cloudless

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Mostly cloudless, the hint of the sun's light on the horizon it gradually deepened to the most wondrous deep blue.

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  • The sky was cloudless, the air in the 60s and a stiff breeze was booting the mature petals from their flowers, the white cherry petals drifting across the walk and onto the wind-whipped basin, glimmering in the sun, like so much Spring snow upon the cool water. —  The Swamp
  • Mostly cloudless, the hint of the sun's light on the horizon it gradually deepened to the most wondrous deep blue. —  The House & other Arctic musings
  • But although blue held the upper heavens--cloudless blue of July--the sunshine that reached the ship was murky, almost copper-coloured; for it pierced through a cloud of denser smoke that rolled continuously along the western horizon from the burning houses of San Sebastian Sergeant Wilkes and his men, halting on the lower slope of the mountain where it fell away in sand-dunes to the estuary of the Urumea, had the whole flank of the fortress in view. —  Corporal Sam and Other Stories
  • Above us was a brilliant blue sky--cloudless; every detail of the rock crest upon which we stood was clear. —  In Indian Mexico (1908)
  • The day was clear and cloudless--the air almost as balmy as the air of spring. —  The Fatal Glove
 

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unclouded ·  wintry ·  windless ·  sunny ·  balmy ·  cloudy ·  azure ·  autumnal ·  rainy ·  limpid ·  starry ·  humid
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