rain-cloud

It's an early summer day in Seattle, broad white of overcast but not rain-cloud, and one can see the ocean from the gallery building in which we stand observing Vrimjoet's gruesome handiwork in the trendy and cobblestoned part of downtown.

Ming Holden: What Does Ecuador Have to Do With Seattle? 2010

This leads to the cenote, or well, into which human sacrifices and jade and gold ornaments were thrown to appease the rain-cloud god, Chac.

Chichen Itza, the Colosseum, and Statue of Christ the Redeemer: Three of the 7 'New' Wonders of the 2008

Why drag a somber rain-cloud across a bright blue sky?

HBCUs Marian 2008

This leads to the cenote, or well, into which human sacrifices and jade and gold ornaments were thrown to appease the rain-cloud god, Chac.

Travel Guide: the Seven Historical and Cultural Sites in Mexico 2007

But when Bert went down to the gallery the world was empty and still, a clear inky-blue sky above and a rippled veil of still, thin sunlit cirrus below, through which one saw a racing drift of rain-cloud, and never a glimpse of sea.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

For a moment her gaze intersected mine, like those travelling skies on stormy days which hurry after a rain-cloud that moves less rapidly than they, overtake, touch, cover, pass it and are gone; but they do not know one another, and are soon driven far apart.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

The enchanted ceiling above them echoed Harry's mood; it was a miserable rain-cloud grey.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

The wind, rushing ahead of the rain-cloud, caught up the dust in the streets and advanced across the town.

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A rain-cloud comes down mingled with hail; the Tyrian train and the men of

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

On them, while the beaters run up and down, and the lawns are girt with toils, will I pour down a blackening rain-cloud mingled with hail, and startle all the sky in thunder.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil