scuddings

Updated: May 6, 2025

She learned, by listening, by asking, by observing also, how to know the signs that foretell wild weather: tremendous sunsets, scuddings and bridgings of cloud, sharpening and darkening of the sea-line, and the shriek of gulls flashing to land in level flight, out of a still transparent sky, and halos about the moon.

Lafcadio Hearn - Chita: a Memory of Last Island