What is "dustcloud"

Usage examples of "dustcloud".

Out near the horizon on her right side, a dustcloud rose where forty-four hitches of grubbers were plowing their horny snouts along, breaking up the earth so the seeders they pulled could drop their load into the furrows.

He caught a flashing glimpse, through a jagged tear in the dustcloud, of the line of hills on the other side the valley.

And to the watchers on the walls, the dustcloud which overlay the column seemed to stretch to the end of the world.

Outside was a darker night than ordinary, for a great dustcloud borne along the tropopause had veiled the stars.

There was just enough light for Holger to see a dustcloud a mile or so down the road.

Of these we shall only describe here the exploits of the fine force of cavalry which, after a ride of a hundred miles, broke out of the heart of that reddish dustcloud and swept the Boer besiegers away from hard-pressed Kimberley.

He pointed through the blown dustclouds at a low gray shape on the horizon.

Federates spread out to join battle, the high-altitude scouts continued to send in word of settlements bombed to dustclouds, life and structures wiped from VeeRon with callous, methodical deliberation.

When the Earth condensed from the primal dustcloud the chemical elements and compounds that formed it separated into layers: the denser materials sank to the centre of the Earth and the lighter ones floated to the top, much as a layer of light oil floats on denser water.

Most scientists, if they had to bet, would have backed the existence of other solar systems, because the collapsing dustcloud mechanism could easily get going almost anywhere there's cosmic dust, and there are a hundred billion stars in our own galaxy, let alone the billions upon billions of others in the universe, all of which once were cosmic dust.

Random jigglings triggered a collapse of the dustcloud, with everything heading for roughly, but not exactly, the same central point.

If anything, it seemed to direct itself through the densest parts of the interstellar medium, and was heading in the general direction of a dustcloud rich in organic compounds.