cloudbanks

But there had been no black night; there were only the cloudbanks thickening and growing heavy and dark with snow.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

But there had been no black night; there were only the cloudbanks thickening and growing heavy and dark with snow.

The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

The whole tableau was framed by black cloudbanks that pressed in on all sides.

Sun of Suns 2006

The pirates — or expatriate Aerie airmen — kept swinging in and out of the cover of the cloudbanks.

Sun of Suns 2006

The moonlight reflecting off the top of the cloudbanks was blinding, and all he could see of his pack were gleaming red coals of fire, flaming out of that field of white.

All Hallows Eve: Acknowledging our Dead 2006

First one, then two, then four suns peeked out from behind the perpetual cloudbanks of winter.

Sun of Suns 2006

The ships and cloudbanks were lit flare-green but now yellow and red lights also glowed inside the clouds.

Sun of Suns 2006

He still had the advantage here, because the dozens of flares drifting out of the cloudbanks lit only a small volume; the plan had counted on the fact that there were many smaller clouds dotting the edge of winter.

Sun of Suns 2006

Inman imagined the fading rows of ridges standing pale and tall as cloudbanks, and he built the contours of them and he colored them, each a shade paler and bluer until, when he had finally reached the invented ridgeline where it faded into sky, he was asleep.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

From the horizon it cast a bridge of fire over the Gulf and sent great streamers of light aloft into cloudbanks that glowed sulfurous.

Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000