| 单词 | cumulus cloud |
| 例句 | Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z You can also play tag with the cumulus clouds, climbing and diving around and through them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused outside the phone box to admire the huge cumulus clouds piled against a pale blue sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 Phil asks as he gazes up at the few cumulus clouds in the sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z They sat side by side on a thick, white cumulus cloud the size of a small town. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Kat, out there, somewhere in the city, under the growing cumulus cloud, on the trail of the strange man who sold us the ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant sight of his supersized paintings of angels and gods couched on cumulus clouds are meant to pull you up the stairs, up to heaven, and they do. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The foot mirrors are shaped like cumulus clouds. The Optimized Anti-Style of Allbirds Shoes 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Pale retinal spots remind him of cumulus clouds, the retinal arteries of patients with high blood pressure of “jagged forks of lightning”. Life in the round 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Inland, the landscape hit all the familiar “Under the Tuscan Sun” touchstones: cypress trees pointing up at billowing cumulus clouds, vineyards rolling back to medieval hilltop towns. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Styles’s songs in particular seem hollowed out of any introspection; most of the ones on “Harry’s House” pass by like cumulus clouds. The Year Pop’s Men Dismantled Their Masculinity 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Out of the window, the white cumulus clouds looked higher and further away. It's All Right I Have a List That Helps to Make Everything Clear and It's Real Easy to Follow by Ian Beck - short story 2012-11-14T12:09:04Z Sundsten's sky vistas also display unusual weather phenomena, such as cumulus clouds attached to each other by what look like gauzy umbilical cords. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z It was ideal hiking weather: dry heat under a brilliant blue sky that was decorated with puffy, white cumulus clouds. Overnighter: In Colorado, Switchbacks and ‘The Shining’ 2012-10-19T17:12:06Z "That rain made so many gloriously puffy cumulus clouds in the background," she said. TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Farther up, we passed a Yaupon holly that was pruned like cumulus clouds and a grove of grafted pecan trees strong enough to survive the sticky alkaline soil. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Skiing several feet of fresh, untracked powder in Daisetsuzan National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, I feel like I’m bouncing around inside a cumulus cloud . The Japanese island where powder snow is almost guaranteed during the month of January 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Inside, the single room is filled to capacity with crinolines that hang from the ceiling like hundreds of cumulus clouds in shades of ivory, tan and blush. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z As he spoke, a full moon rose behind us and roseate spoonbills sailed in V-formation across pink cumulus clouds fading into periwinkle to the west. Tears for the Magnificent and Shrinking Everglades, a ‘River of Grass’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Some pieces call to mind puffy cumulus clouds floating in the sky, except each is spotted and has sprouted four legs. Molding a ‘Little Universe of Life Forms’ as Functional Vessels 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Peering out of the airplane window, I wondered: Did the pilot take a wrong turn at the last cumulus cloud? The U.S. Virgin Islands clean up for the holidays 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But there are cumulus clouds of feathers and blossoming rosettes made of lace and gleaming sequin armor that romp across centuries and salons. The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z At sunset the cumulus clouds rose above us like the mountain ranges we had missed in the North. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z They are gigantic green cumulus clouds with roots like rhinoceroses. 8 L.A. trees to love that aren't jacarandas 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Tornadoes — or rotating funnels of air connected to the Earth and either a cumulonimbus or the base of a cumulus cloud — are dangerous because of their immense power, which Houser barely escaped. We can't predict tornadoes with high accuracy. Scientists are trying to change that 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Landspouts are similar to tornadoes, but the circulation from the funnel starts at ground level and is pulled up into towering cumulus clouds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A wild weather day in California: The Fujiwhara effect, a bomb cyclone and a landspout warning 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “So I leaned close, put on my glasses, and I saw those 10,000-foot cumulus clouds shrunken and upside down inside each one,” he said. How to see the kaleidoscopic Echo Park home that's drawing visitors from around the world 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The life span of a cloud, in particular the type of cumulus clouds most likely to produce rain, is rarely more than a couple of hours, atmospheric scientists say. Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z This process is the driving power behind thunderheads, those great cumulus clouds that rise as much as 20.0 km into the stratosphere. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust. Webb Telescope Raises Curtain on a New, Ancient Universe 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Although there will be a little monsoonal moisture, and cumulus clouds may form over the mountains, but no thunderstorms are anticipated, forecasters said. 'Dangerous' heat wave forecast for Southern California's Labor Day weekend 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Of particular concern are cumulus clouds and anvil clouds, which are highly charged. The Air Force weather team that keeps canceling your rocket launches 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s not just that you can sometimes see the flames and watch the towering cumulus clouds they create, hanging like anvils over the ridges and darkening the landscape. Opinion | Can You Still #Resist When Your State’s on Fire? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Next day, 27 April, powerful winds kicked up, cumulus clouds billowed on the horizon, and rain poured down in a deluge. Chernobyl’s cover-up is a warning for our nuclear future | Kate Brown 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z As baby cumulus clouds recently bubbled into calm heavens, residents of Armour, population 880, recalled how people trailed outside after the departing storm clouds to cut neighbors’ fallen limbs, haul debris and patch roofs. Residents in Armour recall 2017 storm 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Today’s weather seems like it will cooperate for a flight; there’s an 80 percent chance that conditions will be favorable for launch, with the possibility of some rain and cumulus clouds. Watch SpaceX launch its second used Falcon 9 rocket for NASA this afternoon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Seven counties are in the program, which deploys aircraft into towering cumulus clouds to spray silver iodide. North Dakota suffers repercussions of drought conditions 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z There’s only a 40 percent chance that conditions will be favorable for launch, with a concern of anvil and cumulus clouds forming near Cape Canaveral. Watch SpaceX launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in less than two weeks 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z From there, looking south, we see an electric cityscape of high-rises and cumulus clouds above the late-morning traffic. From a muddy lane to muddled lanes of traffic 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It is also revealed by the towering cumulus clouds that loom overhead, laden with moisture, suggesting that they might easily morph into thunderstorm mode at any time. An unlucky number for D.C.: 13 consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z With their light frames and relatively large wings, the frigatebirds enter their theme park by swooping beneath a fluffy cumulus cloud about 100 feet above the water’s surface. A Roller Coaster in the Sky for Frigatebirds 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Closed-cell clouds look similar to a capped honeycomb from above, with opaque cumulus clouds at the center of the cells. Satellite Eye on Earth: February 2016 - in pictures 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s like stepping into a sun-filled cumulus cloud, a dazzling, cottony glow all about your person and nothing but air beneath your feet. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – extract 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z In the distance, a range of cumulus clouds was lit orange by the sun. Scientists fly Kansas sky to study ferocious storms 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Meteorologically speaking, then, big IT users can look forward to blue skies containing cheap, fluffy cumulus clouds. The cheap, convenient cloud 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z If a woman could be cloaked in cumulus clouds, she might look something like this model who practically floated down the runway barely tethered to the ground. Comme Des Garcons and Undercover break all the rules, dazzle the eye at Paris Fashion Week 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Okay, maybe Castro’s gnocchi can’t compare to the cumulus clouds over at Rose’s Luxury. Rosemarino d’Italia in Alexandria: The next iteration of Italian American cooking? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z With the exception of a heavy band of cumulus clouds some forty miles north and west of Howland, the Coast Guard had reported clear conditions in the area. Aircraft Fragment Likely Not Earhart's, Says Investigator 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The majority of the clouds on display are easily recognizable varieties: featherlike cirrus clouds and big, photogenic cumulus clouds. Out of thin air: is this the world's newest type of cloud? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Adding cumulus clouds into climate models is a "long way off," he said. How Does Air Pollution Affect Clouds? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Forecasters use satellite images to track whether cumulus clouds are forming, which indicates another round of severe weather. Florida Deluge Was All-Time Record 2014-05-02T14:19:00Z The vox populi of the Pacific Northwest — hopped up on caffeine and cumulus clouds — still grumbles about the bad calls in the Seahawks’ 21-10 loss to the Steelers in Super Bowl 40. Chad: Super Bowl 2014: The Couch Slouch viewing guide 2014-01-26T19:55:51Z A small cumulus cloud entered the picture Tuesday at the only event in the scientific world that boasts a big enough attendance to almost fill a small stadium for professional baseball. Is Mindfulness Good for Everything? Maybe Not for Learning to Ride a Bike 2013-11-14T16:45:07.197Z Translation: there were scattered clouds beginning at about 16,500 feet above sea level, and a rapidly-rising towering cumulus cloud reaching to 24,000 feet right in front of them. The Inside Story of a Deadly Air Force Crash 2013-10-30T11:05:27Z Fluffy cumulus clouds tend to sit at just one mile from the ground. The mysterious summer night clouds 2013-06-28T15:55:03Z “I always loved watching the sky, especially those friendly puffy cumulus clouds on a warm spring day and imagining what animal or face they looked like.” Becoming a meteorologist: A job where you predict the future 2013-02-15T15:29:39Z "I saw them right in front of me as they were swallowed up by a huge cumulus cloud," pilot Enrique Rada told Turin daily La Stampa in an interview published on Monday. Missoni family hold hope missing fashion boss still alive 2013-01-07T12:05:55Z Varieties like puffy, cottony cumulus clouds; wavy stratocumulus clouds; and tall, thundering cumulonimbus clouds behave differently as well. Mobile Lab Set to Study Clouds' Influence on Weather and Climate 2012-10-01T18:15:00.447Z The four-door hatchback, however, is generating cumulus clouds of data every second. Automakers, Tech Companies Mining Electric Car Big Data To Plot Industry's Future 2012-06-18T13:48:31Z Within a few minutes after the bottoms of cumulus clouds turn from black to gray, letting down visible trailing showers. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z The cloud effects were very striking; the storms seemed to gather round Makalu, and first one peak and then the other would appear out of the great white cumulus clouds whose shapes changed every minute. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Billowy masses of white cumulus clouds sailed rapidly over the deep blue sky. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Westwards, a clump of firtrees silhouetted against a bank of blue cumulus cloud; The June afterglow like a sea behind. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z There is a peculiarly warm sensation in the centre of a cumulus cloud, especially when it is not dense. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z These piled masses of vapor are cumulus clouds, and if they don’t overdo the matter are a sign of fair weather. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z It is a lovely day, with large white cumulus clouds rolling lazily over a brilliant blue sky. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z We left the city behind, with 152 a huge cumulus cloud resting over it, and the evening light on all. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Towering cumulus clouds typically appear on showery days. In pictures 2011-07-30T23:47:30Z As the sun heats the ground and air during the morning, small cumulus clouds appear in the sky. Red sky at night 2011-07-13T01:13:01Z The large piles of cumulus clouds are called thunderheads for the very reason that they almost always precede a thunderstorm. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z In the east a full round moon is struggling through a sea of cumulus clouds. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Already the heavy cumulus clouds were curdling over the distant Drakensberg, and raising their white and shining masses over the near Xomlenzi range. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z It is of interest to note the appearance of the sky when cumulus clouds are present. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The temperature falls at the adiabatic rate in unsaturated air till the base of the cumulus cloud is reached. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z And so it comes about that the person who talks about storm centers and areas of high pressure and cumulus clouds is no longer regarded as slightly unhinged. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z “Why not this very night?” he asked himself, stepping nervously out from the laurustinus, and glaring at the moon, whose thin crescent flickered feebly through cumulus clouds. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The canopy of bright blue, usually smiling over the Chiltern Hills, was obscured by black cumulus clouds, that hung in motionless masses—completely shrouding the firmament. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z A cumulus cloud in the sky may be a hundred thousand times brighter than the deepest shadow. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The cumulus clouds were traversed three-quarters of a mile from the earth, and above them the air was found to be very dry. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z In summer local evaporation may be so long-continued or so vigorous that the cumulus clouds cannot hold all their moisture content when cooled. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z But she is not visible, obscured by a bank of thick cumulus clouds, that have rolled up from the Californian Gulf—portent of an approaching rain-storm. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z A few cumulus clouds were piled in fantastic groups toward the west, as I stopped about two miles out, and gazed slowly around me. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z At the top of this haze cumulus clouds are commonly seen to be poking out like nearly submerged icebergs. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z For example those burbling, cotton-ball cumulus clouds -- particularly the anvil-topped variety that occur in conjunction with thunderstorms -- are almost always a lumpy encounter. Turbulence: Things that go bump in the plane 2010-07-20T21:40:00Z If the cumulus clouds of the summer’s afternoon do not decrease in size as evening approaches showers may be looked for during the night. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A great cumulus cloud piled up like a Himalayan peak in the west beyond my mouse-gray dwelling. The Idyl of Twin Fires The sun was shining through light cumulus clouds. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 An easterly wind lifts and turns them to dark, cumulus clouds, settled on the frosty crown, like an old man’s winter cap; the physiognomical expression is that of anger. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Afterward, he left the girl, and went up on deck, where he stood staring through long minutes toward the fleecy masses of cumulus clouds that lay along the New Jersey horizon. When the Cock Crows If cumulus clouds heap up to leeward, that is, to the north, or northwest on a south or southwest wind a heavy storm is sure to follow. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Diurnal cumulus clouds, often absent because of the excessive dryness of the air, are replaced by clouds of blowing dust and sand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" I could see the cumulus clouds sailing through the blue atmosphere, and thought if only we were there, only had land under us, then all our troubles would sink into oblivion. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 These westerly and north-westerly winds are very light, and like the gentle easterly breeze which sets toward the cumulus clouds and summer showers. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The sky was a deep blue—usually described as an Italian sky—broken only by a few fleecy, cumulus clouds, which served to bring out more clearly the rich colour of the background. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Clear winter days several times a season show a brilliant blue sky filling with great cumulus clouds of dark blue, blurred at the top and gray at the base. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z In the aurora borealis the cumulus clouds appeared of a darker color, almost the gray of wool. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Great cumulus clouds lazily, ponderously, glided across the sky, prototypes of nomadic wandering. Sunlight Patch So the sun is reflected, in beautiful colors sometimes, from the cumulus clouds which have passed over to the east. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes There was a little fair weather cumulus cloud scattered here and there, but nothing that would interfere with visibility. Smugglers' Reef The puffy cumulus clouds show a lot of white. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z There were cumulus clouds of varying closeness all the time. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I It was a heavy cumulus cloud, but I do not know from what direction it came. Wild Life on the Rockies Sullen, dull, he watched the sunset, watched the bellying cumulus clouds mimic the Grand Cañon. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life The moon was now well up, but hidden by a mass of cumulus cloud. As We Sweep Through The Deep The summer cumulus clouds increase in size as the afternoon proceeds. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z She was uplifted by the bold contrast of cumulus clouds and the radiant blue sky. The Job An American Novel The moon, however, had already risen, or rather had been all the while above the horizon, but hidden by a thick band of cumulus clouds that hung over the west. The Tiger Hunter In the direction of Mount Overlook he could see cumulus clouds and the dark turbulence which meant strong updraft. Mercenary For if you poked and poked, you raised white cumulus clouds of ash, and you were left at last with a few darkening and sulphurous embers. The Lost Girl The leaden layer broke up into black cumulus clouds, that slowly careered across the canopy of the sky. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse But there are cumulus clouds in the sky; and these, ever and anon drifting over the moon’s disc, compel him to pull up till they pass. The Death Shot A Story Retold Dense cumulus clouds have formed, the upper surfaces of which have caught all the sun's heat, intensifying the unstable equilibrium of the air. Plotting in Pirate Seas There were explosions, fireballs in the air and rising cumulus clouds of varicolored smoke and dust. The Cosmic Computer This coign of safety billowed outward from the pattern towards the building like an arm of cumulus cloud and the top of it rose like a column to a height above my range. Highways in Hiding Mountain after mountain stretched away to north, south, east, and west, blue or green, bright or dark, as distance or the shadows of the beautiful cumulus clouds severally affected them. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Unlike that day, the weather was sunny and mild; big cumulus clouds moved languidly through the sky, as if it were midsummer instead of late October. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story We so rarely now see cumulus cloud of this grand kind, that I will yet delay you by reading the description of its nearer aspect, in the 'Eagle's Nest.' The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 One minute they were in the midst of a cumulus cloud; the next, through it. Around the World in Ten Days The back drop should be of light blue with a few cumulus clouds in white. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays This was partly because I did not want to hurt him, and partly because a white cumulus cloud is a bad part of your sketch to kill a black beetle on. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls White cumulus clouds appear, floating lazily in the azure, reflected by the river below. Some Summer Days in Iowa During part of its flight it passed between two towering cumulus clouds. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects The mist had lifted like magic, and we were not far toward Staten Island before we knew a fine, blowing, clear day, presided over, in the still, upper spaces, by great, leaning cumulus clouds. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The sun had gone, but above the crooked back of cumulus clouds, dark and pink with radiance, and on the other sky aloft to the eastward piled the gorgeous-curtained mists of evening. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Or try and draw some cumulus clouds from imagination, several groups of them 186across a sky, and you will find how often again you have repeated unconsciously the same forms. The Practice and Science of Drawing Light masses of cumulus cloud were rushing over the sky, and driving waves of blue and purple colour across the mountain masses and the forest slopes. Lady Merton, Colonist In the hot air a bank of cumulus clouds glowed red as from a distant conflagration. Where the Trail Divides The afternoon cumulus clouds had dissipated in a pale blue sky. Joe Burke's Last Stand In the distance lightning flashed between dark cumulus clouds. The Tarn of Eternity From his bed he could see the great cumulus clouds that hung in the blue sky. Of Human Bondage A coppery haze hung over London, above which the rusty white summits of a range of cumulus cloud towered into the thick grey-blue of the upper sky. The Far Horizon It is easy to believe that Hawthorne imagined this dream of a summer evening, while watching the great cumulus clouds, tinted with rose and lavender like aerial snow-mountains, floating toward the horizon. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The last mile of its course lies between the sides of sunken domes and swelling folds of the granite that are clustered and pressed together like a mass of bossy cumulus clouds. The Yosemite On the far horizon white cumulus clouds were forming. The Tarn of Eternity Overhead huge white cumulus clouds, piled tier on tier like fantastic galleons in full sail, floated, changing slowly in a greenish sky. Three Soldiers Whirlies tracked about at intervals and overhead a fine cumulus cloud formed, revolving rapidly. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Then the heat was intense, and the heavy cumulus clouds were charged with thunder and lightning. Catharine Furze The vapour having then risen, occupied the upper air in the form of light cirrostratus and cumulus clouds. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia High above white cumulus clouds floated in an azure sky. The Tarn of Eternity If one ever comes into the midst of a cumulus cloud in the mountains, one sees how its myriads of single particles are in ceaseless movement. Man or Matter The surface became very rough in the afternoon, and the light, too, was bad owing to cumulus clouds being massed over the sun. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition He pointed upward to a break in the trees, to a large cumulus cloud that had assumed a fantastic shape. The Shepherd of the Hills The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes noticed at the outbreak of a great storm. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Lifted to such heights, the branches appear to be covered with masses of peculiarly soft and rounded foliage like the piled-up banks of a white cumulus cloud before a thunderstorm. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Nowhere in nature may the supremacy of form over matter be so vividly observed as in the cumulus cloud. Man or Matter The tobacco smoke grew denser, drifting and rising in spirals, waves, tilted layers, cumulus clouds, cataracts and suspended fogs like some fifth element created from the ribs of the ancient four. Strictly business: more stories of the four million When the white cumulus clouds rolled up out of the southwest, growing larger and thicker and darker, here and there coalescing into a black thundercloud, Jean welcomed them. To the Last Man A gentle breeze was blowing, and the sky was of the usual "Trade" character, that is, a dome of dark blue fringed at the horizon with peaceful cumulus clouds, almost motionless. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Above, the heavens made a complete hemisphere of blue in which a series of remote cumulus clouds floated and dissolved. Soul of a Bishop |
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