overcast

• The sky overcast--a profound, deathlike tranquillity sleeping over the environs! —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• Even the sky was overcast, and a cutting east wind chilled Christie through and through. —  Christie's Old Organ Or, "Home, Sweet Home"
• But one night the sky became overcast, and he would have been compelled to halt had he not previously laid his course by several huge icebergs which towered up in the far distance When he had passed the last of these bergs, however, he began to hesitate in his movements, and Attim, trotting quietly by his side, looked inquiringly up into his face once or twice with the obvious question, "What's the matter?" —  The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
• The sky was overcast, and heavy undulations began to roll in towards the shore. —  The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa
• The hitherto blue sky was overcast, and the scud flew rapidly along, as if impelled by a hurricane You youngsters will have to look out for yourselves before long," said Tom Ringold, the boat-steerer, who had acted the part of Neptune. —  Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler

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