cloude

I must comment on the fact that the asch cloude was deadly to attempt to fly thru a few days ago.

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The same day in the afternoone we sawe in the element, a cloud with a long tayle, like vnto the tayle of a serpent, which cloud is called in Italian Cion, the tayle of this cloud did hang as it were into the sea: and we did see the water vnder the sayde cloude ascend, as it were like a smoke or myste, the which this Cion drew vp to it.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

They did take a blacke hafted knife, and with the edge of the same did crosse the said taile as if they would cut it in twain, saying these words, Hold thou Cion, eat this, and then they stucke the knife on the ship side with the edge towards the said cloude, and I saw it therewith vanish in lesse than one quarter of an houre.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Whence came the cloude that veil'd the orb of nighte,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

Thys was not straynge at all; but that the moone, that still shone bryghte, did in the momente hide herself behynde a cloude: this was straynge, most passing straynge indeede.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

Inne one blacke cloude theie to the erth descende;

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Lyche a blacke fulle cloude, thatte dothe goe alonge

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

But (alas) these deuises vanished, like a litle dispersed cloude at the rysinge of the Sunne: for thinking vppon the vertue of his maistresse, his desires were soner remoued from his hart, then he was able to impresse them in the seat of his iudgement, therby to take anye certaine assuraunce.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Braste, lyke a cloude, from whence doth come the flame, 615

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

[Sidenote: Acyrologia.] _Improprietas_, when a worde nothynge at all in hys proper significacion is broughte into a sentence as a cloude: as you shall haue syxe strypes you longe for.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry