cloud-shadows

Grenville so deeply, when a caressing breeze ruffled the treetops and filled the air with coolness from the river; a few clouds crossed the sky, and the soft cloud-shadows brought out all the beauty of the fair land below.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

I am once again on this breezy hill, watching the purple cloud-shadows sail over the level expanse of tree-tops and mangroves, having accomplished in about four hours the journey, which took nearly twelve in going up.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

‘Surely the Gods live here!’ said Kim, beaten down by the silence and the appalling sweep and dispersal of the cloud-shadows after rain.

Kim 2003

So thickly was the surface of the sea streaked with cloud-shadows that it bore the appearance of being in mourning, of being decked in the funeral colours of black and white.

Through Russia 2003

The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

White to gray, waves of orange-red running through it like cloud-shadows as Whandall watched.

The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

White to gray, waves of orange-red running through it like cloud-shadows as Whandall watched.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

The pale green fields of oats and barley rippled with shifting light, cloud-shadows scudding through the spring sunshine, driven by the breeze that bent the stems of budding grass.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

The great wagon suddenly zipped downslope, fast-forward, dodged boulders at Mach 5 in a storm of streaming cloud-shadows, and was lost in a maze of rocks.

The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

Then Juanita almost voiced an objection, as the girl muttered something over the tumbler and traced little signs over it with fingers that moved more swiftly than the cloud-shadows racing across the moon outside.

Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989