night-cloud

Poking the embers to light, Sabin saw two shahins winging westwards towards the receding bank of night-cloud, and it seemed to him a good omen.

The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

From each night-cloud, and heavily dropping morning-cloud,

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

OUR bugles sang truce -- for the night-cloud had lowered

English Songs and Ballads Various

Our bugles sang truce -- for the night-cloud had lowered

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

When the night-cloud has lower'd o'er a sorrowful day?

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered

English Songs and Ballads Various

Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower’d,

The Soldier's Dream 1909

The sun that had been gilding everything from masthead to floating spar gathered in its forces, and for one moment seemed to rest upon Liberty's torch, throwing the statue into clear relief, and then dropped rapidly behind the river's night-cloud bank, and presently lights began to glimmer far and near, the night breath rose from the water, and the wave-cradled gulls slept.

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896

In the fourth book, the capture of Satan in Paradise and his expulsion therefrom are described under figures implying the generation of a night-cloud which blots the clear sky, interferes with the moonlight, threatens disorder and ruin, but is dissipated at the coming of day.

Milton's Angels 1884