under the little roof. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The dark cloud tormented me day and night. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, over Evreux, a wall of clouds ignites once, twice. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he drew close, Pax saw that even his eyes were clouded gray with age. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The weather was crazy for November 4, low seventies, dry, breezy, no clouds. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When I followed their gaze, I saw a thick cloud of grey smoke rising from the thatch, to become lost in the darker grey of the sky. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their hides reflected the color of the sunset like clouds on the west horizon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A watery sun was trying to break through the clouds now and it had stopped drizzling at last. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then I’d drift off into puffy clouds, thinking a boy liked me, let me ride his go-kart, and promised to be my pen pal. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then closest to the ground was a huge cloud which was colored gray because it was a rain cloud. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The deluge slowed, the clouds circled counterclockwise, and a flock of spotted sandpipers blew in from the coast. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of girls, of flowery meadows, of white clouds suddenly come into my head. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the wonder I felt when I first saw a brace of mountainlike, spotted, black-and- white horses clopping down a dusty road through clouds of powdered clay. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I watched, confused, as Nyame stood up and plucked a rosy cloud from the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The clouds part and out comes the sun from behind them, shining brightly on us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I let my head roll all the way back on my neck so all I see are clouds, birds, planes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He knows that his mother will sit silendy, staring at the clouds, as they journey back to Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His anger had so clouded his thinking, he hadn’t considered the incoming tide. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s past midnight, and clouds scud over a nearly full moon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sun’s rays tinged the sandstone walls to a dull pink and clouded red. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Here, the mountains and woods were just backdrop—familiar, known, nearby, but no more consequential or noticed than the clouds that scudded across their ridgelines. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Where they once stood, a huge cloud of smoke and dust billowed up from the ground and trailed off to the east. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The moon escapes from the clouds, and I suddenly feel naked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Billy and his group joined the river of humiliation, and the late afternoon sun came out from the clouds. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin sat there for a while listening to the wind tease the trees as clouds moved in above them, and he let his mind wander. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The cometary impact and fireball would simulate all effects of a one- megaton nuclear burst, including the mushroom cloud, with two exceptions: there would be no gamma radiation or radioactive fallout. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, like a summer rain, Sister Monroe broke through the cloud of people trying to hem her in, and flooded up to the pulpit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of his strange, clouded manner, he spoke so reasonably that Hazel felt rather ashamed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Up above, the sun hides behind the clouds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never been in a forest before, but she saw a picture once of komorebi that was misty like a cloud. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For, pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance and who had waited so very impatiently. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It wrapped her up in a fragrant cloud that seemed to carry her into the kitchen, disentangling her cares and worries on the way. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me the names of all the clouds and made up stories about them. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Some of these clouds are colored green throughout the south end: Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Olympia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And then the light rain began to blow on the wind although the sky was not properly covered with cloud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of officers had clustered by the small lighted door, looking in. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clouding over outside and the lake was darkening. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They weren’t visible, because the clouds were low and by statute airships had to keep a certain height above fen country, but who knew what cunning spy devices they might carry? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed out the different types of clouds and what they told of the weather to come. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few swirling lines suggested a rush of wind and some clouds. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But they finally reached the edge of the clouds. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not like observing birds soaring, or the creek rushing, or clouds chasing. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The morning’s clouds had lifted, and the sky was so bright that it hurt his eyes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s late afternoon when I wake; the sun emerges from the clouds, highlighting the tender greens all around the cottage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"Nothing, Father. It is as Primus told you. The evening sky hangs above us, the color of a bruise, and clouds carpet the world beneath us, all grey and writhing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hid behind the clouds, unable to stomach the wretched scene. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were blue-bellied clouds hanging low over the mountain peaks, and he could hear thunder faintly in the distance. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then everything was happening at once, too quickly: there was a burst of gunfire, and a cloud of acrid smoke billowed across the slope, though she saw no flames. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The satyr stopped short, obviously surprised by the cloud of salt. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Others had seen the same omen in those flat white clouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like feeling the buffet of the first shadow fingers of cool air touch your wings, as the storm cloud you’ve been trying to outrun begins to catch up with you. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Throughout the morning it had drizzled on and off, but now the clouds were breaking up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A bright flower of flame blossomed against the bruise-dark clouds, and the craft drifted down slowly, ablaze like a beacon, and floated, still blazing, on the water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just because you get distracted by the silver lining for a little while, that doesn’t mean there’s not still a huge dark cloud behind it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky remained a hot, dry blue with not a single cloud in it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are a little dust cloud of our very own, I think as I walk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sea breeze cooled the sun, too, which shone whiter and feebler against aging clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Moths and clouds and flowers and fire and ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When you say Durham! the wheels begin to turn, the smoke rolls in massive clouds from every stack and the sweet assuring music of busy machinery is heard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The gray sky curdled and the clouds resolved themselves into little lumps, like substandard mattress stuffing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was almost clear, with small, fluffy bits of clouds moving across the blue, and he shrugged his shoulders to ease the stiffness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick clouds conceal the sky, which appears only here and there like the small lakes on a map, and the air threatens rain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All this I resolved in my dream, while the clouds lay across the face of the moon, for like most sleepers I knew that I dreamed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon a soft gold light bathed the Court of Honor and storm clouds walled the northern sky. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My vision is so accustomed to a shifting horizon, to the metamorphoses of ocean and clouds, that to see such a mass of rock, immovable against the sky, was astonishing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was streaked with high, thin clouds that looked like a cotton ball stretched apart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds darkened and gathered together as we approached Mount Elgon, and splats of rain began to hit the windshield. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Florida saw them running toward her, she felt as if she would break apart into a zillion pieces, and all those pieces would scatter into the air and disappear into the clouds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A typical atom has a kind of cloud of electrons on the outside. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, peering out at the clouds both above and below the horizon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It looked like there were two layers of clouds now, one layer lower, like gray veil spread before the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they could do nothing with the cloud that hung over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt free, as though I could soar above the clouds. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, it could have been a certain cloud above our house with some weird mix of pollution and chemicals in it from some power plant in Joliet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One side of the sky was completely blue and the other was filled with stagnant clouds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The figure whips its head in our direction, just as the moon finally peers out from behind the clouds, and for a second before the figure turns and runs, I see a face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A cloud passed overhead and darkened the house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo let out a happy whoop as the dust cloud got closer. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Reaching the pool of spheres below it is truly like falling into a cloud, soft and light and comforting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was coming up and there was little cloud. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m weightless as I hug my arms to my chest, like I’m speeding down a tunnel slide instead of free-falling through cloud after cloud, which I suppose I’m not actually doing either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And despite the heat and humidity, they were often forced to wear stifling head nets and gloves in order to protect themselves from the clouds of insects that hounded them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the periphery, interstellar matter is compressed by the supernova shock wave, triggering new generations of cloud collapse and star formation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

People said they climbed the trails to the mountaintops to look west and southwest and to call the clouds and thunder. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

With something of a start, I did remember: a windy autumn night, full moon obscured by dusty rags of cloud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks to a cloud of violet disappearing behind a gate, I learned where she lived. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next car, a banged-up red sedan, went past them in a cloud of exhaust fumes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was floating on a flowered, cake-scented cloud. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were no clouds on the horizon, but the air felt dense with moisture, as if a storm was simply refusing to form. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A cloud of breath escaped her mouth every ten or twenty heartbeats. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The clouds spun in my mind, pushing, pressing against the back of my eyes. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the clouds eased up and let loose of the moon’s light, I could see the cap’n plain and clear. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside is the Play God power-up, blue and beautiful, its swirling clouds smudging underneath my fingertips. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun is dipping below the rim of clouds, a sudden last brightness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crept like an atom cloud shot by lasers—or barely at a snail’s pace—as several folks slowed us down to say their hellos. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” Celeste said, tightening the base of her hair cloud into a ponytail. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I described everything to them— the airfield, the airport, the plane, what it felt like to see clouds from the window of the plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe we were moving; I imagined that the plane sat still in the clouds while the earth flew below us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tired of invoking God through the three-legged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

White light pulled at the ends until they swirled around her head in a black cloud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The jinx broke: The dust-figure exploded again, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense gray cloud it left behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The wind outside blows violently now, trying to part the clouds but to no avail. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if M31 were at such a distance, it could not be a cloud of mere interstellar dimensions; it had to be much larger—an immense galaxy in its own right. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lands were beautiful, but nobody walked the meadows or fished in the clear waters, nobody explored the rocky mountains or stared up at the clouds. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It looked now as though he were moving into a great canyon of clouds and the wind had dropped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A storm of light fell upon the river and Montag dived under the great illumination as if the sun had broken the clouds. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telling in the fog how far the fall would be on either side, but it looked awfully steep, and we were after all a mile up in the clouds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I lay flat on my back for a few minutes and watched a cloud turn into Abraham Lincoln’s hat, which made me think of Great-uncle Edisto and his tomatoes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Iowa, I’d spent my fair share of time studying the clouds and the stars. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not a smirk, either—a shy little smile, like the sun peeking behind the clouds. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

You could almost feel the temperature of the room drop, like the way light dims whenever a cloud floats in front of the sun. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was on his hands and knees, heaving clouds of vapor. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Studied the ground with such concentration she didn't notice the clouds forming above her head. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

So in 1954, in the month of June, the planes visited the forests of the Northwest Miramichi and white clouds of settling mist marked the crisscross pattern of their flight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Stormhold itself was perched high in the sky, where the thunder clouds gathered before they went down to the lower air, spilling rain and lightning and devastation upon the place beneath. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shay’s eyes narrowed, confusion clouding her face, as if her memories of the underground prison didn’t fit in with the rest of her pretty worldview. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could listen to its voice in the thunder and feel its breathing in the winds, see its breathing in the clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stopped hating them it was like I stepped out from under a dark cloud and saw the sunshine again. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A peppery cloud of flies hovered over the flopped arms and legs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And when the bus pulled away, she did not look back to see him receding, to see him disappear in the cloud of exhaust and dust. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The quarry had the best of it at first, but then another hunter flew free of the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Warm breaths, sweating bodies make fog, clouding the windows. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wilson came into the front room, puffing out clouds of pipe smoke. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke a tawny shape, dog-like, sprang out of the overhanging nut bushes as silently as light from behind a cloud. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is meant to sound like an antislavery argument transforms itself in midpassage into a verbal fog bank that descends over the entire subject like a cloud. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock that afternoon, tufts of clouds had drifted in and the sun had slipped behind them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The exhaust clouds up around us like steam, the fuel smell piercing the predawn blackness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its wings moved up and down with long, massive flaps that swept away the clouds we were flying through. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My fingers give a yank, and a cloud of feathers floats down around us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the sky was dark, furious clouds stampeding across the sky, and the wind tore at the threadbare dress Ophie wore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud rolls lazily towards her in the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear except for a few clouds that now and then drifted below the window. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As dawn came, the black sky turned gray, then clouded over, and it began to drizzle. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ours was a baby blue Pontiac Trans Am, which flew past, then screeched to a stop on the shoulder a hundred yards or so down the road, in a cloud of gravelly dust. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And I felt that moment when we left the ground, and the fair fell away below us, and ahead of us was nothing but the towering white clouds. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the clouds had lifted, but there was no airplane in sight. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s technically a pond, but it’s got swans and geese and it reflects the blue sky and the big puffs of white clouds. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats, and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In case this moment, like a trail of cloud, floats away. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The night was old, and westward the waning moon was setting, gleaming fitfully through the breaking clouds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Heck, Percy kind of liked the coach’s idea of using it as a missile and sending Gaea up in a godly nuclear mushroom cloud. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Imagine a ball of sun sneaking through the clouds. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A cold wind came swirling through, and a cloud of ice crystals sparkled blue-white in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was hidden by the clouds, and he was not aware any more of the color of the land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lassoed a nasty patch of storm cloud and pulled it in. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and clouds of Venus, which are semi-transparent to visible light, and reaches the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud is sliding away from the sun. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Something about air currents or cloud formation, perhaps?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s twilight,” Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like a strong wind, Dad rises from the clouds, strikes down the stairs, swift and sharp and mad as lightning. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“What do you want?” he says, nearly knocking me out with a cloud of wine fumes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we got to going faster, a grand cloud of dust rose behind us and folks ran out of their houses to watch us go by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Wispy clouds scurried across the sky like little ghosts. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As I look at the clouds, ice crystals build up on my window, and my eyes become heavy with fatigue. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gray clouds hang low in a watery sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Before the Thunderhead achieved consciousness, when it was merely known as “the cloud,” criminals—and even public agencies—would find ways into people’s private doings, against the law, and exploit that information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The cops respond to the chants with tear gas that blankets the crowd in a white cloud. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky is blank and dark, the moon shielded by clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He muttered, “Ow,” and burst into a cloud of green flame, which I figured was going to make Babycakes pretty upset. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above me, the sky swirled into a huge funnel cloud. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frank remembered what Piper had told him about the coach’s cloud nymph girlfriend who worked for Piper’s dad. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At many wavelengths the clouds and atmosphere of Venus are entirely transparent to radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The results depend on the initial conditions, particularly on the distribution of gas and dust density with distance from the center of the cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day he watched the clouds gather on the west horizon; by the next morning the sky was full of low dark rain clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the clouds parted, the passengers glimpsed giant creatures, turning in the sea, that looked like monsters. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

And clouds got at least ten different names, I say. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me, white marble steps wound up the spine of a cloud, into the sky. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ran downstairs, moving with color and life against the dark woodwork and the clouded light of the stairs, their feet clattering, and Mrs. Dudley stood below and watched them in silence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

About halfway between the floor and the ceiling, musicians float on what look like fluffy white clouds, but I can’t see what holds them aloft. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mateo points out the dark nimbus clouds, and I’m straight wowed I get to live in this moment with someone who doesn’t deserve to die. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a hot afternoon in Indianapolis, the air thick and still like we were inside a cloud. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Up above, clouds will billow out of nowhere into dark monstrosities, pregnant with malevolent intent, and a clear blue sky is like a magnifying glass for a punishing sun. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I left the cloud of smoke and rubbed some of the sting from my eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His sympathy was like one of those clouds in the even blue of his calmness — that’s how sorry he felt, so sorry, and sorry, and sorry. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one night it clouded up and rained till daylight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy, gray clouds obscured the sunrise, and a few raindrops already warned us it wasn’t going to be a beautiful day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The “rain room” was the chamber off the kitchens they’d designated for Feral’s cloud summoning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On and on, the clouds passing sometimes without me noticing, the moons rising, stars peeping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of us stepped out gingerly, watching the black clouds crest the mountain and drop into the valley. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I return to class and the black cloud takes hold. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, streetlights blinked to life along the streets of Bed-Stuy as the swirling orange clouds gave way to dark blue. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The horde of arai wailed, flapping their leathery wings and stirring up clouds of blackness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After a little, clinging to the rock, he found himself with only clouds above him and mist below—and he knew that beyond the wall of mist reigned fire. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Russian drew himself up stiffly and pointed to the clouds that were blowing in toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so awesome how she transformed each of our hairstyles into big, round bouffants with curled, flicked-up ends, topped by a cloud of hair spray. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was a frigid afternoon and the wind was fierce, whipping the fine dust up in soft clouds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

High in the air small clouds like puffs of cannon smoke were driven eastward by the March wind. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched them disappear like a cloud into the trees about his house, and he ran at them, shouting and shaking his hoe. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Riker let out a gasp and then he was gone, and Stella gulped once and then swooped a circle through the clouds before diving back down. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sun has made its entrance, and the sea-blue sky is dotted in white puffy clouds. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Smokes were pouring from it, and while those that rose into the upper air trailed away eastward, great rolling clouds floated down its sides and spread over the land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Slowly the sky above grew lighter, and then suddenly the clouds broke, and their draggled fringes trailed away northward up the River. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the clouds, turning my face to the pounding rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Each batch of bricks bakes for fifteen hours, sending clouds of black smoke into the sky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Early morning clouds cover the stars like blankets. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I strained my eyes upon that cliffside veiled in cloud, but nowhere could I catch sight of her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man exhaled a grey cloud of smoke and squinted. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

White clouds passed above him like angel caravans, perhaps carrying the complaints of others. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kingston puts his paws up on the back door, looks sadly in the window at Garrett, whose eyes are clouding with tears. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they were rain clouds, heavy and dark, and sometimes airy tufts of white that cast delicate shade and twisted into shapes like hunting ravids or castles in the air. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wind shifted, and the alley filled with clouds of gritty steam from the doused fires. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They must have climbed a long way up; Tally could see patches of moonlight rolling slowly across the low hills around the city, pushed along by the fight wind that barely tugged at the clouds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When winter arrived, I pulled Mother’s dress in worry each time lightning belted the ballooning clouds, spilling rain on the fields. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the cloud ripped apart, and I saw Typhon clearly for the first time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Great bolts of lightning cracked from the low-hanging clouds, and thunder shook the ground. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't like them clouds. Remember how it rained just after we landed?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Shasta had not realized how cold and wet the inside of a cloud would be; nor how dark. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was those clouds that got you in trouble. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The room was dim from the closed curtains and the cloud of smoke surrounding Mr. Diamants chair, cluttered with all the little items from our packing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Emma and, doggone-it-all, she was squeezing that awful doll and starting to pull her lip down and cloud her eyes up, getting ready to bawl right along with the new-free folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thick enough that I couldn’t tell what time it was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It disappeared into the clouds just as Toby realized he’d been staring a second too long. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Back in Montana you had steep craggy mountains that rose ten thousand feet into the clouds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A water sky, a dark reflection on the clouds, showed where the open water lay. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up then, and the dry dirt whipped up from the ground and passed over them in a cloud. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The morning came after the day of battle, and it was fair with light clouds and the wind turning westward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two cloud boys—one slightly larger than the other—crept into a large nimbus of a building. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was hanging where the windmill had been. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They continued past the kitchen quarters, which were a mess of shouting, clouds of flour, and surging fires. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A bright full moon drifted ghostlike among the broken clouds. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But for centuries after their discovery, the composition of those clouds remained entirely unknown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I think this the world’s sun dims between clouds regathering, and soon a flaw of rain runs sparse and hard upriver, spattering the crowds on the Embankment, darkening the sky. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had always been precious to her parents, but with her entrance into the rarities of algebra and Latin she climbed into clouds where her parents could not follow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, hello, Marion,” he said, exhaling a cloud of smoke and turning his back to us. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She throws down some powder and disappears into a cloud of smoke. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The waves didn’t break, and the clouds didn’t either. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last I saw him, Johnny was tearing down the road toward the square, raising up little clouds of dust as he ripped along. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

From dawn to dawn there was not a cloud, and at night the stars hung out of the sky, golden and cruel in their beauty. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The fog has rolled even farther back, a clouded gray wall miles off the shore. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The air is heavy around us and blackish-purple clouds roll in faster than I had expected. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dust clouded the air in the living room when I got into the house, and setded on every surface. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel the fetid gas cloud escaping from the mouth of the bottle and wafting like a moist cadavers hand across my face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Low in the East there were black bars of cloud like the fumes of a great burning. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lefty was dealing with the loss of their parents in the only way he could, by disappearing in a cloud of hash smoke while listening to the absolutely saddest music in the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A net of lightning flashed across the clouds. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot and good after the rain and the clouds from the sea. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was soft as clouds and clear as the sky could be. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the passing clouds had left a hint of rain hanging over the street, which made it look darker. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The balloon was certainly descending, because they were enveloped a second later in thick freezing cloud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bass blew out a cloud of smoke which made me cough. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I keep looking up searching for dark clouds, but all I see is blinding blue. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The first bolt of white heat missed, drilling a hole in the wall that sent up a strange cloud of dust. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What... ,”Mark said, relief like a bursting cloud in his chest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In the last doze period before daylight, before he awakened finally with the morning light and the clouds of new mosquitos, he dreamed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver rolls his shoulders and lights up a cigarette, breathing a gray cloud out through his nostrils like fog in the cool morning air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a big white cloud sitting on top of her head like it is hair. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I can’t stand in a television studio wearing a costume and makeup in a cloud of fake smoke and rally the districts to victory. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Except it’s a white cloud’s fault, not a rabbit hole’s. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke was rolling from the furnace now in heavy billowing grey clouds, filling the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the late dusk, it was still possible to make out the dark cloud over Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sinking moon was obscured by a great sailing cloud, but suddenly it rode out clear again. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She set her feet down as lightly as she could, imagining that she was a cloud, a mist, snaking slowly but surely around the gnarled oak trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’d either have to get out of the clouds, or land and wait for the weather to clear or for daylight to break. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had the sensation of clouds gathering over her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The clouds have blotted out any trace of sunshine. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We ran outside and saw a huge cloud, horribly black, moving toward us over the north fields. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The mountains swung a half-circle around a lake black and sullen below threatening clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Harry believed that after you were dead and buried you changed to plants and fire and dirt and clouds and water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of storm clouds in the sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A cold wind blew down the hallway, and above us through the open ceiling, the sky swirled with gray storm clouds. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the dusky clouds in the northeast sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In front of us, a path of floating stones led through the clouds up to Mount Olympus, hovering six thousand feet over Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This angry black cloud looked nothing like the wispy gray plumes they’d seen from Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The pig stomped around and tore down half an acre of trees, belching a cloud of noxious gas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s screaming and dirt getting kicked up and clouds of fine dust filling the air. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright, but clouds scudding across it kept throwing them into darkness. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The boards that he had crafted so carefully were neatly stacked, but his tools were scattered about, and it looked from the graying clouds as if rain was on the way. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Arrows of gold and silver streaked into the cloud like rocket tracers and exploded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Go to church in that cloud of weariness? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ninety cuts and you come to a carbon atom, with six protons and six neutrons in its nucleus and six electrons in the exterior cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, if you urinate in the pool a bright red cloud will surround you and we will be able to tell who has relieved themselves. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I left the South Summit ahead of Mike, Yasuko, and Andy, and almost immediately descended into a dense layer of clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, a dust cloud swept toward Nyame’s palace, and the faint sounds of screeching and rattling carried over the roar of the chaos in the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It had a high brown smokestack that the blue smoke was pouring from and an extra little roof that seemed to be sitting on great billowing white clouds of steam. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the cloud of smoke and the broom moved off across the floor. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke had lessened, but it still wafted out the door, a dark, hazy cloud covering the entire area. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Until luckily, the sun clouded over, and everyone began to get goose bumps. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, is that right? You’re the one getting attacked by disappointed rain clouds. Why don’t you lighten up?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, a mourning dove cooed, the low hum of a lawn mower rose, a passing cloud cast them into shadow for a moment, then drifted away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then next furthest away and to the west were some big clouds which were colored slightly orange because it was nearly evening and the sun was going down. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, except for way out there, where the clouds were stacking up. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful noted the moisture in the air, the clouds, the wind, and the other migrating birds passing overhead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The cloud cooled a little of the pain in his hand, allowing him to think more clearly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days’ travel down the coast, a dark and threatening mountain of clouds appeared over the ocean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

After low clouds, the moon makes its appearance. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I find a star ahead of us, as the clouds shift, but it seems to be the only one. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The shade of the clouds would not come until the afternoon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fixed his eyes on the cottony bits of cloud stuck in the gaps between the pines above him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The water is already clouding with a swirling murk of poisonous multipurpose cleanser. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I stared down at a girl in a blue-and-white nightgown who stared up at a puffy canopy of clouds. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On the ground, trembling, I stared up at the passing clouds, wondering how Monday could live with such a monster. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“No. Rain is coming. Those are cumulonimbus clouds. Besides...can’t you smell it?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In ordinary visible light, the faintly yellowish clouds of Venus can be made out, but they show, as Galileo first noted, virtually no features at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words disappear into a cloud of smoke. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The forecast called for clouds and intermittent rain all day. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The words “Terrorists” and “Go Home!” kept flashing through my mind, and a flood of feelings—fear, anxiety, anger—clouded my thoughts. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ragged clouds were hurrying overhead, dark and low. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The animal was blacker than the fiercest of rain clouds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A diffuse cloud of yellow light billowed through the depths, like someone had poured liquid neon into the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My boot squished in mud with every step and my breath puffed out in white clouds before me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud still followed me everywhere I went. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the skies over Chicago grew dark as the dust cloud traveled eastward, and a few days later people in upstate New York looked up, astonished, into skies the color of rust. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the clouds are black, like rain’s gonna pour any minute. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fear was like a cloud itself, threatening to suffocate him. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

But moments later a man in a bright orange vest appeared out of the cloud. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peeking through a thin layer of clouds. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A great cloud of it was going up far away in the direction of the Woody End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, the weather is not ideal, as I’m certain you’ve noticed,” August says, gesturing up at the heavy grey clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The clouds were breaking like a roof opening above our heads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I felt confused and listless moving through the crowds that seemed to boil along in a kind of mist, as though the thin humid clouds had thickened and settled directly above our heads. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fits of weariness began to pass over Longstreet, as clouds pass over and dull the heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a brown suit came toward her, puffing little white clouds of breath. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette, but the cloud of smoke made the magazine even more invisible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city’s skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The air came out of me in the shape of a cloud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I can’t fly don’t be taking me to your cloud. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stars and their accompanying planets are born in the gravitational collapse of a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, even as he thought of all these things, he noticed somehow that the sky was a lovely shade of blue and that one cloud had the shape of a sailing ship. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the sky rumbled and the clouds burst. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the moon was mostly covered by clouds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The bolts were making the normal-looking white man in the picture with him float off his feet and scramble and scratch at the air like he was ’bout to drift up to the clouds! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds would have cleared off in a few hours, as they usually do, and the volcano would have emerged as a black shadow under the Milky Way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the fluffy clouds lit up pink against the orange sunset—even if it’s in the colors of the sky. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he lay on his back in the grass and looked up at the dumpling summer clouds. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up from his hole to see the water truck and its trailing dust cloud. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They ran sluggishly on the parched grass, holding sticks as guns, making shooting sounds with their mouths, raising clouds of dust as they chased one another. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A cloud of dust bloomed around the trio as they thrashed closer to the edge of the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The other two hunters never emerged from the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sky was a great gray wall of cloud. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A pastel rainbow arched out of the clouds. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Back in the days when the world’s digital network was called “the cloud,” people thought giving too much power to an artificial intelligence would be a very bad idea. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When he woke a dog was licking vomit from his beard, and dark clouds were scuttling across the face of a sickle moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that later she’d have the names of every kind of cloud on word cards for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were one or two fluffy, almost decorative clouds. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was an odd sensation, to stare down at one’s feet and see moving clouds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Chariots circled it, locked in combat with the creature in the cloud. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look out the rounded airplane window and marvel at the clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touch ing down everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny, warm morning, the sky streaked only by a few wispy clouds hovering in the distance over the hills. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had been permitted an additional month in which to complete the hours, and then given his Assignment privately, with no applause, no celebration: a disgrace that had clouded his entire future. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rich smell of the porridge was intoxicating, and its hot mist made a translucent cloud around the woman, softening her many scars. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She is irritated and peeved and just plain over it, over every metaphor from storm clouds to raging rivers, and she used to love metaphors. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His breath coming back to him, each new lungful of air a gift of infinite price, Ben rose to one knee and watched the fight with eyes that were clouded with pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud formed above my head and became my constant, unwanted companion. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our plane descends through the clouds and my new city sparkles below, dazzling in the morning light. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were often the first sign of a storm, the frayed hem of cloud heavy with weather. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In some places, rules were put in place forbidding the judges from speaking among themselves during auditions, so that one person’s opinion would not cloud the view of another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Possibly not forever, except, as they say, trailing clouds of glory, if that theory really is true after all and they do send some sort of chariot, possibly presently you will be on it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some observers have reported variable white clouds above that disk—most likely, clouds of methane crystals. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were caught with live fire among my books,” he said, emotion touching the edges of his voice like a hint of red sunset against the slate-grey clouds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sister read Doña Laura's note explaining that this was an offertory bank, and everyone got to work a penny in the cloud and watch the little figure rise. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma said, "You know that. God lives above the clouds." March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The clouds looked as if they were stumbling along before the wind, frightened. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Professor Trelawney. You may not have seen me before. I find that descending too often into the hustle and bustle of the main school clouds my Inner Eye.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Looking up they saw the clouds breaking and shredding; and then high in the south the moon glimmered out, riding in the flying wrack. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A vast winged shape passed over the moon like a black cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sun slides behind a cloud and I feel cold, immobilized on the threshold of the tunnel, unable to go any farther. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Hooke evidently saw clouds perfectly clearly when he asked, ‘What is the reason of the various Figure of the Clouds, undulated, hairy, crisped, coyled, confus’d, and the like?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Two days out to sea from Split, gray clouds swallowed the sky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Daddy pours water on a skillet at the sink, and the skillet responds with a loud sizzle and a white cloud. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As I did so, the devilfish saw my movement and let loose in the water a black cloud of liquid which instantly hid him from view. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

People's words hung like thought clouds in the cold air. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She found a narrow space between two great roots and crammed herself into it, peering over the buttress beside her and out toward the approaching dust cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rain ended abruptly, and the sun started to burn through the clouds as if it hadn’t just been pouring buckets a few minutes ago. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wind was gusting, rolling clouds across the sky; the view was spectacular, the city miniaturized, utterly dwarfed by the chapel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Another pocket of mist and clouds drifted up past the raft and over our heads. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then she cast a spell over all of us—a great cloud of sorrow, covering the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Like a genie swirling out of a bottle—like a cloud of gas—I was drifting upward out of my own body. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw water. Quite a lot of it, through the trees Emma’s face clouded. She said, “We’re trying to get away from the sea, not back to it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sun, already hidden by the clouds, finally set behind the western mountains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before they had finished breakfast the clouds had joined into an unbroken roof, and a straight grey rain came softly and steadily down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once, as they drifted silently past a massive white cloud, they saw on the top of it a group of strange, tall, wispy-looking things that were about twice the height of ordinary men. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were no clouds, no ships, no land in sight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A cloud of cigarette smoke hovered over the table, held captive by the closed windows and drapes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hoagland, the human black cloud, had noticed this too, mentioned it sometimes as indicative of our good camaraderie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can never seem to get rid of the clouds of flies. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few stagey cloud puffs were traveling from right to left. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to spread my arms like wings and fly right off that porch and out over the treetops and up into the clouds. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The wind ripped clouds across the face of the moon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It felt like it was going to snow, and the clouds hung down so low and white that I couldn’t even see the tops of the trees around me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As he speaks, the storm’s clouds finally reach us, and the sun disappears overhead. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thin and covered with burn scars like me, but his eyes have lost that clouded, tortured look. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A cloud of steam enveloped him and his wrinkled face could scarcely be seen peering into the cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

TJ shrugged, tossing his science book onto the floor of the metal closet, the smell of feet wafting up from it like a cloud of dust, unsettled. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The dark cloud has settled over my thoughts once again, and I’m only half-aware of what I do. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I stare at the clouds and envision Pa’s facing looking down at me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon slipped behind a rolling gray carpet of clouds, and the freshening gusts smelled wet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The mysterious newcomer sputtered dirt out of his mouth as he shook his head back and forth, and dirt puffed out of his dark hair like a cloud. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Behind them, I draw a small Junie holding a banana instead of a phone, a black cloud raining on her head. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the dazed feeling that had hung like a cloud around her for weeks began to clear away. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy adjusted her hijab in the front window, tucking in stray hairs—it was a nervous habit—while watching Zeitoun leave the driveway in a swirling grey cloud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In two or three weeks towering clouds with swollen purple bottoms would rise out of the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppet nods solemnly, clouds of red hair bobbing in waves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Shreds of high cloud were overhead, running on a stiff easterly wind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The cloud cover will keep British bombers away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Salty rain, spiced clouds, and a hint of sweetness from the stars. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He diverts off the path, feet disappearing into the drifting clouds of white. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds swept down and hung all day over the land and brushed the hilltops, and the winds blew shrilly at night. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not slept long when I was suddenly awakened by what I thought was thunder, but upon looking out from my shelter I saw that there were no clouds in the sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was getting dark, I realized, the clouds finally returning, piling up on the western horizon, creating an early sunset. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She sees signs in the patterns of clouds or in how a tree holds out its arms or in a feather she has found. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, clouds people’s memories of him, spinning and skewing—distorting—their portraits of him as a child. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was raining hard again, and great, bruise-coloured clouds hung low over the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The whole surface of the cloud was literally swarming with them, and there were hundreds more up above, climbing about on that monstrous crazy arch. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But doesn’t my smile light up those trees? Like the sun coming out from behind a cloud?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And we would watch their temper over the course of the day like farmers in Oklahoma watch rain clouds. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The cloud is getting bigger; it’s darkening, filling up my spirit and cell. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were startlingly gray, like storm clouds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And for a moment, the sun seemed to go behind the clouds. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His head poked from the cloud as he struggled to free himself, and Ayanna gasped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As we start to level out in altitude, the world disappears altogether into a blanket of clouds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was so clouded with blowing dirt that men waded through drifts a foot and a half deep. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Those storm clouds in her eyes don’t stand a chance. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the pavilion, the glowing flowers repeated the colors of the painted rainbow, and the white clouds above echoed the cresting waves of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Distant white clouds against a shock of blue sky? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything went white, and it took me a moment to realize we had flown into a cloud. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounding the plume seen in visible light is a vast cloud, bright in reflected ultraviolet sunlight and composed of very small particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bitter loneliness swept over Cole as tears clouded his vision. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Little clouds scurrying in formation, line upon line. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, following a moving cloud with my eyes, I asked, “Do you ever wonder what we’ll be doing ten or twenty years from now? Or where we’ll be living?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the wetness in the clouds condensed into tiny drops half mist and half rain, which floated downward rather than fell, making a soft rustling patter among the millions of needles. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stretched her fingers toward mine, and we held hands as the plane rose above the clouds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been walking long when Bronwyn noticed a cloud of dust rising on the road behind us, way in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about clouds and you and got all sad. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As the car pulled away, my eyes were so clouded by tears I couldn’t look back. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When it clouded, they pounded her temples with the rocks in their fists until she was dead. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priestess in her tom robes, impaled upon a stake and attended by a cloud of glistening green flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I turn left toward the church called House of Canaan, and the club on the other corner is now as clear as the sun behind the parting clouds. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Below our hill, the lights of Oakland would gleam like a cloud of fireflies and the wrinkling waters of the bay would turn to quicksilver under the moon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He buys a notebook and draws up plans for cloud chambers, ion detectors, X-ray goggles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Somebody finally acknowledges the cloud hanging over the kitchen, which for some reason is like acknowledging me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, near sunset, the clouds thickened and boiled up into an anvil thun- derhead that flickered with silent lightning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided when and where the clouds would rain upon the land and when they would stop. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was very small, and perched not atop a cloud but on a very large tower constructed entirely from stacked-up railroad ties, the whole thing set smack in the middle of a grassy plateau. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I look up, hoping to see the stars, but there must be clouds because the sky is as black as the sea. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them the great horde might tear the earth and muddy the rivers and send up clouds of choking dust, but the fields ahead of them were always green and verdant. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had stopped noticing the fantastic cloud shapes now and was thinking longingly of the train miles below, where you could buy ice-cold pumpkin juice from a trolley pushed by a plump witch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The lady with the cloud hair is my teacher? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The ether smell that surrounded him like a cloud had lulled me back to sleep. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whole clouds settled back on him as soon as Pima stepped away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For hours she watched the rapid sequence of textures that flapped like streamers outside her window: vast latifimdios, provinces of royal palms, black mountains encircled with clouds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it flashing in her dark eyes like the clouds of fireflies that made summer nights frantic with light. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The njuzu girls rose to the surface of the water and looked expectantly to the east, from where the storm clouds would come. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the phone went dead, the cloud of depression began to creep over me again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The clouds vanished southwards and the sky was opened, high and blue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tiny tendrils break off from her color cloud and blend with his. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere short of the clouds, it exploded into four red letters that sizzled the daytime sky. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The angel’s head was turned, and his sweet face seemed to be watching over the audience from the clouds. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me, his eyes once more clouding with confusion. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had a well-trimmed beard, marbled gray and black like a storm cloud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I slow down, kicking up a cloud of dust. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Robin shouted as she plunged down the dune, her legs lost in a cloud of sand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Day 615 The colossal weather systems and changing clouds of Jupiter, spinning in space before us, have us hypnotized. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still warm; there are clouds of midges under the trees and the sunshine is streaming through the leaves, bathing the path in an oddly subterranean light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though his dactyl was swooping wildly through the clouds, they weren’t far back. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The villagers waited patiently as the sun painted the dawn clouds over Resthaven, and gradually Tendai became aware that all was not right with the situation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s head clouded with all the things she didn’t know and didn’t know how to ask. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky were aglow: pink and purple, maroon and gold, pearl and saffron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But to the northwest, in the heart of the city, a cumulus cloud was in formation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If you see clouds, expect rain. If you see cracks, lift your feet. If you see houses, expect them to be the same houses every day, because houses don't move. They don't change." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clouds scudded in front of the moon, and for a moment Shadow could not be certain whether it was the clouds or the moon that was moving. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He could see smoke ahead, a long white cloud, low, like fog, on the horizon. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun escaping from the breaking clouds, as it sank towards the hills they had left, was now shining brightly again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted the lid and a cloud of pungent, bitter steam hit me in the face. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I think it clouded their vision. We spent more time talking about the athletic program than the curriculum.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over us hangs a dense cloud of smoke. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was already beginning to set beyond new black clouds which were rising in the west, and men came out into the open to watch the last sunlight flame across the fields. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A meter’s worth of precious copper tore loose in his hands and dust clouds enveloped him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The small, secure weight of tools along his belt, the smell of intermittent rain, and the crystalline brilliance of the clouds at dusk: these are the only times when Volkheimer feels marginally whole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A patch of sunlight has broken through the clouds, and I can hear the hiss of the ice melting. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We agreed not to make the announcement until all the details —” “Oh details!” said Bagman, waving the word away like a cloud of midges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the great dark between the stars there are clouds of gas and dust and organic matter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the wind answered with its customary howl, which I could not translate, the rain was busy with its endless plunge, and the clouds were in a hurry to be somewhere else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And there is also something else that surrounds us, the black cloud as well as the enormity. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their only source of water for much of the year was Feral’s clouds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was about to turn off into the woods when the first truck sped toward him, tossing up a cloud of red dust and catching him in its headlights. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Far, far away, in the South the clouds could be dimly seen as remote grey shapes, rolling up, drifting: morning lay beyond them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And out of the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist, but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The driven clouds broke away; the sun turned the branches to gold. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They will stream by squid, sea turtles, clouds of shrimp, schools of shimmering fish, and enter the vivid turquoise world just below the surface. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The chorus of wild voices grew louder and louder, shaking the robot’s body, rattling the ship, booming across the island and up into the clouds, and then their voices gradually died down to silence. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So when Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west—that cloud field of the sky—to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon kept vanishing behind the scudding clouds. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The waves subside; the clouds begin to break apart. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Darius, who chases girls with firecrackers or a stick that touched a rat and thinks he’s tough, today pointed up because the world was full of clouds, the kind like pillows. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green mountains here feel like they’re breathing, like the mist all around us is the air they exhale to the clouds above. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The first to break out of the cloud on the far side of the lake would have the advantage, and that might mean survival, or it might mean a successful kill. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lies in a cloud of dust, wheezing and grasping his throat. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The sky suddenly darkened further, and, as I looked over my shoulder to glare at the offending cloud, I realized with a shock that two men were walking quietly twenty feet behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a fair breeze and no clouds in sight and it seemed to be perfect for a night sail. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the edge of the roof and saw Auri standing there, a silhouette against the night sky, her fine hair made a cloud around her head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pong kept hoping that they would turn away from the pillowy clouds of smoke, but their path to the Mud House was taking them straight for it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I see anger flash in her eyes, but beneath it, a shadow of fear clouds her gaze. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the bishop’s wife who had said to me that day I called, “I shall never forget her, dressed all in white, with that cloud of dark hair.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Greenhouses covered the hills here, their panes painted white for protection against the sun that was now hidden behind clouds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One could guess at the movement of the sun by the progress of a light patch among the clouds. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

To her, the darkness across the river was a cloud of endless unknowing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The train is unremarkable as it chugs across the countryside, puffing clouds of grey smoke into the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Under the stairway lights, you could see the dark smoke billowing, moving by in clouds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds overhead parted from time to time and let the brilliant moonlight through—so bright that Malcolm almost had to shade his eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It seemed wisest for Otto and me to leave during the night, but with clouds shielding the sliver of moon, the dark was near absolute. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know it's time to move on, but the smoke has clouded my thoughts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the clouds I see vague ridges of mountains and dark forests. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It did indeed become very dark again; for the moon passed westward into thick cloud, and Pippin could not see anything a few feet away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Wherever it was, the entrance to it was a great gate of clouds kept by the Seasons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then his eyes clouded over and his lips fell into a frown. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ridges of white cloud now covered all the sky above my head, and the sun was hidden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shooting across the clouds like a crossbow in the sky speeds a peregrine falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some have crystal balls that cloud up as we pass. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Someone slammed into him from behind and then disappeared into the cloud. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud has formed between me and the dream of running again. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Even as Penelope looked, a cloud passed over the moon and the light was snuffed out. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When her arms wrapped around him, his eyes clouded, like he’d been waiting for her shoulder. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black autumn clouds were behind them, and her hollow ribs stood out like flake-white against their indigo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Droppeth thine soccer ball as thunder from the clouds Those are words to make you shiver, too. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I do a few stretches to warm up, thinking about the clouds. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The sun was under a cloud and the water was dark and smooth and very cold. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever another truck passes, I have to wind up the window fast so that the baby won’t breathe in the clouds of dust. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a breeze and clouds was floating by it felt like the earth was spinning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds darkened and the rain swirled faster. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sun had broken through the clouds, and all of a sudden the water was glistening and shining as if someone had poured paint into it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mini asked if they could avoid going through the clouds, because she didn’t want to catch a cold. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The real world was here and now: this clearing, where the clouds overhead were thin enough to remind her what a blue sky might look like. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The police boats drew closer, their motors buzzing like a cloud of hornets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Reed squinted at the clouds, bristling with rain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The clouds grow darker and bigger in the sky and seconds later he feels droplets of rain on his arms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, infrared observations have revealed a number of likely preplanetary disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust around some of the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa burst out of there in a cloud of hornets, trying to swat and hold his pants up at the same time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A cloud of mist hung in the sky like the aftereffects of a spell. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She’d fold him into her apron, wrapping him in a cloud of lavender, and say the same thing—“Well, come see me, then!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now all Arm could see was an ocean of cloud, glowing with the last rays of sunset. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A dark gray cloud was rolling straight at him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s cotton balls and Kleenex, so I could make a cloud costume, but that’s really dumb. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I am so happy to see the sun again, and the clouds in the sky like shag wool rugs, and people who aren’t sick. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“While my parents worried about the threatening clouds of war, I believed my Hitler Youth teaching that war was a necessary cleansing process for the human race.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted, for his part, knew that Burnham had been a leading force in driving buildings into the clouds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was going in and out of clouds. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky separate and release a scatter of flurries. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re not alone,” I say, and I turn my gaze back to the racing gray clouds. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

‘The Eye it is. There’s a lot of cloud, which is good and bad.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, an armored giant struggled under the weight of a swirling funnel cloud—Adas, holding up the sky. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stood up on the cloud spire and called "Halloo!" several times, as loudly as he could. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their route was taking them well to the right of the cloud, to the east of Dunkirk, toward the Belgian border. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Monday went by like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I thought about my dream of Rachel’s sketch—dark clouds closing on the city, an army gathered around the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A teenage girl stood outside, listlessly sweeping at a cloud of yellow butterflies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Storm clouds gather as we explore Paris's famous university, and a sudden downpour catches our group by surprise. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a second, Sefia swore she saw storms, great roiling clouds rolling with thunder, and lightning cracking overhead. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the moon slipped through a cloud and dived into the bloody stream, filling it with a sheet of stars. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Apollo enveloped him in a cloud and carried him to sacred Pergamos, the holy place of Troy, where Artemis healed him of his wound. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lana looked over at Jones, who was sweeping out the booths in a cloud of cigarette smoke and dust, and said, “Put the record on.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bearing this burden he stands forever before the place that is wrapped in clouds and darkness, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood, coughing from the cloud of gunpowder smoke that was rolling across the banks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was low with clouds, a storm coming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a torrent of sand, looking like a rain cloud, that came in from the northwest and turned the place so dark in the afternoon light that the street lamps suddenly started glowing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched a cloud of smoke swirl around a girl in a floppy hat. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light spilled through a crack in a red-rimmed cloud, and I walked toward it along a path that led from the honey house into the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of dust hid the road behind us. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing steadily; clouds obscured the sun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally they make you feel floaty and think of puffy clouds and hear harps, but right now they look just plain scared. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A blaze of orange light outlines a giant cloud. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had become a blind race into darkness, under a moon drowned in heavy clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

A cloud of tiny dunlin, more compact than starlings, turned in the air with the noise of a train. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a loud clap of thunder echoed from the dark clouds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As I observed the effect of this leak, it was as if clouds had suddenly opened,” Ellsberg later said of this turning point in his life. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the boardwalk amusement park, Kevin and I rode a few rides and ate funnel cake, but the upcoming court date hung over my head like a dark cloud. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were mountains of manure and over them mushroom clouds of flies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a cloud covered the sun, but worse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mamma bustled out of the room in a cloud of sandalwood perfume to open the door. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was bright, and the clouds seemed closer, as if they were weighed down by unspent rain. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m writing it in the journal with the clouds on the cover that Mom gave me for Christmas. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She stared through the clouds of dust at the cafeteria, which was still standing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her visions of city life clouded—what did she know about places like New York City and Boston? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She put the spyglass carefully in her pocket and hooked her arms over the branch in front, gazing at the sky, the moon, the scudding clouds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gray clouds obscured the sun that day, and outside the cabin window she saw that mist still covered the ground. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sun was relentless and eternal: There was neither wisp of cloud nor whiff of breeze for relief. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gray day, the clouds so low and heavy and ready to rain that they begged, Ralph thought, to be punched. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spots on the sun reminded him of clouds; he knew they were not clouds, but they bore the same relationship to the sun’s surface as clouds do to the Earth’s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The Lord rideth,” he said, low and threatening, “upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rising, I could see the dusty cloud of horns and backs trampling through our corn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we look at the planet in the morning or evening skies, we are seeing sunlight reflected off the clouds of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon glows behind a haze of clouds. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It buzzed a little bit, and I had a brief vision of it experiencing a non-passive failure and exploding into a billowing cloud of smoke and motor particles, but then it got up to speed. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They shot out into the black night and reflected against the low clouds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sky was a grainy video, fuzzy streaks of clouds against a speckled, hyper-blue background. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life he was studying a helpless Bull Meecham and thoughts began to gather in storm clouds as his father’s face turned toward him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above Sam they opened their wings and flew in tandem down the mountain over the river, up into the clouds and back to Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He just looked at me through the cloud of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud passed across my mother’s eyes, and I knew that she could not remember. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root’s breath fanned before him in icy clouds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before dementia clouded her mind, Dottie used to sit at the counter and watch for Bobby to come around that corner on his way home from work. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At this moment that unmanning thunder cloud, the aegis, Athena’s shield, took form aloft in the great hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard was made of clouds, constantly popping with lightning and raining down on the god’s chest, soaking his sand-colored toga. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside on the square it had stopped raining and the moon was trying to get through the clouds. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But it couldn’t have been smoke: it was drifting against the wind that tore at the clouds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The clouds were parting, and through the dark gap a figure was speeding down: small at first, but as it came closer second by second, the form became bigger and more imposing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I saw our futures unfolding, all pink clouds and cacti and bright sun and forever. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your hot temper clouds your judgment. But let’s move on to this other souvenir of yours.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stand up, hold out my arm and give him two fingers but he’s already disappearing behind big clouds of smoke. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But as the sun came up there were only streaks of clouds in the sky. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he glanced back, a miniature mushroom cloud erupted from the middle of the bridge, rings of fire washing outward, and a pair of voices—Mars and Ares—screamed, “Noooo!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All day long it had been springlike; but now dark clouds were slowly swallowing the sun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back and took measure of the clouds. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two seats over, a fat bald-headed man is snoring with his mouth open, releasing an invisible cloud of halitosis. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching my sister walk along the path winding away from our village later that day, I was reminded of the yunka stranger and how the clouds had hovered about him on this same trail. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head back and focus on the clouds gathering above my head, heavy with rain, dark with rain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Some of them sped across the waters like rain clouds on the way to work. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then I stepped next to her and braced myself on one knee—holding up my hands—and touched the cold, heavy clouds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Men say that its timbers reach up for the clouds, and that its golden roofs can be seen a day's march away, brighter than the sun itself." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath a translucent scrim of clouds at eight o’clock in the morning on November 1, 1938, Maryland Racing Commission chairman Jervis Spencer stepped out onto the smoky brown oval of Pimlico. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he flapped his wings, a cloud of grey ash filled the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The peach was also just below the level of the cloud, and it was heading directly toward the rainbow, traveling rather fast. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Which isn’t so odd, because the clouds above rush their way through the sky, too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sky above Meereen was the color of corpse flesh, dull and white and heavy, a mass of unbroken cloud from horizon to horizon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From now on, I will walk with my head in the clouds and dream of when people will stop judging books by their cover. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the clouds outside her window, smoky thickets drifting by, and thought how fragile they were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then all the Tartars turned their rifles up and blazed into the dark, firing at nothing, at shadows, at clouds, and more and more arrows rained down on them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the two teams finally took the field—all wearing long pants despite the heat—and play began, it became difficult to follow the ball in the clouds of dust kicked up by the players. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What you hear is not genuine. She makes clouds with one hand, rain with the other. She is trying to trick you, so you will do anything for her.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said a cloud was a very big bird. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped down from the rock, and picking up his grey cloak wrapped it about him: it seemed as if the sun had been shining, but now was hid in cloud again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Frost had begun to sparkle on the dry sedge and a cloud trailed across the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking bitterly of his birthday, he attacked the mirror with the cloth, watching his face appear as out of a cloud. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thick in the air, weaving in and out among the soaring heights of the mountaintops. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He said there’s a black cloud around you and— ALBUS: A black cloud? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A gasp of steam erupted from an air vent beside the tipple, and I followed the cloud skyward, watched the water droplets disperse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each tree stood in a space of its own, and the branches zigzagged against the clouds and sky like arms reaching out for heaven. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though clouded with blood, Guy’s eyes were still bulging open. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then Vonetta said in Ma Charles’s voice, her tambourine-shaking voice, “Cast not thy rod through the clouds,” and then added in Big Ma’s voice, “A mercy, Lord.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The convoy of vans and trucks sped away in a huge cloud of dust, with several of the black policemen dangling from the side and rear doors like rags on a line. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was now completely swallowed by the clouds of black smoke. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

You blinked sulkily in the sunshine that had briefly broken through the clouds. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as to the land.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thunder kept threatening like a big old empty cloud clearing its throat. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds were just starting to clear, like cotton-wool tufts reluctantly letting go of one another. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat side by side on a thick, white cumulus cloud the size of a small town. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly giddy and grinning, feeling electric, like a sunbreak bursting through a storm cloud. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silendy on the people below. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few big billows of clouds floated ahead of us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Still, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud of dark smoke grew denser as they ran down the hall, which was streaked with soot and slick with water. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The clouds were darkening, and he thought he felt a raindrop on one cheek. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a bolt of lightning slicing through the clouds, my words jolt them and leave them frozen in their seats. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the west the clouds were still dark, but I said nothing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of fruit flies rose up in the air and settled again. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Little ridges of white cloud formed in the western sky and the sun became pallid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of angry flies rises from it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The rain held off, but dark clouds scudded low, and the wind was searching. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

If not for that, she surely would’ve been lost in the clouds by now. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The clouds were still low and misty, pressing in upon them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And even though I am not him, I understand, and even without the Link connecting our emotions right now, I can feel the vicious, unending shame that clouds his heart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bats dive and swoop through clouds of gnats, and the insects scatter and re-form once more. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Millard was right—the skies were quiet, the battle had ended, but rolling drifts of bomb smoke still mixed with the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then his rage Seeped into the room, clouding the crystal and softening the starched tablecloth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, clouds scudded along the horizon, and a half-moon suddenly emerged, brightening the road ahead. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Where? I don’t see anything but some nasty-looking clouds out there.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes, absolutely. Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps, and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes. I believe in Something with a capital S. Always have.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It began to drizzle, as if all that flying metal had riven holes in the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He blew a cloud of smoke in the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sun slanted through the clouds above, as if a spotlight were aimed on the bird. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was a mere drizzle, slowing every second, the sky brighter through the clouds. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It became bright from the minute it surfaced from behind the clouds, its golden rays darkening my eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sun was hidden behind a giant puffy white cloud. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Piper looked up at the clouds and wondered if her mother, Aphrodite, was somehow influencing him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She squinches her eyes and sees them, the clouds, creeping over some low-lying hills. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The clouds are moving furiously fast, blocking any moonbeams from touching the earth. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melisandre gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

After weeks of sleeping on the ground, the feather bed beneath her back was like clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They made regular checks on the train as they flew farther and farther north, each dip beneath the clouds showing them a different view. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Around us were cream-puff clouds, their edges outlined by the faint glow of a crescent moon.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say, “One cloud feels lonely”: and indeed it is true that the appearance of a single cloud often means that the sky will soon be overcast. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I gazed up at its sheer cliffs, tops disappearing in a reef of ghostly clouds, the idea that this was a magical place didn’t seem so ridiculous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I push through cloud banks, follow faint tracks, catch the scent of cinnamon, of dill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She blows dust off the surface of a clouded path. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The cab peeled out in a cloud of exhaust. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A dark cloud passed from her face as she eased off a tight shoe under the table. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived one morning, in a great fluttering cloud, and settled themselves on trees around the fields. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The threat of snow lifted; the clouds began to break and the light grew broader. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The daylight was quickly running away to hide in the clouds. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two tall towers touching the clouds, reflecting sunshine, shimmering rainbows and diamond-shaped light. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their eyes left Father and came to rest on Ruth May inside the drenched cloud of netting on the table. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent over to take the ball out of the cup, and the sun went behind a cloud. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear and bright, with a few thin, high clouds barely clinging to existence, accidental brush strokes on a blue canvas. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was painted blue like the sky, with drifting clouds and tiny whizzing jet planes with white trails that crisscrossed in the clouds. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The separator swallowed the bundles, the golden straw blew out in a golden cloud, the wheat streamed golden-brown out of the spout, while the men hurried. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a jar of seeds, and a cloud of birds fluttered down from the trees to surround her. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The truck stopped, and the dust cloud drifted past it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She draws things that aren’t real: clouds that smile and cars that swim. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes, a cloud bottle streamed across the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It churns out rolling clouds of billowing smoke, a fat black rope that coils over the cars behind it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the same time it continued to boil, forming thick, low clouds, dark as tar, caustic, and ready to burst into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Virgil imagined a bright purple sky with thick blue clouds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A tired half hour later, he could see his own house, the roof of the barn canting as if leaning a bent elbow on a dark line of cloud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the middle of the afternoon, a cloud drifted across the sky and blocked out the sun. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The naming of clouds was a great event in the history of meteorology, after which much more serious discussion and understanding were possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black dog. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds raced across the sky, veiling the moon and altering the shadows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She soars toward the clouds while Axel and Ray watch in absolute awe. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the dim light of the street lamp Bigger saw her eyes cloud and her lips tremble. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the beautiful sky, a few white clouds passing through the blue. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I skip about the pink cloud that came out of Benny’s mouth. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

As I opened it up a cloud of foreign words blew out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

That day, the crowd roared with excitement as the horsemen on the field bel­lowed their battle cries and jostled for the carcass in a cloud of dust. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was held back by rain clouds the morning Frightful saw Sam and Mole come home from their wanderings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

So you stand there, and you squelch your toes, and you raise your arms up above your head, and you watch the clouds get sucked back into ducts in the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The sun goes behind a cloud and I shiver. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then they march on, their song swirling up through the window like a bright, pulsing cloud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My feet touch the ground, and I lift my face to the sky, to all those bending branches and drifting clouds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen clouds make pointed angel wings that stream past the sunset, but they shred into clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it seemed like that might not ever happen; once the sun set the moon feebly took over, lighting the low thick clouds and setting them faintly aglow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On well-grassed flats the blooded Herefords grazed, only looking up as we drove by in a cloud of dust. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust was in his nostrils, sharp and terrible, and the feet of the saints, shaking the floor beneath him, raised small clouds of dust that filmed his mouth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an eternity of cloud and wind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But not before I had seen orange steel poking through thick ground clouds below. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flung the dirt back over his neck and shoulders in great clouds of dust. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the far south, from a high line of transparent golden clouds, yellow and pink rain wisps dangled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock, the rain had stopped and the sky was a cur­dled gray burdened with lumps of clouds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving in the late afternoon, Sydelle Pulaski looked up and saw only the dim, warped reflections of treetops and drifting clouds in the glass face of Sunset Towers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then a dark cloud appeared on the horizon. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His beard covered so much of his face he seemed always to be peering over a gray cloud. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The misty morning had cleared and through the clouds a bit of sun made a narrow glint of light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pale, her blue eyes clouded with an unwonted melancholy, she sat in a corner, cut off from those who surrounded her by an emotion which they did not share. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined a great anvil-shaped cloud forming over southeast London and hot air rising in convection currents. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out a few more shapes in the clouds before he explained that this year he didn’t actually have a birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the children did not taunt him or shout at him as they should for he carried a little cloud of fear about with him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slam the door shut, and my dad speeds off down the road, a cloud of dust settling behind him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Anything that dimmed Mark Antony’s popularity or clouded his reputation played right into Octavian’s hands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The clouds parted, and the lightning’s true source revealed itself—not lightning at all, no, but fireworks bursting in arterial gushes of blue and crimson. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the jellyfish drifted past like a poisonous cloud. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Little gnats cloud round us in near invisible swarms and I keep having to bat ’em away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In front of him, the green cloud of gas floated between him and the herd. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I look up at the sky, I see an endless field of churning clouds, jet-black and furious, illuminated by lightning. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Gregor thought it might be more bats, but on closer inspection he saw it was a cloud of tiny black moths. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sun, only a mass of thick grey cloud, lowering over the countryside, and still, close, thundery air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Thin strata cloud, white and harmless, floated in the southeast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a black night, with a thin sliver of moon appearing and disappearing as the clouds blew past. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The mare was already half obscured in a cloud of dust. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wherever here was, it was not locked in the unchanging clouded gray that blanketed the Kingdom. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His tears erupted in bubbling pools and clouds of steam. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up, skimming clouds over the surface of the full moon, which was hung just to make us feel powerful and strong. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

From Muspelheim came fiery clouds that turned the ice to mist. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds against the evening sky were the gray of rats, and the air was not damp but dank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky cleared and the waves seemed to flee with the clouds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was blazing down upon the ship, and the clouds were puffs of cotton in the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester’s, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dust would billow in the air as they went by, like golden clouds. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The molasses hovered in the air like a black, roiling cloud. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The plane flew out of the clouds and into the clear blue sky. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bet if I reached out, it’d be as soft as a cloud, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It was about the size of a person. It slid down the far wall and was gone. A dusty cloud of white.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It's not like he would be floating in on a cloud, or anything like that, but the man standing before them could have been any man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Not a cat, a kitten. And isn’t he the cutest? Just a sweet pile of fluff. He’s like a tiny cloud.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The praetor’s dark eyes turned as gray as storm clouds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An alarm began to sound and suddenly they disappeared in a cloud of white steam. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Branches snapped and fell, sending up clouds of sparks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We stand on the escarpment for a long time, staring up at the cloud through which Frightful sped to freedom. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was reflected in the Sabine for a moment, then heavy clouds darkened the sky again. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mermaid clouds drifted over the glebe, over the cockerel tree, over the Malvern Hills. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When clouds and snow squalls made a flight impossible, Ngawang was loaded into a basket and, under Hunt’s care, carried down the glacier to Pheriche on the backs of Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A faint, gray light seeped into the room, as if the moon was escaping from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy clouds loomed above, but behind the clouds the moon was nearly full and lent a faint radiance to the whole sky. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The winds flee before her and the storm clouds; sweet flowers embroider the earth; the waves of the sea laugh; she moves in radiant light. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds cleared then, and tears shone on her face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Babou stopped in front of the house, but the cloud of smoke kept going, enveloping the minivan in a black shroud before dissipating into a thin trail of intermittent puffs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But Stella focused on kicking up clouds from the reddish dirt at her feet instead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You need a bigger gate,” Tormund complained to Jon with a sour look up at the sky, where a few clouds had blown in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I shiver hearing the storm clouds rumble in the distance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean my head against the car window, watching the scenery zip by, a tableau of dark green fir trees dotted with snow, wispy strands of white fog, and heavy gray storm clouds up above. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just as he started to pull back onto the highway, six small black clouds scudded off the nearby foothills and proceeded to attack him with rain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel saw Leo, unconscious—or dead—falling through the clouds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stamping her feet on the platform, unsettling clouds of settled station-filth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the flight home, twenty thousand feet above clouds that were ten thousand feet above the ground, Gus said, “I used to think it would be fun to live on a cloud.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

All the way up past the birds, past the clouds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the first of June, airplanes flyover the city, extremely high, crawling through the stratus clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Huge gray mountains, steep and rocky, rise up into the clouds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When clouds piled up in the late afternoon, she came down on a key off the shore of Belize, caught food, rested, and went on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't know whether to be offended at his presumptions or relieved the storm clouds seemed to be parting, revealing blue skies and sunlight. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Friendship drones through the clouds, following the length of the Rift Valley, and Monet slumps back in the seat, and now he seems to be dozing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma’s been saying I got my head in the clouds. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then you would zoom upward into the sky, and look up at the clouds, and the rope would twist and you would twist and turn with the rope. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the dim light, in her white gown, she glows like a moon in cloud. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few seconds later the balloon passed out of the cloud altogether and, still rising rapidly, soared on into the heavens. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A tyrannosaurus stomped into the yard, ducking forward so it could fit under the gate and then rearing up to its full height and stomping up mountain clouds of dust on either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Globes of thinly blown sugar sit on each plate and must be broken open in order to access the clouds of cream within. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His entries were uploaded to the cloud, which they could access—and did. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They called and squawked and swirled in great clouds before descending on the ruined village, chirping and fussing and circling near. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He seemed to dance in the air, and his happiness made her feel as light as the clouds around her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Frey’s face was clouded and troubled, and Skirnir hesitated to approach him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were no clouds and the air still smelled cool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The spectacle of the Transvice dissolving a person like a cloud of smoke caught in the wind wasn’t even what weighed on his thoughts the heaviest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It ballooned in great dark rolls above, and beneath it drew a long trailing skirt of rain, and as they looked the cloud rumbled and flashed fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know me, Strange the dreamer, head in the clouds.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As he worked puffs of wind brought little clouds of dust swirling about him. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The words float out of TJ’s mouth like clouds, all fluffy and thick. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a shadow clouding Papa’s eyes, a shadow that had been in Jaja’s eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the overcast had broken, and before dawn the thin moon shining between brown-edged clouds shed a weak light on the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the clouds and the swirls and the shimmers and the lights and the ache and the buzz and the shaking and the coughing, I’m thinking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They smoked in silence for a while, and the sun shone on them; slanting into the valley from among white clouds high in the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stared, mouth open, as the wagon disappeared into a cloud of dust. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But above the roof of the cabin, the hills were veiled with rain clouds. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Vapor from the Spirit Bear’s breath puffed in tiny clouds from its wet black nose. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Along this they went westward, with the city ever climbing up like a green cloud upon their left; and as the night deepened more lights sprang forth, until all the hill seemed afire with stars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tilted her masked face at the sky, as if the clouds could tell her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It rose flapping its wings and disappeared into the clouds, to a send-off of applause, whistlings, handkerchiefs, drumrolls, and the sprinkling of holy water. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever you see pictures of saints, men or women, they’re always looking up to heaven where there are clouds filled with little fat angels carrying flowers or harps giving praise. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The usual cloud that turned the air brown and silty, but this time it failed to dissipate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he stepped into his father’s study the next morning to begin the first formal day of tutelage, Turner was about as grim as a dark cloud lowering itself over a Sunday-school picnic. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My brain waves started whirling around the big hollow in my head, like molecules in a cumulonimbus cloud that’s about to burst. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the stars shone bright between silver-seeded drifts of cloud. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not a cloud passed unnoticed, not a wind blew untested. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Changing Woman could help get rid of this bland lifelessness that was now taking the shade of a gray cloud. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They no longer had their sharp good humor, but had become clouded and visionary. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't help it...when the chariot rolled out of the dust cloud, I had to look up. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It may have been the memory of my father—open- collared, his tie loosened and stained, his eyes clouded and his breath heavy, glass in hand—that made me a teetotaler. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally floated in silence, looking up at the sky, barely able to see the clouds through her anger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Its tall steeple was a pyramid of fire, the flames licking the undersides of the clouds that scuttled above. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hung over the river, sliding in and out of clouds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a merciless blue, without a wisp of cloud in sight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Think like this. Can’t you see yourself up there? Up in the clouds somewhere like some kind of bird?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Omakayas was careful not to startle him or gaze too long into his mean, clouded eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Any time it rained in Bali, the clouds cracked open and fat drops of laughing gas fell down on everyone. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As he had the realization, a cloud slid beyond the moon and pale light illuminated the river. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walked home under gray clouds whose undersides had been shredded. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Eleanor could stare at the clouds just as easily in honors classes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The wind was high up and took the clouds across the moon. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

All day it had been hidden, but now it burst from the clouds. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

My green cloud entwines with his silver one, and I feel the recent tension between us lift a little. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Their breathing formed a single cloud of steam that drifted up, floating away over the banks of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took one long, big breath, and let it out slow to cloud the bus window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

High John waved his hand, and like fog lifting when the sun rose in the sky, the clouds faded away into nothing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was darker now, completely clouded over. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Thick clouds obscured the sky, so there was neither moon nor Northern Lights; but by peering closely, the children could make out the deep trail Iorek Byrnison had plowed in the snow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A thick gray-white cloud of steam hovered ahead. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ivy could draw it, the loneliness, a wispy cloud the color of a clear sky just after sunset, all deep blues and purples. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The teacher pats her cloud hair and then looks around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

As the first sliver of a crescent moon came peeking through the clouds, they finally stumbled into the village by the lake. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the wood seemed a deal darker than it had a moment before, as if a cloud had passed before the sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a picture of one blowing up in the Physics book, mushroom cloud and all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back and forth across the blue. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The flies began to torment them, and the air was full of clouds of tiny midges that crept up their sleeves and breeches and into their hair. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They did not attack him, but the cloud of them was so thick that he had to hack a passage through with his sword. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

But occasionally a passing star makes a gravitational flurry and commotion in the cometary cloud, and a group of comets finds itself in highly elliptical orbits, plunging toward the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really bright, with the blue of the ocean and the white of the clouds being what you noticed most. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hogwarts Express, a gleaming scarlet steam engine, was already there, clouds of steam billowing from it, through which the many Hogwarts students and parents on the platform appeared like dark ghosts. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I think she’s going to crash headfirst, but she plonks herself onto the dirt and slides down on her backside in a cloud of dust and a scattering of pebbles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girl stumbles into the sunlight, where she dissolves into a cloud of ashes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As the doors slide open, people tumble out in a cloud of smoke they’ve brought from the Nut. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, the sun dipped behind a hazy cloud bank and the world really did darken a few shades. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

These were wooded and there were clouds coming down from them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds lolled on the blue air above their heads. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rush, rush, rush whispered the wind, the sky, the clouds, the trees. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Like people trying to find pictures in the clouds, those lucky enough to see Mir did the same when looking at the space station. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A thick white cloud cover hid the sky, and the air smelled of snow—the first of the year, earlier than usual. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was high in the sky and while there were distant, fluffy white clouds on the horizon, the sky above her head was a deep, untroubled blue. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Her face, despite its cloud of annoyance, maintained a brightness in those aged eyes and a hint of a smile in that flat, wide mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The rising sun was buttering the clouds, the sea was royal blue, and dolphins darted in and out of the water, weaving between the rocks with absolute grace. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A gray nervous cloud was scurrying eastward, searching for trees on which to rain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Nothing, sire. I see the evening sky above us, and clouds below us." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Tycho had just completed the construction of another very large sextant, and whenever the clouds cleared in the nights that followed, he concentrated his attention on the new star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He grins and sketches a cloud above the subway train. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Sun God was battling the large clouds that now filled the sky world, and I didn’t take it as a good omen when the first faint flickers of his rising body were abruptly covered. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Once there had been a man who cursed the rain clouds, a man of monstrous dreams. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having a cloud of venomous coldness where her heart used to be changed everything for Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Paris himself, who had not fought at all except to throw his spear, she caught up in a cloud and took back to Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dusty cloud behind them, Riker scrambled to his feet, clutching his wounded shoulder. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened, the clouds lowered, and the wind blew like a charging buck. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flying so high that not even the clouds could keep up. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes have been replaced by storm clouds, and she untangles her limbs from mine. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rage is doubling, multiplying, filling my vision like a black cloud. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She cradled her body close, and ran with Will under the cloud of dragonflies, stumbling and falling more than once, but holding the Lady gently against her heart all the time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes for a second and see her watching us both as the plane rises higher and higher into the clouds. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone walked so quickly here, nobody saying much to anyone else, all around them a cloud of commotion. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba appeared in the doorway at the very instant when the house snapped in half like an eggshell and collapsed in a cloud of dust, flattening him beneath a pile of rubble. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed some open rock, and since it had become much warmer, I was glad when the clouds hid the sun and dropped the temperature. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Protectorate itself was a dismal place—bad air, bad water, sorrow settling over the roofs of its houses like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard the job assigned to her, she could always pause for a moment in her work and watch the slow drift of the clouds overhead, study the swift flight of the birds. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not immediately apparent why until the clouds of grey begin swirling through the green of her gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For what they now saw, swirling and twisting directly over their heads, was an immense black cloud, a terrible, dangerous, thundery-looking thing that began to rumble and roar even as they were staring at it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

This morning the mountain was dusted with snow, and the blue-gray clouds were unwinding from the peaks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always a cloud looming over our school days—the possibility of war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They could look at a peak or a bird or a cloud, at a stone right in front of them, or even down into a canyon behind them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But almost as quickly as it had begun the noise stopped and the dark cloud moved away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a heavy, suffocating blanket of grey cloud, but without promise of rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Raising a cloud of dirt and debris that blackens the sky. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I turned to see the napalm explode and then roll up the hill in a billowing cloud. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud came over him, and he had a lot of trouble getting the next question out. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s humid air colliding and pushing energy upward into the clouds,” he insists. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She filled the sky with rolling silver clouds. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he stopped and waited, letting the minutes tick away as he planned his next progression, gliding like a cloud’s shadow cast upon the ground by the moon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The gritty, bacony, syrupy scent drifts into my room, and I soon forget about the drunken cloud that surrounds Pop Pop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My mom told me once that colors like that don’t belong in the clouds. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Heavy clouds hung low without offering rain; the air beneath was grimy with smoke. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even with my head in the clouds instead of the flames—and certainly not in any sort of captain-mode—we Firebirds torch them. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Outside the sky was full of lights, blue and red reflecting off the clouds and the trees and the sides of our cottage. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

People prayed for rain and used powerful magic to bring on the heavy purple clouds that would save the land, but all this was to no avail. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her skin had gone as white as a cloud, and she was shivering. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds cover most of the stars but pockets of them slide into view, twinkling softly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He laughs and says there isn’t a cloud in the sky. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Winter storm clouds scudded in, got snagged on our hills, and stayed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure he was hiding something from her, and her irritation was just as visible as the clouds of steam from their warm breaths. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no answer and George Weston coughed and was suddenly extremely interested in an aimlessly drifting cloud. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, Minli heard a faint murmuring sound that she had never heard before, like a song chanted from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy wanted June to be Keeper so badly, tears clouded her eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, though a wall of slate-grey clouds hid the setting sun as it made its descent into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The chill’s gone from the air, even when the sun peeks behind the clouds.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

My breath makes small white clouds as it hits the air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Grim it stood above the northern cliffs, grey were the clouds over the seas of winter, endless the lists and ranks and rounds of names that the Namer's eight pupils must learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud shadowed the moon, and the room darkened. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible drought once, with all the land crying out for water and the sky quite empty of clouds. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We were high over thick clouds, the sky above so bright it hurt my eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then the mood, like the evening ocean fog now clouding the street lamps, closed round her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two full days of drenching spring storms, the darkest clouds parted and I began a campaign to recover my freedom. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The afternoon Madame’s car was spotted coming across the fields, it was windy and sunny, with a few storm clouds starting to gather. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used it to sweep the ground around her, to create a huge cloud of ash that rose up like a smoke signal. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

His own words must have jolted a memory, for his face clouded again and he frowned very slightly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for my teammates to arrive, I sat with my feet hanging over the abyss, staring across the clouds, looking down on the tops of 22,000-foot peaks that a month earlier had towered overhead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We turned to see a cloud of dust heading our way led by an ancient pickup truck moving at great speed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the cloud of white chalk that comes out of thirty erasers is pretty impressive, let me tell you. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Distant clouds, rich and dark and rumbling threateningly, were rolling slowly off the mountains. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He revs the engine, A cloud of blue smoke From the tailpipe, And cuts it off. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse—the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of ash billowed, blotting out fireman and child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Feral, call it off!” she cried, but he didn’t, so she charged straight toward him, cloud and all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s my sanctuary from the thoughts that cloud my head. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lightning illuminates the distant clouds in erratic bursts, but it’s still too far away to hear the thunder. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes were glued to an island hidden beneath charcoal-gray clouds of smoke. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At 11:00 p.m., the Norwegians heard the hum of engines in the thick clouds above. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the empty tables, on the other side of a counter, they saw Helpers scurrying about in the kitchen, half-hidden behind clouds of steam and grill smoke. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the clouds came over the moon again and the mountains and the lake were gone, but it was much lighter than it had been before and we could see the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tiny clouds were drifting by, pale as a heron's feathers, ruffled like acacia flowers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We dig our bare hands into the ground over and over again, each fistful of earth accompanied by a little cloud of dust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I held one of the glass ovals near his mouth, there was no breath to cloud the surface. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the clouds were seared by a blinding flash. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The air over their heads churned and darkened, a cloud coalescing out of nowhere, gray and dense and gravid with rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The last wispy cloud disappeared as the world of Alke emerged like a jewel beneath us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As he puzzled over the words, a cloud covered the moon and they disappeared from the page. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But despite the warmth, a pall hung over them, and the sun remained hidden behind clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The half-moon hung over the pines, partly hidden by small, glowing clouds moving slowly across the sky—the sky changing each moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As time went on, the hydrogen and helium gas in the galaxies would break up into smaller clouds that would collapse under their own gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust clouds settled slowly, depositing a pale sheet on the Tunisian rug. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My hand was shaking itself out, until I looked up and saw the cumulus cloud I’d noticed earlier. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people were still leaning out their windows, for the night was warm, even though the sky still held storm clouds from time to time among the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turns around at the slam of the door, he coughs out a startled cloud of smoke. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She alone had known how to outsmart the malicious mountain Ka’t’sina who imprisoned the rain clouds in the northwest room of his magical house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This young woman had applied for the vacancy with the most dubious of references, which spelt out to any experienced butler that she had left her previous situation under something of a cloud. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were caves everywhere running into the cloud, and at the entrances to the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stoves with frying-pans in their hands, frying snowballs for their husbands’ suppers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A cloud of uncertainty came over her face. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could plot a logical course through the icefall, the wind came up, and snow began to slant hard out of the clouds, stinging my face and reducing visibility to almost nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nosebleed Section Our seats are in the clouds, and every time Dad thinks the ref makes a bad call, he rains. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to bother with that part for the lieutenant. I don’t want him to read about the pink cloud puffing out of Benny’s mouth.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When they flew back beneath the clouds a little while later, they had to squint through the darkness for a landmark they knew. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds above the sea became heavy, and just as he began to hear thunder, a wall of dark water poured from the sky and into the sea. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Noxious clouds expanded around the giant, filling the ruins like thick cigar smoke. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And her favorite “But trailing clouds of glory do we come.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mornings in the Congo were so steamy you couldn’t see a thing but cloud come to earth, so you might as well be anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, the sky was overcast with slate-gray clouds, the air thick with rains foreboding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was his power—cranking up the passions so badly, they clouded your ability to think. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the cotton apart, and Twig and I joined him, fluffing white clouds for Cotton Ball Heaven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was slightly overcast, but the sun was trying hard to shine through the clouds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was time to notice the clouds in a blue sky, the reddish-brown dust at my feet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a white full moon, and low purple clouds lay over the horizon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Darkness seemed to roll out of it like a cloud. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The violets were good tinder and soon greasy clouds of smoke were billowing high into the air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dark clouds over Bushwick have a kind of magic to the them. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the third day, they were startled when Con left them behind in a cloud of dust, galloping down the trail toward a horse they could not quite make out in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, the clouds pull together, forming many tight balls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time we drove, she stared worriedly at the sky, even though there were only a few white clouds. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then all Sierra saw was dull whiteness—a billowing cloud that resolved into a screaming face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Fog, cloud cover, blizzard conditions, rain, and foul weather of every description often hid the sun and stars from Worsley’s sight. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was too dark, too hard dark with clouds covering even the small light from the stars, and he could not see. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if there is more water in the clouds, there must be more water on the surface. What kind of surfaces are very wet?” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The name of the wind came to me when I was arguing with Elxa Dal. When I shouted it his braziers exploded in a cloud of burning ash and cinder,” he chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark: gray clouds above black ruin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A small sandstorm was gathering in the distance, and the dust rose and fell in gray-white clouds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bits of pale gold were flying among delicate frosty-white flakes of cloud, and over to one side the rim of the morning sun was coming up red as blood. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Crab’s car left in a cloud of smoke and dust, Samantha snapped back into action, jumping around and barking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But the floodlights and lanterns and lamps shine on, their collective light so bright that later people will say they saw it ten miles away, a beacon shooting up through the storm clouds. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, days later, when the clouds disappeared and the sun emerged, the lake began to split into hundreds of small puddles throughout the labor camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cool morning breeze and clouds thankfully shielded us from the otherwise oppressive heat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Just beyond the horizon, there lurks a cloud that the winds will soon bring over us,” James Q. Wilson wrote in 1995. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I could imagine Diane and her rich husband strolling around up here, close to the clouds, but Rose and me were out of place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I look back and see clouds of dust rising from where the Mayor is following. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke from Madrina’s cigars, sage, and candles forms iridescent clouds all around the room. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But Pittsburgh was gray and sad, the sun nonexistent and the clouds fluffy with unshed snow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Leo clutched his Archimedes sphere as a funnel cloud of sleet lifted him off his feet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was no feeling of speed until we reached a thin deck of clouds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides gliding along as though he’s being transported on clouds, he also moves erratically, unsure of what to do next. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sun was setting, cast against a bruised sky curiously fractured by strange black fissures amid the clouds. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tobacco ignited and glowed, and the lover’s head was enveloped in clouds of blue smoke. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above burns brilliant and clean without a single cloud from horizon to horizon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’d been hit by gunfire from a German fighter and, with an engine on fire, managed to escape the enemy plane by hiding in a storm cloud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The clouds were low, but the half moon was lower still and shone a gray, feeble light on their quilted undersides. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Your head is in the clouds, girl. Watch out for the thunderbolt!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A cloud, hitherto unseen, came upon the moon, and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And he dawdled as the clouds turned their mackerel undersides to him and the cool of the late afternoon started to settle in over the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His appeals fell on deaf ears, and Anansi turned to me as Nyame’s spell pulled him back inside the funnel cloud. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One great coil of vapour went whirling up, twisting round and round Orthanc, until it looked like a tall peak of cloud, fiery underneath and moonlit above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that blew my way from the front seat of Dayi Jamsheed’s SUV. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my dream I have somehow figured out that to catch a cloud means I’ll fly to heaven. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The moisture that sprayed into the air would condense and form clouds pregnant with rain. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It followed us under thick clouds and waited for us at the other end of dark forest paths. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the forest floor in clouds so thick they filled our mouths and nostrils. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, against billowing white clouds, stood a jackstraw jumble of ships' masts. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Looking at the horizon helps,” yelled Maddie, her own farseeing eyes focused on the distant place where the battered gray land met tumultuous gray cloud. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A few cheers went up from the crush along the banks, as thin and ragged as the clouds scuttling overhead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The morning sun had to burn its red path through low-hanging hazes and clouds of industrial smoke. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Half a minute, if you please!’ shouted the man over his shoulder, and vanished into a babel of voices and a cloud of smoke. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The blue sky arched there in the distance, but above her head the sun was blocked by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, walking among clouds and long flags of smoke, but even the sunlight was defiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The living room was dark, unaired, and she imagined the whole building steeped in months, even years, of accumulated urine, and herself working every day in this urine cloud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I turned to follow her hand and saw the clouds lifting and the earth rising up to meet us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t see the top of the tent at all—it was completely obscured by rolling clouds of smoke. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, the clouds have darkened, but the rain has stopped. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Arya thought it tasted wonderful, but Yoren was too angry to eat: A cloud seemed to hang over him, ragged and black as his cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There did not seem to be anything magical or even special about it, and she did not turn into a cloud of seeds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But this sky had lots of different types of clouds in it at different heights, so you could see how big it was and this made it look enormous. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But, instead, there would be a hiss and a small cloud of deadly smallpox vapor would be released into the crowded room. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The clouds soared above, changing their shape, their size, as they passed by. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In that time the wind picked up, suddenly clouds covered the horizon, and some small ones gathered directly overhead. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accidentally knocked a tray of chemicals off the counter and made an Orange mushroom cloud in the trash can. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the cloud of burning oil stood over the landscape like an angry father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On weekends Nicholas walked around the house in a tense cloud of silence, nursing his worries. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I heard God calling my name from up in the clouds somewhere, man, and I thought he was telling me I was the chosen one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Timothy said he saw an arc of very black clouds to the west They looked as though they were beginning to join the higher clouds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

About all that can be said with confidence about the Oort cloud is that it starts somewhere beyond Pluto and stretches some two light-years out into the cosmos. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sleep came for me eventually, just as the storm clouds peeled back to reveal a pristine night sky. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The clouds hang heavy over the low, flat roof of the colegio, hiding the mountains, giving everything a dull metallic sheen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the owl returned and gathered up all the babes of Limbo and flew them up to the clouds of heaven. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, the color changes in the face, shifts from white to grey, and then there are clouds that float across it, disappearing when they reach the opposite side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Its sides were now dark and sullen, and its head was in grey cloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Wind and time have worn and smoothed the gate's tiered placards that barely show the old carvings of the five colored clouds of heaven. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mack and the boys were under a cloud and they knew it and they knew they deserved it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds darkened and roiled like a seething cauldron of snakes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Blossoms of red and blue fire spread silently through the low clouds, marbled gold and pink by the setting sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a cloud of steam as the arm-ring fell into the water. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The ground moved farther and farther away, and the top of the tree stretched into the clouds, which were pink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like the clouds above us stopped floating over the mountaintops. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew her by name, even the most obscure outcasts—a lady with swollen feet and a cloud of flies around her, a strange drooling man with a lisp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was with her now, peering into an abyss, and they saw how the scree plunged down through the cloud cover. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Over the hill crest, stark against the clouds, rose two figures on horseback. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a veil of ragged clouds, a full moon floated fat and white as a snowball. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They became silent, their faces clouding over, their features becoming soft and negative, their eyes bland and deceptive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some glided up through the floor, puffy dark clouds churning with faces and stories from their lives. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The moon from earlier has gone behind thick clouds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once during my trip, a flock of birds came out of a cloud bank. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a deep blue, with no clouds, and I felt I could almost touch it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Evan's case, he also appreciated the little things, like ladybugs and lucky pennies and the clouds on a rainy day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He started up his car and swung it back out onto the highway, leaving behind a blue-black cloud of smoke that drifted over the protesters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1864, Mary Surratt, under a cloud of suspicion over her husband’s loyalty to the Union, had moved her family to her Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and rented the tavern to John Lloyd. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He helped Yvaine to her feet and, awkwardly, the two of them took several faltering steps on the cloud. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above, a few high clouds were already showing hints of pink, even though sunset was hours off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The few low-lying clouds were moving quickly across it—as if heading home themselves before it got too dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were clouds in the sky on the way home, so I couldn’t see the Milky Way. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And far away on the edge of it is a small cloud which sits on the stone.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at the sky, where snow clouds were lowering down like granite slabs. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

But then the troops moved on and the moon went behind a cloud and Chamberlain knew that it could not be true. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky has gray clouds blowing in from the west, and with them comes the smell of rain and a heaviness in the air, but Kalinda doesn’t seem to care. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wind was moving clouds rapidly across the sky, and as they crossed over the moon, darkness and light rolled back and forth like the men wrestling on the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The white bands are thought to be high clouds, probably ammonia crystals; the brownish-colored belts, deeper and hotter places where the atmosphere is sinking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here we are, at the highest point the eye can see, not counting the clouds, the air, the lazy sun. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the Great Hall was serenely blue and streaked with frail, wispy clouds, just like the squares of sky visible through the high mullioned windows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Something in the shadows or the angle of the dim light told me that noon had come and gone, and afternoon, and that evening was coming behind the clouds. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I can feel it like a shift in the air, like when a cloud moves over the sun. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Through one elongated triangle she sees a clean patch of cloud. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second fork of animated lightning sliced across the screen, there was a swirl of clouds, and then in burning red the letters SE, the logo of Sayle Enterprises. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I whip my head around just in time to see, one block away, a cloud of blue, a flash of gold, and a surprisingly familiar face. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A great ridge of clouds stretched above the setting sun, and the air was cold and clean. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wishes it could lift me away into the clouds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The captain asked them no questions about how they came to find themselves high on a cloud, and they volunteered no answers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It clouded over, as if a dragon had breathed on it, and then it cleared. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A brilliant dawn broke through the morning dew, caressed every shadow, and lifted the fog to reveal a floor of white clouds dotting an azure sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sunlight gleamed against the honey-house window, flickering now and then with a shifting cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the raft ascended into a thick cloud that smelled like wet coals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Out in the field, Brown collapsed in a cloud of stinging insects. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The May sunset was red in clouds, and there was still half an hour to twilight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The star sat on the cloud beside him, wearing the robe she had borrowed from the woman in the inn, with her broken leg stretched out on the thick mist in front of her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what the smell was but it was enlarging and she could almost see it, a foul brown cloud. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The deck cracked like thin ice under Jason’s legs and, with a sonic boom, the Argo II hurtled out of the clouds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even though it is morning, the sky is still dark with clouds and there are lights on in the next house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He picked smooth winds between towers of clouds as he led Frightful through the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Toward midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

North they flew, beyond the river, Drogon gliding on tom and tattered wings through clouds that whipped by like the banners of some ghostly army. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It drifted toward the coffin and began to shimmer, like a cloud of pure energy. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their breath, expelled in small clouds, vanishes like smoke from a chimney. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Butterflies of different vivid colors danced from petal to petal, and they seemed to cloud around Ishtar as she ascended the stairs to the front door, still on her call. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Low clouds wreathed the peaks of the Miiggelberg above the racecourse, and fog filtered through the woods down closer to the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My slow southern ears were baffled by their clouded, thick accents. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far above them, a lonely little black cloud amassed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The light increased, and pink wisps of cloud appeared in the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Streaks of smudged gray clouds covered the sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swirled the surface of the cloud with her hand, rippling the mist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rooster was still and lifeless beneath the sock even as the man took sips of white rum and blew it in a cloud at the rooster’s shrouded head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The goddess Aphrodite floated around them on a small white cloud, strewing rose petals in the giantess’s eyes and calling encouragement to Piper. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The telescope brought it closer, but there was no more detail: cloud still looks like cloud however much it’s magnified. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d lain back on the lawn and was looking at the blue sky, the hurrying autumn clouds. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ratliffs own the moon that floats over the lake, and the sun and the clouds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But after the accident, under the gathering clouds of fate, something changed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When he reached Medea it seemed to her as if her heart left her to go to him; a dark mist clouded her eyes and she had no strength to move. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He popped open the microwave door and a cloud of steam carrying the smell of reheated fried chicken came bursting out. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She extended a contorted hand, and another fairy turned to ash and disintegrated in a gray cloud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She hunched over and murmured to herself, and I swear I saw silver symbols etched in the air before they disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z