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Storm cloud   /stɔrm klaʊd/   Listen
Storm cloud

noun
1.
A heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm.






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"Storm cloud" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he finds the Thistle useful. For "a beauty has the Thistle, when every delicate hair arrests a dew-drop on a showery April morning, and when the purple blossom of a roadside Thistle turns its face to Heaven and welcomes the wild bee, who lies close upon its flowerets on the approach of some storm cloud until its shadow be past away. For with unerring instinct the bee well knows that the darkness is but for a moment, and that the sun will shine out again ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... up the steep path, she had reached this bench, when the rushing storm cloud shut out the last of the light, and the hills shook with a deafening crash of thunder. Instinctively the girl turned her pony's head from the trail, and, following the cliff, reached the sheltered nook, just as the storm burst ...
— The Shepherd of the Hills • Harold Bell Wright



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