"Cloudiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his way of life connected him with the licentious and dissolute; and he affected the airs and gaiety of a man of pleasure; but his dress was always deficient; scholastick cloudiness still hung about him; and his merriment was sure to produce ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... murder and who undoubtedly would have been convicted, was positively identified by the wife of the murdered man, the woman declaring that she saw him at a certain hour of the evening passing in front of the house. The Weather Records showed conclusively that, at that hour, owing to the excessive cloudiness of the atmosphere, it would have been impossible for the woman to identify the suspect, even at half ...
— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
... ideal—-not too cold. Though the sun was out, there was some cloudiness, yet without a sign of rain or snow. The field was in excellent shape for a ...
— The High School Freshmen - Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports • H. Irving Hancock
... marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); cloudiness is persistent and extensive ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... alledged by our critical examiner is of that stamp, which is certain to include me in the class of profound writers. The place so offensive for its cloudiness, is, ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. • Theophilus Cibber
... writin' so hard for, Mr. Gael?" Joan voiced the question wistfully on the height of a long breath. She drew it from a silence which seemed to her to have filled this strange, gay house for an eternity. For the first time full awareness of the present cut a rift in the troubled cloudiness of her introspection. She had been sitting in her chair, listless and wan, now staring at the flames, now following Wen Ho's activities with absent eyes. A storm was swirling outside. Near the window, Prosper, a figure ...
— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... hours longer than the other, he said,—six hours in all. This is the experimentum crucis. Do you see any cloudiness in it? ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
