Meaning of cloudcast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Overcast.
2. Cast by clouds.

Examples

“[Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky.”

“Fit ending to the cloudcast day. But ah! that was a golden time I spent beneath yon giant lime (And e'en to-day as I look⟳ back Through the dark haze of grief and pain That hangs o'er true devotion's track, I'd fain live⟳ o'er it all again, For […])”

“[…] the sun's warm rays / Shine⟳ out to welcome⟳. Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain⟳," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine⟳ on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!”

“[…] one leafless / Cloudcast morning he appeared to me, / Taking time off from his rind-research / To spread⟳ his chestnut throat and sing⟳ / Outside my window.”

“One never gets angry at a cloudcast sky, because to be overcast is not the true nature of the sky. It is other factors that make⟳ it overcast. Similarly, anger is not natural to sattvas; it is the consequence of some other causes.”

“... as when a cloudcast day turns gloriously sudden at sunset's end⟳.”

“... frowns come⟳ and go / Like⟳ cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow⟳.”

“Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face⟳ up in surprise⟳ when some of them seemed to come⟳ to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.”

“[…] die⟳ in the shadows cloudcast / Darken the night […]”

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