The shell-bursts from the Fascist anti-aircraft guns dotted the sky like cloudlets in a bad water-colour, but I never saw them get within a thousand yards of an aeroplane. |
Wafered teams of cloudlets careen warmly in rushes of opalescence. |
Away on the patriarch mountains the sunset is burning, And huge floating cloudlets, begloried with crimson, Move silently o'er with a sleepy and peace-breathing motion. |
It was a strip of flocculent, sheepy-looking, little cloudlets that suggested curliness and innocence. |
Because the material in a cloud is slowly circulating, the speed differences lead to the cloud breaking into a number of collapsing cloudlets. |
On busy news days, the entire city is awash in these cloudlets, like 50 million newspapers brought to breathing, blaring life, and then obliterated into a sea of disintegrating light and noise. |