Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...cloud-compelling deity who rules...
Wafted like a cloud at sunset...
COOL and delightful the morning, never a cloud in the sky; Romeo, gorgeous with lilacs, pawing impatient near by. Cans and umbrellas and boxes, maidens in dainty array...
...transparency about some of his ill-concealed motives, which makes his success the more wonderful; for people do not always attain their ends when they are seen through, nor do their friends like to admit that dust has been adroitly thrown into their eyes without their perceiving the cloud containing the tiny atoms which for a time obscured their vision...
Brilliant indeed was the appearance of Joaquin Miller (a truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that...