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More "Thundercloud" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cruel and so hard, sat silent in black gloom. The stern and sullen mood, from which had dropped but one fierce flash of anger, still hung above the heat of his mind, like a dark rack of thundercloud. It would have burst anew into a fury of rebuke, had he but known his daughter was listening at the door, while the colloquy went on. It might have flamed violently, had his tenant made any further attempt to change his purpose. She had not. She had ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... her money?" he thought. "God knows there's little enough of it left. But I can't tell her that. If I do she'll sell everything, hand me the cash and tell me she's sorry to be such a burden. She'll sit like a thundercloud in my house." ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... the Son himself, if he were caught in flight, or if, what was nowise improbable, his delivery back was required and obtained? Sure enough, there had risen on the otherwise serene heaven of the Schiller Family a threatening thundercloud; which, any day, might discharge itself, ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle
... long, hot days of the armistice, a kind of dull quiet had appeared to brood over the city and its forts and over the camps and entrenchments of the besiegers. It had been something like a thundercloud, which was all the while growing blacker and hanging lower, and before the end of the first day of renewed hostilities the anxious watchers in the city houses could hear something which sounded like distant thunder. It was the occasional roar of a gun from one or another of ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard
... astonished in my life as I was at the change in the little bedroom in our house which has that pale yellow-and-white stripe on the wall. It was a north room, and the old wall was a forlorn slate, like a thundercloud. My little artist here, with her eye for colours, instantly announced that she would get the sunshine into that room. And so she did—with no more potent a charm than that fifteen-cent paper and a fresh coat ...
— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond
... kiss me. Okh, my soul, it is hard for thee, I know: but then, life is not easy for any one. That is why I used to envy the flies; here, I thought, is something that finds life good; but once, in the night, I heard a fly grieving in the claws of a spider,—no, I thought, a thundercloud hangs over them also. What is to be done, Fedya? but ...
— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff
... the fellers with the guns, if they have quit," commented Vittum. "They might as well try to lick the lightning in a thundercloud." ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... growling together in talk. The slightest order was received with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another. Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thundercloud. ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... wisdom of life he is wiser than a thousand men who doubt. He stands upon the earth and feels the wind and rain in his face and he knows that they are real. He sees the sun by day and the stars by night. He sees the hot lightning play out of the dark thundercloud. He hears the sounds of nature and the cries of human joy and pain. These he knows are real. He lies down on the cool earth at night and has no fear that it will prove illusory or fail him while he sleeps. In the morning the firm ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer
... The air hangs sultry as in mid-July. Look forth, Claire; moves not some big thundercloud Athwart the sky? My ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus
... along," he said, grimly, "or he'll take your head off. Lord, we are going to have a storm. I see a thundercloud gathering just below the rim ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... soon know the best or worst; for, far away to the west, dark, portentous as a thundercloud—spread out like the wings of mighty armies—moving like a Fate over the bright sky, comes on the ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... resurrection of our Lord, may be legitimately expanded so as to cover the whole ground of devout men's sorrows and calamities. Sorrow is the first stage, of which the second and completed stage is transformation into joy. Every thundercloud has a rainbow lying in its depths when the sun smites upon it. Our purest and noblest joys are transformed sorrows. The sorrow of contrite hearts becomes the gladness of pardoned children; the sorrow of bereaved, empty hearts ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... room of the Lancet, his glasses slightly askew on his florid face. He had climbed through the entrance lock ten minutes before, shaking snow off his cloak and wheezing like a boiler about to explode; now he faced the patrol ship's crew like a small but ominous black thundercloud. Across the room, Jack Alvarez was staring through the viewscreen at the blizzard howling across the landing field below, a small satisfied smile on his face, while Tiger sulked with his hands jammed into his trousers. Dal sat by himself feeling very much alone, with ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse
... Haskers was sore when he forked over that money," was Ben's comment. "No wonder he's been looking like a thundercloud lately." ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... a movement close to me where I lay on the ground, and, like the lightning out of the thundercloud, there came the click of steel on flint and I breathed soundlessly. It ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... end was indeed at hand. On the 23d of May, 1783, only a few months before the Briton left our shores never to return but by the courtesy of the Republic, a thundercloud, such as the season brings in New England, ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
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