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• So this was my future home, I thought![...]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
• Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
• He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
• so great a cloud of witnesses
• The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
• Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
• The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
• The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
• The sky is clouded.
• All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
• One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
• Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
• I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.
• to cloud yarn
• the nice conduct of a clouded cane