Meaning of storm-cloud | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of storm cloud.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“’TIS midnight now—athwart the murky air, / Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; / From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, / It shews the bending oak, the roaring stream.”

“O Isla’s maid, yon sea-bird mark, / Her white wing gleams through mist and spray, / Against the storm-cloud, lowering dark, / As to the rock she wheels away;— / Where clouds are dark and billows rave, / Why to the shelter should she come / Of cliff exposed to wind and wave?— / O maid of Isla, ’tis her home.”

“The dreariest towns I ever beheld—the tops of the islands in gloomy storm-clouds; […]”

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