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Cloud bank

noun

A layer of clouds seen from a distance.

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"Cloud bank" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the clouds beyond the deep-set window were gloriously ablaze with a brilliance softly diffused. The cloud bank was deep, and they felt the craft under them sink slowly, steadily into the misty embrace. It thinned below them to drifting vapor, and the first hazy shadows of the ground showed through from far beneath. Their altitude, the flyer knew, was ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... the day, still seeing that low shore almost like a cloud bank on their right, but nothing save water ahead of them. Henry was sure that it was not above sixty miles across the lake, but he calculated that they had been blown about a great deal in the storm, ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler

... seaman's mechanical watchfulness. The noise of the tom-toms and the dancing from the village behind him had died away, and nothing but the sounds from the bush, and the din of the surf, remained to show that the world was alive. The moon, too, had been smothered by a cloud bank, and night lay huddled close round him, with a texture like ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... on all through the day, still seeing that low shore almost like a cloud bank on their right, but nothing save water ahead of them. Henry was sure that it was not above sixty miles across the lake, but he calculated that they had been blown about a great deal in the storm, and for all they ...

— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler