war-clouds

I've never had a high opinion of Turks, and when I saw the war-clouds gathering on my return to England that year, the last thing I was prepared to do was offer my services against the Russian tyrant.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

With war-clouds gathering from the direction of the red planet, the World Federation had sent Daniels and his corps of experts to this place, thinking it safe from spies.

"The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009

I had too many temporal affairs to occupy his mind to burden himself with the intricate rights, powers, and privileges of a new episcopate, sought by a few colonials scattered through the American wilderness; -- too many vexatious secular affairs in the colonies, and too heavy war-clouds darkening his European horizon.

The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

Let us look for a moment into those dense war-clouds.

Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

When the war-clouds gathered in 1812, there was no time wasted in discussing whether it would be prudent to arm the Negro, nor was there

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

And then the war-clouds passed away and the show business had to reestablish itself, precisely as every other commercial pursuit had to readjust itself to changed conditions.

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

Great clouds whirled up from the west, and others bore down from the east, and they mingled around the moon in one great aerial war until the heavens were rent asunder, and the east wind gained the mastery, sweeping the surging war-clouds away to the western sky in the dark-blue depths.

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

White hope, white courage, where the war-clouds blend.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

Yet the iron road is not built in a day, nor for a day, and of a surety there are war-clouds in the north.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

To Rochambeau, who had informed him that war-clouds which had recently appeared in Europe were dissipated (soon, it is true, to return more threatening), he expressed, in 1786, his joy at what he considered a proof that mankind was becoming “more enlightened and more humanized.

Washington and the French. III. V 1916