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Clouding   /klˈaʊdɪŋ/   Listen
Clouding

noun
1.
The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky.  Synonym: clouding up.






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"Clouding" Quotes from Famous Books



... a new eagerness next day for their walk to the canon. But Prudence, looking at him with eyes that sorrow was clouding, said that she could not go. He felt a sharp new resentment against the man who was letting her suffer rather than betray himself, and he again resolved that this man must be made to "toe the mark," to "take his needings;" and that, meantime, the deceived girl must be ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... over such themes as the fatherhood of God, his love to mankind, and his wonderful gift to a lost world. The son followed in his father's footsteps. He was a hard, austere, melancholy man, undemonstrative and reticent, shutting out all brightness from his own life, and clouding many an existence going on around him. I have always thought that his unwonted presence among us that day had a purpose, and that he had come to spy out some taint of heterodoxy in Lib's tales, to reprove and condemn. He went away quietly, however, when the story ...
— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson

... Pell repeated the words as if he had not quite comprehended. Then he said to young Jones: "You said this ranch belongs to you?" What was the matter with him? Was his mind clouding? The stuff he had drunk? He put his hand to ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne

... moon has come, Miss Dearsley. If there is no chance of her clouding over, I shall ask the skipper to slip us into the thick of the fleet, ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

... that it'll be successful; remember that," warned the man, his face clouding a little. ...
— Dawn • Eleanor H. Porter

... as desired, her own face clouding again at sight of the other's darkened one. And she fairly jumped ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

... her face, clouding its former sweetness—then she smiled coldly, turned away and left him. In a kind of stupor he watched her go, her light figure disappearing by degrees, as she went up the ascending path from the sea to the house where gay music was still sounding for dancers not yet grown ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli

... have certainly had one beautiful day for their picnic, but if they don't put in an appearance pretty soon they will be caught in a rain." Seated beside Marjorie and Lucy Warner in the big porch swing, Jerry squinted at the rapidly clouding sky. ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... happened, we might indeed expect to find enormous ice-fields extending from the poles—which we do not find—but not glaciation in the tropics. Others may think of astronomical theories, and imagine a shrinking or clouding of the sun, or a change in the direction of the earth's axis. But these astronomical theories are now little favoured, either by astronomers or geologists. Professor Lowell bluntly calls them "astrocomic" ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe

... across his eyes impatiently. Brockhurst, and all the old life of it, was a subject of which he forbade himself remembrance. He had divorced himself from all that, cut himself adrift from it long ago. By an act of will, he tried to put it out of his mind now. But the fog remained—an actual clouding of his physical vision, blurring all he looked upon. It was horribly uncomfortable. He wished he was alone. Then he might have slipped down from his chair and, according to his poor capacity of locomotion, sought ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... to wrong and evil as they affect us, as anxious for the stain they leave on the offender. It is of comparatively small consequence how much we suffer; it is of much importance that none of Christ's disciples should be allowed to go on for a moment longer, with unconfessed and unjudged wrongs clouding their peace, and hindering the testimony which they might give. Let us therefore watch for each other's souls: let us consider one another to provoke to love and good works; let us in all sincerity do as Christ has done, washing each other's feet in all humility and tender ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... "Ah, yes," his face clouding at the recollection. "A young officer, Hamilton, but capable, no doubt. You have used him ...
— My Lady of Doubt • Randall Parrish



Words linked to "Clouding" :   evaporation, vaporisation, clouding up, vapor, cloud, vaporization, vapour



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