Cloud. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Cloud


Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish, A vapour, sometime like a bear, or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are the black vesper’s pageants. Shakespeare.—Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 12. (Antony to Eros.)	1
Ascending through the opening of cloud-curtains. Longfellow.—The Song of Hiawatha. (The peace pipe.)	2
Closed with a cloud. St. John.—The Revelation, Chap. x. Ver. 1.	3
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, A looming bastion fringed with fire. Tennyson.—In Memoriam, 15, V. 4, 5.	4
Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth, after he had seen the Ghost of Banquo.)	5