What is "stormclouds"

Usage examples of "stormclouds".

IX A figure of black rock by sunbeams crowned Through stormclouds, where the volumed shades enfold An earth in awe before the claps resound And woods and dwellings are as billows rolled, The barren Nourisher unmelted shed Death from the looks that wandered with the dead Out of the realms of gold, In famine for her lost, her lost unfound.

Thirty minutes later, as they climbed to the bottom of a jagged ridge, the stormclouds scudded overhead, obscuring the moon.

Overhead turbulent stormclouds churned, gray, shot through with sudden flickers of violent white lightning.

Karila looked up into the smoky stormclouds and saw eyes of electric blue piercing the dark haze.

But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word.

There were still rumbled fragments of stormclouds in the sky, blotting out the sun from time to time.