cloud-compelling

Then he supplied him with the finest tobacco that ever ascended in spiral incense to the cloud-compelling Jove.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

This strangely isolated wall, left standing by the denudation that swept away the containing stone, had been broken by perpendicular rifts into four distinct sections; the colour became whiter as it neared the coping, and each rock was crowned with a capping that sparkled like silver in the sudden glance of the “cloud-compelling” sun.

The Land of Midian 2003

Quite suddenly the shock wave swept upon them and bowled them flat on their backs like the impotent mortals who in ancient times were swatted by the hand of cloud-compelling Zeus.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The wonderful power which he so boldly exercised, of assembling doubts and objections, had tempted him jocosely to assume the title of the {Greek expression} Zeus, the cloud-compelling Jove; and in a conversation with the ingenious Abbe

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

Long hung the contest doubtful, for though a heavy shower of rain, sent by the "cloud-compelling Jove," in some measure cooled their ardor, as doth a bucket of water thrown on a group of fighting mastiffs, yet did they but pause for a moment, to return with tenfold fury to the charge.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The cloud-compelling meerschaums were produced, and they sat in high-backed chairs, watching the thin wreaths of smoke as they curled upwards to the skylight.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

Schelling -- _Wissenschaften_ -- is the key-note, and _English Traits_ is the record of impressions received during the _Sturm und Drang_, or rather 'cloud-compelling' days of the _Dial_ and _Essay_ developments.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud-compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud-compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.

Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922

Remember all the altering of manuscript and proof -- and remember how the obscurities used to fly away before your cloud-compelling, when you were the Jove of the criticisms!

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907