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Updated: May 8, 2025
"But if I come bounding down the stairs of the Green Shield with a purse as heavy as my heart is just now why, Biberli, success puts a new face on many things, and yours shall again look at me without anxiety." The thunderclouds had gathered in the blackest masses above the Frauenthor and the Ortlieb mansion.
They wander along shining and changing valleys under a most ardent sky; they climb the purple thunderclouds, or launch the first snowflake of a blizzard; they spring from pink stepping-stone to pink stepping-stone of clouds each no bigger than a baby's hand, across great sunsets.
She turned her own eyes away, finally, and looking at the mountains saw that black thunderclouds were rolling up over the Eagle Rocks. Then the old woman said, her eyes still dropped, "I tell you how my uncle told me, seventy-five years ago. He said people are like fish in an underground brook, in a black cave.
The mountain-tops were black with thunderclouds, and along the muddy road went Morgan's Men most of them on mules which had been taken from abandoned wagons when news of the surrender came without saddles and with blind bridles or rope halters the rest slopping along through the yellow mud on foot literally for few of them had shoes; they were on their way to protect Davis and join Johnston, now that Lee was no more.
And the modern world of moods is a world of clouds, even if some of them are thunderclouds. For I have only taken here, as a convenient working model, the case of negro slavery; because it was long peculiar to America and is popularly associated with it. It is more and more obvious that the line is no longer running between black and white but between rich and poor.
Many of the most severe Calvinistic doctrines held sway in Newman's home life, and even if the atmosphere was a little less thickly charged with religious thunderclouds in the early environment of Martineau, yet certainly, from all accounts, Sunday was pre-eminently a day that "hid its real meaning and brightness behind a frowning face."
It seemed as if a gloomy multitude of heavy thunderclouds had gathered over the still, blue arm of the sea. The stifling smoke of powder darkened the clear sky like black vapors, while flashes of lightning and peals of thunder constantly illumined and shook the dusky atmosphere. Here a magazine flew through the air, there one ascended with a fierce crash towards the sky.
In the morning we were obliged to visit the city to make the necessary arrangements for our upward journey. The day was intensely hot. A bank of thunderclouds lowered heavily above the mountain, and the close, dusty streets were silent, and nearly deserted.
"Let us go back to Jarl Einar; he will fear for us," I said, sheathing the sword and girding it to me. So we went across the meadow, and even as we went a blast of cold wind came from, over the mountains, and with it whirled the black thunderclouds of the storm that had been gathering all day.
While yesterday they had permitted the unfortunate men to move forward at an easy pace, they now forced them to the utmost possible speed. Besides, the atmosphere was sultry, and the scorching sun struggled with the thunderclouds gathering in heavy masses at the north.
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