Alec, sitting on the windowsill and looking like a thunder-cloud, scowled as the door shut behind her. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)
It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! ❋ Unknown (2008)
The small troops of horse which from time to time issued forth from these bodies, resembled the flashes of lightning passing from one thunder-cloud to another, which communicate to each other by such emissaries their overcharged contents. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A black thunder-cloud rushed up out of the South, and seemed to leap all the arc of the sky, in a single instant. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It has been a nightmare hanging over me like a horrible black thunder-cloud; a great cliff miles high, with its top hid in the clouds, which I had to climb, and dare not. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Beggar or rich, he would still have to face his mother, to go through that meeting, to tell that tale, perhaps, to hear those reproaches, the forecast of which had weighed on him like a dark thunder-cloud for two weary years; to wipe out which by some desperate deed of glory he had wandered the wilderness, and wandered in vain. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nina had listened to her father with her face unmoved, with her half-closed eyes still gazing into the night now made more intense by a heavy thunder-cloud that had crept down from the hills blotting out the stars, merging sky, forest, and river into one mass of almost palpable blackness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Rueckertus and Hermannus, take Athene for “wisdom in person;” nor with Welckerus and Prellerus, for “the goddess of air;” nor even, with Muellerus and mathematical certainty, for “the Morning – Red:” but they say that Athene is the “black thunder-cloud, and the lightning that leapeth therefrom”! ❋ Unknown (2006)
There are certain scenes, cannily termed 'kerspeckle', which print themselves upon Memory, and which endure as long as Memory lasts - a thunder-cloud bursting upon the Alps, a night of stormy darkness off the Cape, an African tornado; and, perhaps, most awful of all, a solitary journey over the sandy Desert. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Rooker had sat beside the speakerphone, chin propped on his fists, his face thunder-cloud dark, brooding silently through the entire conversation. ❋ Jensen, Kathryn, 1949- (2005)
Brautus looked like a thunder-cloud, standing on the steps with his fists on his hips. ❋ Lucy Blue (2005)
The next morning the parson had been told all that was required of him, and he came down to prayers as black as a thunder-cloud. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Norman sat at his desk, as black as a thunder-cloud, with his eyes turned intently at the paper before him; but so agitated that he could not even pretend to write. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now the storm was at its height; the black thunder-cloud had broken into many, which assumed the wildest shapes and the strangest colours, some of them unspeakably glorious; the rain poured in a deluge, and more than one waterspout was seen at no great distance: an immense rabble is hurrying in one direction; a multitude of men of all ranks, peers and yokels, prize-fighters and ❋ Unknown (2004)
We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
