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The sky was blue all around the horizon, but overhead a cumulo-stratus grew early; it seemed to be drifting to the south and later to the east.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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We started in bright warm sunshine and with the mountains wonderfully clear on our right hand, but towards the end of the march clouds worked up from the east and a thin broken cumulo-stratus now overspreads the sky, leaving the land still visible but dull.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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Shortly after we started mist formed about us, waxing and waning in density; a slight southerly breeze sprang up, cumulo-stratus cloud formed overhead with a rather windy appearance (radial E. and W.).
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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Certain of the included species mimic terrestrial cloud-scenery -- now appearing like fleecy cirrus transpenetrated with the red glow of sunset -- now like prodigious masses of cumulo-stratus hanging heavily above the horizon.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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6 A. M., a line of small cumulo-stratus, extending east and west, with a clear horizon north and south 10° high.
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett
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