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Example sentences for "dark cloud"

  • Like the sun breaking out from behind a dark cloud,-- "Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.

  • My hope is, that when they read these pages they will see that a large pan of the church has been for a long time under a dark cloud of error, and that their humane instinct is but a dim reflection of Eternal Love.

  • It will be like a burst of sunlight from behind a dark cloud.

  • A dark cloud, and enlightening the night.

  • Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night.

  • It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites by giving them a great light.

  • Elizabeth needed no argument to make her weary of a war which hung like a dark cloud on the morning of her reign.

  • Then let joy alone be remembered now, Let our sorrows go sleep awhile; Or if thought's dark cloud come o'er the brow, Let Love light it up with his smile!

  • Then, a quarter of a mile down the creek, there came up a dark cloud of smoke.

  • Between the tents and lodges there burned a couple of dozen fires whose rising smoke, glowing in the evening sun, spread out above in a dark cloud, through which the scene below looked more phantasmal.

  • There was no dark cloud on that open brow, no gloomy falling of those mild, blue eyes, no sad contortion about the mouth, which otherwise so readily and often opened in friendly smiles, but which was now closed so fast.

  • As a dark cloud in the sky when it comes on to blow after heat, even so did Diomed son of Tydeus see Mars ascend into the broad heavens.

  • A dark cloud of grief fell upon Achilles as he listened.

  • A dark cloud of grief fell upon Hector as he heard, and he made his way to the front clad in full armour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always seemed; committed suicide; dark ages; dark blue; dark chamber; dark colored; dark eyes; dark face; dark figure; dark gray; dark lady; dark lane; dark line; dark purple; dark purplish; dark reddish; dark spot; dark yellow; darker shade; hard sauce; main body; personal deity; rapid fire; she lay; suddenly thought; theoretical knowledge