1 The sky, swollen with the clouds that announce a thaw, hung as low as before a summer storm.
2 Ladies, there will pass among you two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and-- But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult of clapping hands and cheering voices.
3 Mrs. Merriwether alighted, her bonnet ribbons shaking like sails in a storm.
4 It was as though a small, dark cloud had appeared in the northwest, the first cloud of a summer storm.
5 The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large, sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
6 As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distant thunder of an approaching storm.
7 They were swarthier than ever from four years' exposure to sun and storm, thinner, more wiry, and the wild black beards they brought back from the war made them seem like strangers.
8 She did so many things a husband should not permit, according to his views, but if he ordered her to stop them, argued or even criticized, a storm broke on his head.
9 But her presence in the house made Aunt Pitty a storm center, for both Scarlett and Melanie took that to mean that she sided with India.
10 Sobs shook her, and she bowed to them like a tree in a dry storm.
11 A black thunder-shower was followed by a dust storm which turned the sky yellow with the hint of a coming tornado.
12 Kennicott's storm had not come.
13 She was drowsy, hemmed in by the storm.
14 Through her storm she was, to the eye, sitting quietly with her fingers between the pages of a baby-blue book on home-dressmaking.
15 The next day, the storm crashed.