Within my breast no sorrows can abide; I feel the great world's spirit through me thrill, And as a cloud I drift before the wind, Or with the random swallow take my will.
Clouds upon clouds of dust enveloping The lofty gates of the proud capital.
Lute of Jade
The bird rose up in the air in its agony and vanished into the
clouds, and the youth fell on to the broad branches of the apple-tree.
Yellow Fairy Book
"Perhaps the storm won't burst to-night," said Joe; "the
clouds are very high."
Five Weeks in a Balloon
He found the cold, grey
cloud wilderness rising towards him with a wide, slow steadiness.
The War in the Air
Immediately after quitting it, we were enveloped in
clouds of snow.
Tramp Abroad
He breathes his rage in terrific squalls, and overwhelms his realm with an inexhaustible welter of
clouds. He strews the seeds of anxiety upon the decks of scudding ships, makes the foam-stripped ocean look old, and sprinkles with gray hairs the heads of ship-masters in the homeward-bound ships running for the Channel.
Mirror of the Sea
These mediators and mixers we detest--the passing
clouds: those half-and- half ones, that have neither learned to bless nor to curse from the heart.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Carried along a few hundred feet above the ground she was better able to appreciate the Titanic proportions of the storm than when she had flown in the comparative serenity of the zone above the
clouds, for now she could distinctly see the effect of the wind upon the surface of Barsoom.
The Chessmen of Mars
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.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
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.
War and Peace
A terrific east wind swept away the groups of
clouds which had been so long gathering, and at night the semi-disc of the orb of night rode majestically amid the soft constellations of the sky.
From The Earth To The Moon
We must have covered a great many thousand square miles of territory, and yet we had seen nothing in the way of a familiar landmark, when from the heights of a mountain-range we were crossing I descried far in the distance great masses of billowing
clouds.
Pellucidar
"I will give you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the
clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
Fables
The foremost
clouds, lowering and black as soot-laden smoke, rushed with extraordinary swiftness over the sky.
Anna Karenina