Fluffy cloud

Usage examples of cumulus.

At the same time I had always known that there were creatures of the middle air, weather gods, cumulus leviathans of ampere and spore who flailed their lives away at thirty thousand feet.

The landscape rushed past in a blur, then the scramjet kicked in just as they cleared the end of the launch rail and the Navatar stood the plane on its tail, rising vertically through a scattering of patchy cumulus clouds at roach seven going on seventeen.

Est ibi cumulus lapidum et unus lapis super-positus super congestum cum vestigia canis in eo.

The waxing moon, risen early, extruded ghostlike shafts through a gash in the cumulus.

Just east of the Mississippi, when cumulus clouds obscured his view, Surn went to sleep, awakening only when the green crests of the Smoky Mountains swelled beneath them, twenty thousand cloudless feet below.

There was a deck of cumulus far below but through big breaks, the pilots could see the deeply indented coastline of the Takao area and the big concrete airdrome of Einansho.

Then shadows moved up from the bruise-black depths, shading more and more of the writhing billows of cumulus and nimbus, finally climbing into the high cirrus and pond-rippled altocumulus, but at first the shadows brought not grayness or darkness, but an infinite palette of subtleties: gleaming gold dimming to bronze, pure white becoming cream and then dimming to sepia and shade, crimson with the boldness of spilled blood slowly darkening to the rust-red of dried blood, then fading to an autumnal tawny russet.

The cloud was broken cumulus, a legacy of the frontal system with endless altostratus riding on the cold air.

On the horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli.

Certain other facts, however -- for example, that a cumulus or cirrostratus cloud floated over the scene of the crime on the day of a particular homicide, or that the telephone wires in front of the house where the crime took place are made of aluminum or copper -- can be classified as nonessential.

The columns and pillars were towering mountains of cumulus and cumulonimbus, their anvil-shaped bases disappearing in the darkening depths hundreds or thousands of kilometers below my floating kayak, their rounded summits billowing high into the halo-tinged cirrostratus hundreds or thousands of kilometers above me.

Over all the islands the trade wind blew white puffs of cumulus and the surf hammered patiently at the black rocks and white beaches.

Below, the late moon lighted a few puffs of cumulus, and the surf broke in delicate rings on the coral.

Darting out of the littoral cumulus buildup, the Security Bureau craft checked its position over a gutted and charred Nice, then climbed southeastward over the Mediterranean.

Lee and Johnson turned their Dauntlesses into fighters with guns at both ends, and in a wrapped-up, heavy-gutted, low-altitude swirl of wings and props and stringing tracers, with the horizon usually vertical and the ocean frequently overhead, shot down three of the overconfident Zeros before ducking into the friendly cumulus.