But woolly, white cloud banks sailed lazily aloft, intensifying by contrast the blue of the sky.
Light fleeces of cloud drifted in the azure sky, but to the west heavy cloud banks threatened with rain.
The farmer considered, casting an anxious glance at the cloud bank into which the sun had sunk.
Three gleaming specks had just burst through a cloud bank to the north.
Detroit was disrupted by the same cloud bank that had bedevilled the paratroops and only 62 per cent landed within.
On the side of the mountains where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense fog that does not drop any rain.
They could fly by means of floating five-pointed stars and small cloud banks which are somehow solid enough to stand on.