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English
Noun
storm-cloud (plural storm-clouds)
- Dated spelling of storm cloud.
1810, Margaret Nicholson, edited by John Fitzvictor , “Fragment. Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé.”, in Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found amongst the Papers of That Noted Female Who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786, Oxford, Oxfordshire: J Munday, →OCLC, page 11:’TIS midnight now—athwart the murky air, / Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; / From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, / It shews the bending oak, the roaring stream.
1820, Walter Scott, “The Maid of Isla”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC, pages 113–114:O Isla’s maid, yon sea-bird mark, / Her white wing gleams through mist and spray, / Against the storm-cloud, lowering dark, / As to the rock she wheels away;— / Where clouds are dark and billows rave, / Why to the shelter should she come / Of cliff exposed to wind and wave?— / O maid of Isla, ’tis her home.
1881 May 31, John Muir, “Siberian Adventures”, in William Frederic Badè, editor, The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition in 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, published 1917, →OCLC, pages 36–37:The dreariest towns I ever beheld—the tops of the islands in gloomy storm-clouds;