Clouds Sentence Examples

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  • The clouds were low and moving fast.

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  • Dusty glanced up at the sky, where the clouds had gone from black to slate.

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  • Clouds drifted away from a full moon, drenching the patio with soft lunar light.

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  • Day was breaking, the rain had ceased, and the clouds were dispersing.

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  • At the same instant the sun came fully out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and spirited impression.

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  • A bank of clouds was building to the northeast.

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  • She looked up at the glowing clouds, from which snow had begun to fall again.

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  • Tattered, blue-purple clouds, reddening in the east, were scudding before the wind.

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  • The sun was only just appearing from behind the clouds, the air was fresh and dewy.

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  • On two sides black curling clouds of smoke rose and spread from the fires.

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  • She sat down, leaning her back against the tree, and watched shadows from puffy clouds drift across the surface.

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  • The mean annual rainfall is greater on the slopes of the ranges by which the moisturebearing clouds are intercepted.

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  • For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.

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  • For the clouds, mythologically, are birds.

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  • They also played a new version of ' Dark Clouds ', which seems conclusive proof that they accept their past.

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  • Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.

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  • Each day fleecy clouds floated across the sky and occasionally veiled the sun, but toward evening the sky cleared again and the sun set in reddish-brown mist.

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  • While the western mountains keep out the moisture, they do not ward off the winds which pour down the steep slopes in the winter and spring and raise clouds of dust.

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  • In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

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  • It is computed that twenty millions of meteors enter the atmosphere every day and would be visible to unassisted vision in the absence of sunlight, moonlight and clouds, while if telescopic meteors are included the number will be increased twentyfold.

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  • This hypothesis, however, does not accord with the theory of the development of the earth from the state of a sphere of molt s en rock surrounded by an atmosphere of gaseous metals by which the first-formed clouds of aqueous vapour must have been absorbed.

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  • During the monsoon the climate is very damp, and at times even cold and raw, thick clouds and mist enveloping the sky for many days together.

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  • During some displays, auroral light appears in irregular areas or patches, which sometimes bear a very close resemblance to illuminated detached clouds.

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  • Meanwhile the clouds of hatred gathered over the queen.

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  • The scholar's wish was to see the clouds of war pass away, and leave thinkers to their peaceful work.

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  • A family swimming trip was narrowly averted by a few clouds!

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  • And the birches with their light and shade, the curly clouds, the smoke of the campfires, and all that was around him changed and seemed terrible and menacing.

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  • Seneca even made the discussion of such problems into a regular discipline, claiming that their concrete character gave an interest in morality to those who had no love for abstractions; while they prevented those who had from losing themselves in the clouds.

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  • The least wind raises clouds of fine dust, which fill the air, render it so opaque as to obscure the noonday sun, and make respiration difficult.

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  • But in the mountainous provinces of the interior and in those along the western coast, deep snow covers the ground throughout the whole winter, and the sky is usually wrapped in a veil of clouds.

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  • The anti-Trinitarian path was one which opened invitingly before a considerable class of critical minds, seeming as it did to lead out into Reformed Church In America a sunny open, remote from the unfathomable depths of mystery and clouds of religious emotion which beset the way of the sincere Catholic and Protestant alike.

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  • Along the whole west coast the climate resembles nothing in the British Islands so much as Cork and Kerry, for there are the same wet gales from a western ocean, the same clouds gathering on the dripping sides of wild mountains, an equal absence of severe frosts and hot sunshine, and a rich and evergreen vegetation.

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  • Osler in the shape of old clouds; their upper portions always appear dragged forward and they lean over, as it were, in the 14.

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  • Signs of this change first appeared publicly in his Shadows of the Clouds, a volume containing two stories of a religious sort, which he published in 1847 under the pseudonym of "Zeta," and his complete.

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  • This range acts as a " breakwater " to the clouds, arresting and condensing the moisture which is carried northwards by the south winds.

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  • They are powerful poems written with great vigour of language, but enveloped in clouds of mysticism.

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  • The old schools and universities were being quietly interpenetrated by the new spirit of humanism, when the sky was suddenly darkened by the clouds of religious conflict.

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  • Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

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  • These sudden appearances of vast bodies of lemmings, and their singular habit of persistently pursuing the same onward course of migration, have given rise to various speculations, from the ancient belief of the Norwegian peasants, shared by Olaus Magnus, that they fall down from the clouds, to the hypothesis that they are acting in obedience to an instinct inherited from ancient times, and still seeking the congenial home in the submerged Atlantis, to which their ancestors of the Miocene period were wont to resort when driven from their ordinary dwelling-places by crowding or scarcity of food.

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  • Photographs of the solar disk, taken with the H or K line, show extensive luminous clouds (flocculi) of calcium vapour, vastly greater in area than the sun-spots.

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  • The lower and denser vapour appears as bright clouds, but the cooler vapour, at higher levels, absorbs the light from below and thus gives rise to dark clouds.

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  • General Sabine, Sir John Franklin, Prof. Selim Lemstrom, Dr David Walker (at Fort Kennedy in 1858-1859), Captain Parry (Fort Bowen, 1825) and others - have seen aurora below the clouds or between themselves and mountains.

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  • Then the " hamattan," or hot, dry wind from the Sahara, begins and brings with it clouds of impalpable dust.

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  • Thick clouds for the most part shut out the sun; while the cold current from the Sea of Okhotsk, aided by north-east winds, brings immense ice-floes to the east coast in summer.

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  • An unobstructed view of the great mountain is rarely obtained, however, because of the mists and clouds which cover its cone.

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  • Very high mountain ranges usually consist of many ridges, among which rain-clouds are entangled in their ascent, and in such cases precipitation towards the windward side of the main range, though on the leeward sides of the minor ridges of which it is formed, may occur to so large an extent that before the summit is reached the clouds are exhausted or nearly so, and in this case the total precipitation is less on the leeward than on the windward side of the main range; but in the moderate heights of the United Kingdom it more commonly happens from the causes explained that precipitation is prevented or greatly retarded until the summit of the ridge is reached.

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  • We circled like a pair of mountain buzzards toward thin wispy clouds that were forming at 4000ft.

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  • Colin Parker Tumbling clouds, wheeling gulls... You see, the scenery has a poetic effect on you!

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  • The areas of the sky which contain heavy obscuration usually exhibit clouds of several degrees of opacity.

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  • In subsequent trials with another apparatus, he found that the clouds were sometimes positively and sometimes negatively electrified, and so demonstrated the perfect identity of lightning and electricity.

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  • Having thus succeeded in drawing the electric fire from the clouds, Franklin conceived the idea of protecting buildings from lightning by erecting on their highest parts pointed iron wires or conductors communicating with the ground.

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  • Soon afterwards the clouds began to gather round him.

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  • Associated with the Sky are tablets to the sun and moon, the seven stars of the Great Bear, the five planets, the twenty-eight constellations, and all the stars of heaven; tablets to clouds, rain, wind and thunder being placed next to that of the moon.

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  • The plains as well as the western slopes of the Andes are covered with forest, the rivers become torrents, and the sky is covered with heavy clouds a great part of the year.

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  • During the dry season, when the climate is very much like that of the West Indies, there occur terrible tornadoes and long periods of the harmattan - a north-east wind, dry and desiccating, and carrying with it from the Sahara clouds of fine dust, which sailors designate "smokes."

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  • It is not, however, a mere abstraction, being filled with clouds and darkness; from it proceed Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose children are Aether (upper air) and Hemera (Day).

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  • It is a great mistake to suppose that because he took no great part in politics he had no interest in the practical questions of his time, or that he was so immersed in metaphysics as to live in the clouds.

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  • Rain and snow fall usually from clouds blown from the Gulf of Mexico and not wholly dried in Texas.

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  • The evidence to hand shows that on heights and in open country, especially in the north, there may be few or even no Schizomycetes detected in the air, and even in towns their distribution varies greatly; sometimes they appear to exist in minute clouds, as it were, with interspaces devoid of any, but in laboratories and closed spaces where their cultivation has been promoted Lhe air may be considerably laden with them Of course the distribution of bodies so light and small is easily influenced by movements, rain, wind, changes of temperature, &c. As parasites, certain Schizomycetes inhabit and prey upon the organs of man and animals in varying degrees, and the conditions for their growth and distribution are then very complex.

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  • Another type of mirage, frequently observed at sea in the northern latitudes, is presented in the appearance of ships and icebergs as if inverted and suspended in the clouds.

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  • It may happen that the change in density is so great that only the upper rays reach the eye; we are then met with the curious illusion of seeing inverted ships in the clouds, although nothing is visible on the ocean.

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  • At length the clouds broke; the light became clearer and clearer; and the enthusiast who had imagined that he was branded with the mark of the first murderer, and destined to the end of the arch-traitor, enjoyed peace and a cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.

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  • At the head of the army she rode clothed in a coat of mail, armed with an ancient sword, said to be that with which Charles Martel had vanquished the Saracens, the hiding-place of which, under the altar of the parish church of the village of Ste Catherine de Fierbois, the " voices " had revealed to her; she carried a white standard of her own design embroidered with lilies, and having on the one side the image of God seated on the clouds and holding the world in His hand, and on the other a representation of the Annunciation.

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  • But until the clouds rise above the hill there is an obvious countervailing tendency to compression, and in steep slopes this may reduce or entirely prevent precipitation until the summit is reached, when a fall of pressure with commotion must occur.

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  • It may even eddy backwards, as indicated by the curved arrows, and it is no uncommon thing, in walking up a steep hill in the contrary direction to the flight of the clouds, to find that the rain is coming from behind.

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  • The climate of the department is mild and it has an abundant rainfall, partly due to the west wind which drives the clouds from the gulf of Gascony.

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  • They appear to be the spirits of dawn, the earliest bringers of light in the morning sky; they hasten on in the clouds before Dawn and prepare the way for her.

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  • On the west of Mount Hekla this plain connects by a regular slope directly with the tableland, to the great injury of its inhabited districts, which are thus exposed to the clouds of pumice dust and driftsand that cover large areas of the interior.

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  • The Druids were believed to have the power to render a person insane by flinging a magic wisp of straw in his face, and they were able to raise clouds of mist, or to bring down showers of fire and blood.

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  • They claimed to be able to foretell the future by watching the clouds, or by means of divining-rods made of yew.

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  • This is also, perhaps, the proper place to observe that names derived from natural phenomena - sky, clouds, dawn and sun - are habitually assigned by Brazilians, Ojibways, Australians and other savages to living men and women.

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  • And in three lots were all things divided, and each drew a lot of his own," and to me fell the hoary sea, and Hades drew the mirky darkness, and Zeus the wide heaven in clear air and clouds, but the earth and high Olympus are yet common to all."

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  • Schwartz (Prahistorisch-anthropologische Studien) readily proves Cronus to be the storm, swallowing the clouds.

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  • Hooker in the meanwhile had fought the "Battle above the Clouds" on the steep face of Lookout Mountain, and though opposed by an equal force of Confederates, had completely driven the enemy from the mountain.

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  • They are variously explained by a fancied resemblance to the shapes of clouds, or as spirits of the rushing mountain torrents or winds.

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  • In Hindu mythology the Maruts, Indra, Agni and Vishnu wage war with the serpent Ahi to deliver the celestial cows or spouses, the waters held captive in the caverns of the clouds.

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  • The cattle are the rain-clouds, and the slaying of their keepers typifies the victory of the sun over the clouds, or of spring over winter.

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  • The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Cutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries, and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli mountains, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmere.

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  • The western prevailing winds - particularly the north-western - carry the rain-bearing clouds.

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  • The Black God climbed a wave as he might a grassy knoll and picked his way across the choppy waters near the beach, walking atop the transparent shallows towards the dark depths beneath the black clouds.

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  • He'd cracked the gateway when Jonny became the Black God, and now, the immortal realm peeked from the clouds into the mortal world.

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  • Clouds from the retreating storm looked like a triumphant army, hauling away its ordinance for another engagement—with only white-gray stragglers tagging behind.

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  • The moons appeared through the branches in the jungle, almost alone in the dark sky except for a wisp of clouds floating beneath them.  She watched the clouds pass.  More came, quickly blocking the moons and stealing most of the light from the jungle.  Katie sat up and blinked until her eyes adjusted to the new level of darkness.  The sky took on an eerie silver glow, like it did in Maryland the night before a hard snow.

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  • Darian jogged towards the obelisk and followed its tall form into the clouds with his eyes.

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  • The view was obscured by swirling clouds of steam.

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  • However, the clouds gathered quickly as Mary entered adolescence.

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  • He currently works on how different tropospheric aerosols such as sea-salt, sulfate aerosol, biomass aerosol interact with clouds.

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  • Secondly the clouds, which have a high albedo, can create a negative feedback helping to cool the forest area.

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  • He was very impressed by the graphics on the first screen, which showed a giant beanstalk climbing into the clouds.

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  • The rotation curve is a plot of the orbital velocity of the clouds around the galactic center vs. their distance from the Galaxy center.

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  • Deep convective clouds also produce large extensive anvils in the upper troposphere and are a major source of tropical cirrus.

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  • There was hazy sunshine through 5 oktas cirrus clouds and visibility was good.

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  • The pilot took us up to the fluffy clouds then let me do what I liked.

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  • In contrast, this image shows many old stars in addition to the interstellar clouds.

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  • The dark clouds of war were on the horizon.

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  • It burst into flames, sending out great billowing clouds of smoke.

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  • The scudding clouds made the scene much more dramatic than it would otherwise have been.

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  • The huge schools of the jellyfish follow the sun around the lake, moving like cumulus clouds across a sky.

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  • The ice crystals are in cirrus clouds, seen in the photographs above lower clouds behind which the sun set.

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  • Will and I then set off to brave the Fierce Ladies, storm clouds gathered and a deluge poured down upon the mountains.

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  • The clouds were at their maximum around noon and then began to disperse in the afternoon becoming almost cloudless by evening.

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  • We gained the col; corrected the map, and shot down the long, long valley as clouds gathered.

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  • Wherever the interstellar clouds of the two galaxies collide, they do not freely interpenetrate but, rather, suffer inelastic collision.

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  • For example, features such as clouds and jet contrails may appear on one image and not on the other.

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  • At the very moment when the sun sank below the horizon and turned the few clouds crimson, the moon rose.

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  • Breakfast - grapes and apple slices, yogurt and a cheese croissant - arrived while Essex was still visible beneath the clouds.

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  • Strong daytime sea breezes produce fair weather cumulus clouds on the immediate coastline.

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  • In the afternoon cumulus clouds were well-developed and showers heavier.

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  • News Westward swirling clouds of dust from the Sahara Desert might be putting a damper on Atlantic Ocean.. .

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  • The clouds of moral disapproval of infection were dispelled.

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  • Who hasn't seen the " man in the moon " or faces in clouds or in the burning embers of a fire?

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  • What if clouds rained Sprite and made the world fizzy?

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  • Tho, the sky does not have any clouds currently - might look goofy.

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  • They also color distant objects and through the evening haze, dark distant objects appear blue and light clouds appear yellow.

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  • Dark clouds, looming over the western horizon, appeared to rise up in pursuit.

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  • The upper limit of the clouds can sometimes also be of a lovely blue color intermingled with streaks of silvery white.

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  • Unfortunately during the ascent we watched lightning in clouds below to the north, our summit.

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  • Monsoon clouds are often likened to Krishna, finally arriving to quench the thirst of his lovers.

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  • Gradually the tints became paler; shades of soft pink just tinged the far-off clouds, and a delicate lilac fell on the waters.

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  • First time I've seen a total lunar eclipse without clouds.

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  • The Large and small Magellanic Clouds reside 160,000 light-years and 210,000 light-years from us, respectively.

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  • Clouds of biting midges can turn a pleasant walk into an ordeal.

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  • Across the choppy Menai Strait storm clouds were obscuring the mountaintops.

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  • All around are small farms with brick outbuildings, which puff small clouds of wood smoke into the air.

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  • Here we describe the results of a recent survey for molecular outflows associated with these clouds.

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  • Looking up through the branches we perceived that the sky had become overcast with heavy clouds.

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  • Clouds of dust particles brought about vivid sunsets all over the world for the next three years.

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  • We have examined the importance of isotope selective photodissociation / fractionation to gas mass estimation in molecular clouds.

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  • An hour previously, veiled in heavy clouds, the sun had sunk below the horizon that bounded the plain beyond the Shelif.

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  • And I don't want you to go poof when the sun rises and we're above the clouds.

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  • A quick glance at the sky to reassure myself that the scudding clouds did not presage rain.

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  • The higher resolution of large radio telescopes can be used to probe the structure of individual molecular clouds.

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  • The winds do howl and clouds scud by Me thinks tis too late, as the sea gulls still cry.

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  • The late summer's sun was warm, and fluffy white clouds scudded across the clear blue sky.

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  • The pilot was thus able to look down onto the clouds to see the searchlight aimed up from below.

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  • It went behind some clouds, avoiding the searchlight, and I lost sight of it.

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  • Clouds are rarely snow white so a thin wash of raw sienna helps give that creamy color.

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  • Will they ever see the silver lining on the clouds that gathered over them?

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  • The rolling clouds were whiter, too, and the waters looked more silvery than ever.

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  • The clouds remained almost stationary for about 40 minutes.

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  • But the maths teacher has always been calculating toward a career in the clouds as a pilot.

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  • Clouds can move and change shape quickly as indicated in this 30 minute time-lapse mpeg video loop.

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  • Behind him, huge clouds of an almost impossible purple turned slowly topsy-turvy in the silent anarchy of heaven.

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  • In addition, these clouds play a key role in the transport of air and water vapor across the tropical tropopause.

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  • Latent heat is released in clouds, at higher levels, and tends to warm the middle troposphere.

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  • Amid the continuing turmoil in the wake of World War II, the dark clouds of the East-West confrontation were already gathering.

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  • Come dusk, pink clouds of flamingo fill the air and the shallow waters turn turquoise.

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  • The most distant objects seen are small blue irregular clouds, which lie close to the edge of the observable universe.

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  • Within cumulonimbus clouds are strong updraft which can transport air from near the boundary layer up to the tropopause very rapidly.

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  • Astronomers detect light at sub-millimetre wavelengths in order to penetrate clouds of cosmic dust.

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  • Toward the horizon, there were the faintest wisps of early morning ghost clouds.

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  • The simple theory of the dispersion of light by small particles suffices to explain not only the blue of the zenith, but the comparative absence of small wave-lengths from the direct solar rays, and the brilliant orange and red coloration of the setting sun and of the clouds illuminated by his rays.

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  • During rainfall, or near clouds or dust layers, the magnitude of this current might well be enormously increased; its direction would naturally vary with climatic conditions.

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  • It commands a view of the elevated coast of Asia Minor towards the north, and of the Archipelago, studded with its numerous islands, on the north-west; while on the south-west is seen Mount Ida in Crete, often veiled in clouds, and on the south and south-east the vast expanse of waters which wash the African shore.

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  • Others report that, feeling himself powerless to scatter the gathered clouds, and aware of his physical feebleness, he had had the moral courage to pass in the eyes of his family, which he did not wish to afflict, as the dupe of the efforts they employed to conceal the truth from him.

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  • So dense are these " locust clouds " that they sometimes quite darken the air.

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  • They all raise their eyes towards heaven, observe the clouds, and hurl spells against the elements, so that they arouse strife amongst them and clouds of fire are driven towards the camp of the men of Ireland."

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  • The "everlasting gospel" of Joachim of Floris was a different thing from the announcement of Christ's glorious return in the clouds of heaven; the "age of the spirit" which mystics and spiritualists expected contained traits which must be characterized as "modern"; and the "kingdom" of the Anabaptists in Munster was a Satanic caricature of that kingdom in which the Christians of the 2nd century looked for a peaceful Sabbath rest.

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  • Admirable results are thus produced; as when, through a medium of cerulean blue, bright goldfish and blue-backed carp appear swimming in silvery waves, or brilliantly plumaged birds seem to soar among fleecy clouds.

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  • For about half an hour great crowds of riders, hidden by dense clouds of dust, drifted aimlessly about the plain, till at length the charge of a single squadron of the Oldenburg Dragoons (who had joined in on their own initiative) delivered on the outer French flank, brought the whole mass into motion north-eastward, and, both sides sounding the rally,Ithe engagement gradually ceased.

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  • The low clouds and drizzle made visibility difficult, and the Stroom Bank buoy could not be seen at first.

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  • When Mahomet spoke of the goodness of the Lord in creating the clouds, and bringing them across the cheerless desert, and pouring them out on the earth to restore its rich vegetation, that must have been a picture of thrilling interest to the Arabs, who are accustomed to see from three to five years elapse before a copious shower comes to clothe the wilderness once more with luxuriant pastures.

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  • The mountain before them was shaped like a cone and was so tall that its point was lost in the clouds.

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  • However much we may admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or above the fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

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  • And on its pages I saw a beautiful representation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds.

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  • Sometimes it seemed as if the black spaces were clouds.

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  • Tuff A type of pyroclastic rock which is derived from the collapse of volcanic ash clouds.

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  • Clouds swirl and raindrops dance and the sun bursts through - it 's a positive ballet of weather information !

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  • My guess is that is exactly what we have here, a display laser, or powerful spotlight, reflecting off low level clouds.

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  • The clouds contain ice crystals which refract the light to give the halo effect.

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  • The roiling clouds, losing their darkness, drew back.

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  • The Rain Keeps Falling by Clare McMahon The rain keeps falling, Falling on my saddened heart, From the deep gray clouds.

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  • The late summer 's sun was warm, and fluffy white clouds scudded across the clear blue sky.

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  • When thin clouds scud across a bright moon it is often surrounded by a bright disk and faint colored rings, a lunar corona.

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  • In spite of the wind cloud cover was only 3 oktas with the passing clouds scudding rapidly across the sky.

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  • Paddling along the coast I thought how wrong people can be - warm sunshine, water like silk, little clouds scudding along.

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  • There are even moments of drama when the county has been covered with clouds of volcanic ash and shaken by earthquakes.

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  • Still shrouded in clouds of woe I went to the count.

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  • Weary sleepless eyes squeezing tight miss clouds bathed in silvery light beams.

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  • It is a November day without clouds, and large black birds soar in a sky that is bluer than I have ever seen.

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  • A stiff southeasterly wind was sending the light clouds scudding over us.

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  • The La and Sr cause steric effects due to their very large clouds.

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  • Covered with heavy clouds, the stormy sky gave only the faintest light to the ocean 's upper strata.

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  • Behind it the fading golden sky Is streaked with the gray of evening clouds.

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  • But I only saw a first burst of stars through the thin, streaky clouds.

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  • She could see the clouds shifting as he bent his head again, watch the long striated patterns of shadow and light.

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  • But they are still tiny sparks in swirling gray clouds.

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  • After a picnic there was a grim steep climb up to an exposed ridge with clouds of fine rain swirling about.

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  • Swirls of warm wind raised small clouds of dust.

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  • The afternoon was sunny for a while but cumulus clouds were towering over the mountains.

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  • Then the clouds rise and I get uncomfortable feelings about health and safety.

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  • This condensed water vapor now takes on the form of water droplets, which then form clouds.

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  • More water vapor means more clouds means less loss of heat out into space means a warmer planet.

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  • We have used this unique data set to examine how occurrence rates of magnetic clouds vary with solar latitude and activity.

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  • The name itself is a mystery wreathed in clouds.

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  • Clouds are often included as a part of the hydrosphere, becuase they are composed mostly of water droplets.

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  • The reduced air pressure in the area caused heavy rain clouds to form.

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  • Thereducedair pressure in the area caused heavy rain clouds to form.

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  • The dark puffy clouds in the distance portend a thunder storm in our future.

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  • While some nurseries end up looking like relaxing clouds where everything from the walls to the linens is white, others are entirely outfitted in Winnie the Pooh gear or painted in bright shades of pink or yellow.

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  • Bears, snowmen, collectible figurines, toys, and clouds are often featured on purchased ornaments.

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  • You'll find an igloo-shaped cat bed, cat clouds shelves for perching and litter box furniture.

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  • Sometimes, you may hear the term "wallet in the clouds" being tossed around simultaneously with a virtual wallet.

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  • In contrast, a "wallet in the clouds" is a virtual wallet in which your information is on the provider's server.

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  • Additionally, you can use a wallet in the clouds on any electronic device.

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  • In the future, it appears as though tangible wallets will be combined with "wallet in the clouds" to enable you to use your cell phone to complete in-person purchases.

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  • Solar power is too limited because it can only be used during the daytime, clouds of pollution decrease its effectiveness.

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  • This water vapor rises, condenses and forms clouds, and then returns to the planet's surface as rain or snow.

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  • This should not be a color that factors largely into the painting, such as a blue sky, but a more subtle shade like the color of small flowers placed in the foreground, or the shadows at the base of the clouds.

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  • Painted designs such as clouds or angels are frequently used to decorate ceilings in foyers and dining rooms.

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  • Pale tan sand, soft blue skies with a few bright white clouds floating by, and aquamarine water as far as the eye can see.

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  • For example, if you are thinking of doing clouds (a popular nursery theme), you might consider a mural of a sunny garden with fluffy clouds in the sky or angels flitting in and out of thick, lush clouds.

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  • Design a mural of a misty pond including frogs and large goldfish, majestic trees, sunshine, clouds, big lily pads and ferns growing along the water's edge.

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  • The company was named Souleiado, which means "a ray of sun shining through the clouds after a rain."

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  • Clouds and rain can put a damper on your moon photo shoot.

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  • Included in the kit are angel cutouts sitting on large clouds, which provides enough room to add a symbolic element, reminiscent of your baby.

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  • There are angels holding babies, babies wrapped in blankets and angels on clouds you could add to your pages as well.

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  • An alternate method of creating clouds is to use the oval as a stencil to add light blue chalk or ink directly on white background paper.

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  • Snow begins high in the clouds as a single water crystal.

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  • It isn't until small dirt particles invade the clouds that the ice crystals become heavy enough to accumulate and fall to the ground as snow.

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  • Once they leave the clouds, snowflakes can either fall straight to the ground or get caught up in strong winds that produce blizzards.You've probably heard it said that "No two snowflakes are exactly alike."

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  • Even if it's 40 degrees at the base of the mountain, the clouds can still blanket the runs with tons of the white stuff.

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  • The most important measure is the temperature in the clouds where snowflakes are formed.

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  • Anger easily clouds judgment, so do not dwell on a pessimistic outlook, and do not jump to conclusions.

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  • The hydrosphere and atmosphere are usually also covered, giving youngsters a chance to understand the various types of clouds and how the changes in weather take place.

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  • Bringing his head out of the anxiety filled clouds and back down to the reality of first dates and their fears surrounding them may be a big comfort.

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  • Some can include special flooring, which can make the location look as if it's made out of cobblestone or you are walking on clouds.

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  • Beginning decorators can group cupcakes together into satellite cakes and frost them together to represent clouds.

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  • Adding to its scenic wonder is the fact that it rises at Lake Tear of the Clouds and allows cruisers incredible views of the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains.

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  • The gravel on the road gets flung up and can create clouds of dust with particles a large as grains of sand.

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  • At night, clouds reflect heat back to the earth.

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  • Part of that image includes rough-hewn logs on the exterior of the house and a stone chimney with puffy white clouds of smoke escaping from the warm hearth inside.

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  • When the clouds are low in the sky and the sky is gray, that's when polarized lenses may not be your best bet.

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  • Essentially, this technology helps your eyes to adjust quickly to changing conditions, and on a day when there might be a few fair weather clouds, this can be quite an advantage.

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  • A sudden break in the clouds, an errant sunbeam, or a sharp shadow can impair an athlete's performance by forcing their eyes to continually readjust to changing lighting conditions.

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  • Clouds is a puzzle game released in 2005 for Microsoft Windows.

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  • Side-scrolling your way through the stage, you shout out (by pressing the 'A' button) to try and find your fellow Care Bears hiding behind the clouds.

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  • Drifting clouds can get in the way, making this mini-game just a bit more challenging.

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  • The Star Buddies want new (specific) toys, so as they float down on clouds, you need to grab them and hand them over to the appropriate Star Buddy in time.

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  • Seeing faces in clouds is a perfect example of this.

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  • If clouds had definite shapes, would we turn our eyes to the sky as often?

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  • All characters in the game are very expressive, and you can see the levels of unhappy emotions represented by small clouds that will appear above their heads.

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  • Countless characters and scene elements are available to you, including Yoshi, Bowser, Dry Bones, magic mushrooms, platforms, clouds, and so much more.

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  • For example, in Super Mario World, the clouds, blocks, and turtles are all sprites.

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  • It occurs when the clouds become heavy with condensed water.

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  • So do other blockers like windows, smog, clouds, heavy clothing, smoke, and even sometimes window screens.

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  • Clouds and rain can represent loneliness while the sun breaking through the clouds may represent the dawning realization of love.

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  • The high concentration of these inclusions clouds the stone and turns it a rich grey or black color.

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  • Clouds are formed from pinpoint inclusions--one of the most common types of diamond flaws.

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  • Both the series and the films followed the Care Bears on their adventures in their home of Care-a-lot, located in the grand Kingdom of Caring up in the clouds.

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  • Rachelle Marie Lefevre has been apart of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Head in the Clouds.

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  • The entire poster has a dark feel with wispy fog tendrils and dark clouds in the background.

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  • Others claim they saw the earth as though viewed from outer space as they hurtled through the stratosphere, past clouds and the walls of buildings.

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  • It helps to understand by thinking of matrixing as being similar to seeing pirate ships in the clouds.

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  • The mind uses the shape of the clouds and the imagination takes over from there to assign a name to the form.

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  • Wearers report not wanting to take them off, because they feel like walking on clouds or pillows.

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  • This could feature a dolphin with wings flying among the clouds or dolphins done in the color scheme and style of the cover of your favorite fantasy novel.

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  • These designs can be styled with stardust, tracks or clouds as well as stay a single color or a rainbow of colors.

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  • When we first started the site, before the blog keyword clouds became so prevalent, we wanted to know what keywords were good for defining this music.

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  • A woman could feel like Ginger Rogers dancing on the clouds in such a nightgown.

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  • The first soundtrack released was from the movie Till The Clouds Roll By.

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  • She begins to see clouds and peers upon a girl about to start high school.

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  • As the story of Harry Potter falls into a more reflective state, though the corners are crawling with threats, the clouds have begun to collect over head and the tale of the Half-Blood Prince is only the calm before the storm.

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  • Jane is his hunter set on killing him, but fate has other plans, and passion clouds the line between who is the hunter and who is the hunted.

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  • Rumor has it that while on a plane Takahashi saw a vision of a tortoise flying amid the clouds and put his staff in charge of creating the monster he saw.

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  • Morning dawned with low-hanging clouds.

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  • A moment later, veins of light threaded through dark low clouds.

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  • The sun lingered on the horizon, as if waiting for the closing clouds.

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  • Her eyes went to the angry clouds.

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  • Light rippled through the clouds.

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  • Lightning no longer left her for the clouds.

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  • The moon was covered by clouds, and she crumpled the notes she'd taken.

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  • The timing was propitious, as black clouds had begun to roll up the valley and gather above them, the advance guard of a summer shower.

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  • The hidden sun was setting, and the white snow clouds glowed eerily, lit by the last rays of light.

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  • As he emerged into the early morning sun, he was again surprised to see clouds already forming over the eastern horizon.

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  • It was colder than usual, with the sun obscured by clouds, portending the accuracy of a forecast of snow.

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  • It was barely evening but the darkening clouds and winter season begrimed the outside as black as a slum landlord's heart.

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  • Clouds from the retreating storm looked like a triumphant army, hauling away its ordinance for another engagement—with only white-gray stragglers tagging behind.

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  • His favorites were "In His Eyes" from Jekyll and Hyde and "Chase the Clouds Away" by Chuck Mangione.

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  • In the few hours remaining before his departure, her head was so far in the clouds that she didn't even notice he said nothing about marriage.

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  • Toby clutched it and twisted in the branch's grip, until he could see the dark storm clouds moving slowly across the sky.

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  • He thought she would cry but instead she lay back on the grass, arms beneath her head, and after a time, began naming the shapes of the clouds passing across the sky.

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  • A bank of clouds tumbled down the slope to the left of him, bathing the summit in cold dampness.

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  • He pushed away his breakfast dishes and stared out the patio doors at the low hanging clouds.

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  • Mesmerized by its movement, she watched as it disappeared into the clouds.

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  • She stared up at the clouds angrily.

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  • A glance at the sky revealed darker clouds in the west.

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  • Where Damian radiated sunlight and Jonny storm clouds, Darian shifted between the two.

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  • The Black God was fighting nearby, hurling black clouds at the Others then trying not to get hit by lightning in return.

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  • His power swelled, until dark clouds blocked the desert sun.

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  • The skies were covered in billowing clouds that pulsed with power.

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  • What the fire didn't incinerate, the electrified clouds would.

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  • The fire wasn't far behind her, while the clouds had reached the tops of what trees were still standing.

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  • The Black God came into view, trailed by his storm clouds.

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  • Carmen shook her head, glancing at a bank of building clouds.

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  • Ominous black clouds belched flames and roared.

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  • The experiments of Tyndall upon precipitated clouds have been already referred to.

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  • He obtains a magic glass cage, yoked with eight griffins, flies through the clouds, and, thanks to enchanters who know the language of birds, gets information as to their manners and customs, and ultimately receives their submission.

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  • From July to November the clouds hang low on the mountains, and give moisture to the upper zone, while the climate of the lower is dry.

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  • Except such as are of coral formation, the Antilles are hilly, not to say mountainous, their summits rising in places to an elevation of 8000 ft., and nearly all, prior to their occupation by Europeans, were covered with luxuriant forest, which, assisting in the collection and condensation of the clouds brought by the trade winds, ensured its own vitality by precipitating frequent and long-continued rains; upon the fertile soil.

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  • The views of Diogenes are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of Aristophanes to Socrates.

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  • The clouds (not always caused by the south-easter) form very suddenly, and the weather on the mountain is exceedingly changeable.

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  • The relative luxuriance of the vegetation on the upper part of the mountain, compared with that of its lower slopes, is due not only to the rainfall, but to the large additional moisture condensed from clouds.

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  • Yahweh ceased to be exclusively regarded as god of the atmosphere, worshipped in a distant mountain, Horeb-Sinai, situated in the south country (negebh),and moving in the clouds of heaven before the Israelites in the desert, but he came to be associated with Israel's life in Canaan.

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  • Amongst his works may be mentioned Our National Defences (1860), War in Bulgaria, a Narrative of Personal Experience (London, 1879), Clouds in the East (London, 1876).

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  • Thus, the Eskimo are said to believe in spirits of the sea, earth and sky, the winds, the clouds and everything in nature.

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  • They are represented as endeavouring to prevent the progress of St Patrick and St Columba by raising clouds and mist.

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  • But clouds soon gathered again.

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  • Besides Stephen Petelei (Jetti, a name - "Henrietta " - Felhok, " Clouds ") and Zoltan Ambrus (Pokhdlo Kisasszony, " Miss Cobweb "; Gyanu, " Suspicion") must be mentioned especially Francis Herczeg, who has published a number of very interesting studies of Hungarian social life (Simon Zsuzsa, " Susanna Simon "; Fenn es lenn, " Above and Below "; Egy ledny tortenete, " The History of a Girl "; Idegenete kozott, " Amongst Strangers "); Alexander Brody, who brings a delicate yet resolute analysis to unfold the mysterious and fascinating inner life of persons suffering from overwrought nerves or overstrung mind (A kitlelkil asszony, " The Double-Souled Lady "; Don Quixote kisasszony, " Miss Don Quixote "; Faust orvos, " Faust the Physician "; Tiinder Ilona, Rejtelmek, "Mysteries"; Az eziest kecske, " The Silver Goat "); and Edward Kabos, whose sombre and powerful genius has already produced works, not popular by any means, but full of great promise.

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  • The air is unusually dry, owing to the proximity of the Kalahari Desert on the west and to the interception on the east by the Drakensberg of the moisture bearing clouds from the Indian Ocean.

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  • But as the day advances the clouds collect.

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  • The clouds of steam condensed to copious torrents, which, mingling with the fine ashes, proiced muddy streams that swept far and wide over the plains, aching even to the foot of the Apennines.

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  • Crossing the mountains and descending their eastern slopes, the wind becomes less saturated and warmer, so that the formation of clouds ceases.

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  • They did not, indeed, achieve their ideal, but they did succeed in producing some exquisitely lustrous glazes of the, tlamb type, rich transparent brown passing into claret color, with flecks or streaks of white and clouds of iron dust.

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  • And if he is the sea-god, we must remember that there is a heavenly as well as an earthly ocean; hence the clouds are sometimes called Tangaloa's ships.

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  • By his father's death in 1911, Mr. Wyndham came into possession of his beautiful house, Clouds, in Wiltshire.

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  • Apparently no real tradition existed among the Eastern Christians of such a personage; the myth had taken shape from the clouds of rumour as they rolled westward from Asia.

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  • The western part of the province is driest, as the rain clouds often pass over the lower levels but are caught by the eastern hills.

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  • On the left Sherman made little progress; on the right, however, Hooker and the men from the Potomac army fought and won the extraordinary "Battle above the Clouds" on Lookout Mountain, and on the 25th the Confederate centre on Missionary Ridge was brilliantly stormed by Thomas and the Army of the Cumberland.

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  • This event is referred to by Aristophanes in the Clouds (212), where the old farmer, on being shown Euboea on the map "lying outstretched in all its length," remarks, - "I know; we laid it prostrate under Pericles."

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  • Clouds, mountains, landscapes, towers, churches, trees, flowers and herbs were drawn with wonderful precision, minuteness of detail and delicacy of hand, solely to recall some specific aspect of nature or art, of which he wished to retain a record.

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  • The usual form of ice-crystals in clouds is a right hexagonal prism, which may be elongated as a needle or foreshortened like a thin plate.

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  • The calcium clouds or ilocculi thus recorded are invisible to the eye, and are not shown on direct solar photographs taken in the ordinary way.

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  • The oxidation of manganese is capable of generating a very high temperature, but it has the very serious disadvantage of causing such thick clouds of smoky oxide of manganese as to hide the flame from the blower, and prevent him from recognizing the moment when the blow should be ended.

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  • The sky was speedily full of clouds and a great rain was falling when Ahab, to escape the storm, set out in his chariot for Jezreel.

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  • The breakdown of the watershed between the Firths of Clyde and Forth exposes southern Perthshire, the counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, and nearly the whole of Fife to the clouds and rains of the west, and their climates are consequently wetter than those of any others of the eastern slopes of the country.

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  • The clear atmosphere is in its upper strata free from clouds and dust, so that the sun's rays undergo scarcely any absorption and strike down with full force on the light-brown desert soil, from which they are radiated and reflected to a great extent.

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  • Farrar's romance Gathering Clouds gives a good picture of the man and his times.

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  • As He passed out He foretold, in words which corresponded to the doom of the fig-tree, the utter demolition of the imposing but profitless Temple; and presently He opened up to four of His disciples a vision of the future, warning them against false Christs, bidding them expect great sorrows, national and personal, declaring that the gospel must be proclaimed to all the nations, and that after a great tribulation the Son of Man should appear, " coming with the clouds of heaven."

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  • He mentions "Canaria, so called from the multitude of dogs of great size," and "Nivaria, taking its name from perpetual snow, and covered with clouds," doubtless Teneriffe.

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  • Amongst those which are useful are the bee, the silk-worm, and the insect that produces lac. Clouds of locusts occasionally appear, which leave no trace of green behind them, and give the country over which they pass t he appearance of a desert.

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  • About ioo Wolf-Rayet stars are known, of which y Velorum is the brightest; they are confined to the region of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.

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  • It does not, however, seem probable that their apparent anti-galactic tendency has such a significance; in the Magellanic Clouds spiral nebulae are very abundant, a fact which shows that there is no essential antipathy between the stars and the spiral nebulae.

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  • Thus we see how, when a small hole is cut in the windowshutter of a dark room, a picture of the sun, and bright clouds about it, is formed on the opposite wall.

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  • When detached clouds are drifting rapidly across the sun, we often see the shadows of the bars of the window on the walls or floor suddenly shifted by an inch or two, and for a moment very much more sharply defined.

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  • For days in succession when it storms along the Southern California coasts and dense rain clouds blow landwards to the mountains, leaving snow or rain on their summits, it has been observed that within a few miles beyond the ridge the contact of the desert air dissipates the remaining moisture of the clouds into light misty masses, like a steam escape in cold air.

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  • In ancient Persia the rainbow was the celestial serpent, and among some African tribes it is the subterranean wealth-conferring serpent, stretching its head to the clouds, and spilling the rain in its greedy thirst.'

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  • But Italian taste was all for bold, highly-coloured; slashing statements, that any one could understand; what it wanted was a method that should be at once intel lectually impressive, and free from the usual clouds that beset the scholar's path.

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  • In the Gulf of Suez the westerly, or "Egyptian," wind occurs frequently during winter, sometimes blowing with violence, and generally accompanied by fog and clouds of dust.

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  • They make good or bad seasons, and control the vast animals who, among ancient Persians and Aryans of India, as among Zulus and Iroquois, are supposed to grant or withhold the rain, and to thunder with their enormous wings in the region of the clouds.

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  • A 20ft Jesus offered benediction from a mountain range of fabric clouds.

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  • Too little reverberation gives a " dead " acoustic whereas too much reverberation " clouds " the sound to give a reverberant acoustic.

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  • Just above them, and almost on a level with their platform, were banks of rolling clouds which constantly shifted position and changed color.

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  • Mortals who stand upon the earth and look up at the sky cannot often distinguish these forms, but our friends were now so near to the clouds that they observed the dainty fairies very clearly.

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  • In the open space between the clouds and the black, bubbling sea far beneath, could be seen an occasional strange bird winging its way swiftly through the air.

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  • On peering out all they could see was rolling banks of clouds, so thick that they obscured all else.

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  • Mother, what are the clouds made of?

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  • At first I was very sorry when I found that the sun had hidden his shining face behind dull clouds, but afterwards I thought why he did it, and then I was happy.

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  • I said, "The clouds touch the mountain softly, like beautiful flowers."

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  • In such transparent and seemingly bottomless water, reflecting the clouds, I seemed to be floating through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were a compact flock of birds passing just beneath my level on the right or left, their fins, like sails, set all around them.

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  • Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain.

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  • At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other stretchers came into view before Rostov.

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  • The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, hung low over the field of battle on the horizon.

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  • Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.

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  • He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, and mingling with one another.

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  • Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity.

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  • The sun, just bursting forth from behind a cloud that had concealed it, was shining, with rays still half broken by the clouds, over the roofs of the street opposite, on the dew- besprinkled dust of the road, on the walls of the houses, on the windows, the fence, and on Pierre's horses standing before the hut.

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  • Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts.

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  • The shot rattled against the stone of the gate and upon the wooden beams and screens, and two wavering clouds of smoke rose over the Square.

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  • It was an autumn night with dark purple clouds, but no rain.

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  • It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.

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  • Sometimes it looked as if the clouds were passing, and a clear black sky appeared.

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  • Children race across the meadows to try to beat the clouds which scud across the sky.

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  • Airplanes can be dull, and unless the in-flight movie is a real blockbuster, chances are you're going to be spending that flight staring out the window as you view a mundane plot of clouds.

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  • At Ebags, you'll find the Clouds backpack.

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  • The only difference between a true cloud design and this backpack is that the clouds here are more angular than round and "puffy".

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  • While a child might quickly outgrow her love of a popular television character, she is more likely to remain fond of flowers or clouds.

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  • A mural can be as simple as a blue sky and clouds or more intricate like a farm theme with animals and a barn.

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  • The pressures can be relentless, and finding a silver lining in the clouds of worry that fill your days can be difficult.

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  • The clouds far above were starting to swirl with hypnotic slowness, the rain beginning to fall again, and the sea beneath their feet rippling and shifting beneath the rubbery surface.

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  • The window overlooked the neighboring mountain, coated in white with clouds clinging to its peak.

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  • He staggered away from the monument and lightning connecting the woman with the clouds and dropped to his knees on the other side of the hill.

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  • It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.

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  • Upon entering the music room, she grabbed her throw pillow, sat in her usual chair and cooed, "Pleeeeze do that one about the clouds, the one you always lock the door for?"

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  • The clouds were breaking up and the wind had switched around to the south.

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  • She glanced at the low gray clouds.

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  • The weather remained ominous with dark clouds rolling in, pushed by an ever-increasing wind that churned the sky in threatening waves.

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  • As soon as the plane left the runways they were enveloped in clouds, and neither ground nor sky visible during the entire one-hour flight to Baltimore.

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  • What was supposed to be sunshine, mild temperature and puffy white clouds turned out to be intermittent showers and a sky as gray as Dean's sweat socks.

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  • Within a couple of hours, clouds blocked the moon, and the snow began again.

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  • Trees flew overhead and the sparkling clouds drifted down from the sky.

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  • A jagged bolt of lightning pierced the angry black clouds, and she moved away from the edge of the porch.

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  • If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.

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  • A lake like this is never smoother than at such a time; and the clear portion of the air above it being, shallow and darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important.

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  • It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

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  • We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which float through the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

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  • He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it.

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  • As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still.

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  • It was the same panorama he had admired from that spot the day before, but now the whole place was full of troops and covered by smoke clouds from the guns, and the slanting rays of the bright sun, rising slightly to the left behind Pierre, cast upon it through the clear morning air penetrating streaks of rosy, golden-tinted light and long dark shadows.

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  • The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semenovsk village and its knoll, and their guns boomed incessantly along their line and sent forth clouds of smoke.

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  • No one else would attempt to catch rays with the clouded sky and massive storm clouds in the distance!

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  • You see the black clouds?

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  • Jule looked at the clouds, able to feel the gateway cracking with his newfound powers.

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  • A flash of lightning jerked her attention to the clouds again.

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  • He looked up to see the stars beginning to twinkle as the clouds moved out.

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  • The late night storm had blown Wednesday's hazy whiteness east to New Jersey and the Atlantic beyond, leaving in its place a high pressure system, a sky painted deep blue and patched with just enough puffy clouds for contrast.

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  • It seemed as if those smoke clouds sometimes ran and sometimes stood still while woods, fields, and glittering bayonets ran past them.

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  • Across the lake, the beginning glow of from the late summer sun broke through the low clouds, signaling an end to the rain.

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  • The frozen sea beneath her feet was the color of tar, the black clouds above paused mid-swirl around a pop of blue sky in the storm's center.

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  • By noon, the dark clouds made the sky as dark as early evening.

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  • See those clouds; how they hang!

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  • Good Friday was exactly that - warm and sunny with only a few marshmallow clouds drifting overhead.

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  • Normally, clouds hung around the mountaintop.

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  • Although a thick layer of clouds hid the sun, the air wasn't any cooler.

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  • The whole street was full of clouds of black smoke.

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  • Toby shook his head and started forward again, wondering when Ully had lost his sense of humor.  He led them in the direction where he sensed Katie, until night and clouds rendered the jungle too dark.

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