The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury Of Terms & Literary Quotations - Plot & Excerpts
the train is rolling eastward and the changing wind veers for the moment from an easterly quarter, and we face east, like Swedenborg’s angels, under a sky clear save where far to the northeast over distant mountains whose purple has faded, lies a mass of almost pure white clouds, suddenly, as by a light in an alabaster lamp, illumined from within by gold lightning, yet you can hear no thunder.... MALCOLM LOWRY, Under the Volcano When the sky was furrowed with whispy [sic] bands of altostratus cloud the colour ranged from the most delicate pearl-pinks to the deepest fiery red. Sometimes it was so breathtakingly beautiful that Donald and I rushed for our cameras to capture its ephemeral glory. JOHN LISTER-KAYE, The White Island It was a cloudy evening and as we arrived the sun disappeared into a glowing velvet bank of high cumulus cloud which obliterated Raasay from our view. JOHN LISTER-KAYE, The White Island It was quieter than the quietest night. And the clouds drifted across the sky with the same terrible, icy, inhuman slowness.
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