It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

Prevot had said that the searchlights would be bounced off the clouds at 2230 hours, `` which gives us time to get settled in position ''.

An agreeable ease suffused Vernon and the passengers of the tallyho, from which there issued clouds of smoke.

Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).

High altitude forests are especially vulnerable as they are often surrounded by clouds and fog which are more acidic than rain.

Halman helps Frank Poole infect the monolith ( which it once served ) with a computer virus ; as the life-forms in Jupiter's clouds were sacrificed to make Jupiter into a sun to warm Europa, it is feared that humanity would in turn be sacrificed for the new life on Europa.

This viewpoint also admits the possibility of sub-brown dwarfs, which have planetary masses but form like stars from the direct collapse of clouds of gas.

* High velocity clouds, clouds of neutral hydrogen are " raining " down on the galaxy, and presumably have been from the beginning ( this would be the necessary source of a gas disk from which the disk stars formed ).

Diffuse gas clouds, however, readily collide to produce shocks which in turn stimulate bursts of star formation.

It is more transparent to far-infrared, which can be used to observe the interior regions of giant molecular clouds and galactic cores in great detail.

The spacecraft measured the atmospheric composition of Jupiter and directly observed ammonia clouds, which seem to be created by an outflow from the lower depths of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The most vivid image of this is in the evaporation of water from the ocean, which forms clouds.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

They base this belief on, which says that, along with " the dead in Christ ", " we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ".

Movement of dry air into strong thunderstorms over continents can increase the frequency of hail by promoting evaporational cooling which lowers the freezing level of thunderstorm clouds giving hail a larger volume to grow in.

The E < sub > s </ sub > layer ( sporadic E-layer ) is characterized by small, thin clouds of intense ionization, which can support reflection of radio waves, rarely up to 225 MHz.

In 1925, C. F. Wilson proposed a mechanism by which electrical discharge from lightning storms could propagate upwards from clouds to the ionosphere.

At least two fundamental non-terrestrial energy sources have been proposed: solar-powered energy generation ( unhampered by clouds ), either directly by solar cells or indirectly by focusing solar radiation on boilers which produce steam to drive generators ; and electrodynamic tethers which generate electricity from the powerful magnetic fields of some planets ( Jupiter has a very powerful magnetic field ).

She does so by ascending on a flying tire until she reaches a structure resembling clouds, into which she disappears, although in the film version of Cats she ascends with Old Deuteronomy and then she walks up a giant metal hand to the Heaviside layer.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

The exception to the ionized gas distribution are HII regions which are bubbles of hot ionized gas created in molecular clouds by the intense radiation given off by young massive stars and as such they have approximately the same vertical distribution as the molecular gas.

The clouds strike Cherrapunjee perpendicularly and the low flying clouds are pushed up the steep slopes.

He would then spiral up through the clouds to rendezvous with strike aircraft and either lead the strike into the targets or describe the target location to the fighter-bombers.

The boats of America's trailer sailors in 1961 will be coddled on clouds as they are hauled to new horizons.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

When clouds are present, the loss rate of SO < sub > 2 </ sub > is faster than can be explained by gas phase chemistry alone.

During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes form dense dust clouds that obscure the sun ; however, sunny days are the norm year round.

Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.

In his letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes, " The Lord himself will descend from heaven ... and the dead in Christ will rise first .” But he adds that “ we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ." Th.

" Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Cold electrodes can also spontaneously produce electron clouds via thermionic emission when small incandescent regions ( called cathode spots or anode spots ) are formed.

The constellation contains a number of molecular clouds ( the Chamaeleon dark clouds ) that are forming low-mass T Tauri stars.

Filament cavities are cooler clouds of gases suspended above the Sun's surface by magnetic forces.

Many studies have found that certain fears ( e. g. animals, heights ) are much more common than others ( e. g. flowers, clouds ).

He predicted disastrous economic damage from any restrictions on fossil fuel use, and argued that the natural world and its weather patterns are complex and ill-understood, and that little is known about the dynamics of heat exchange from the oceans to the atmosphere, or the role of clouds.

Stars are created within galaxies from a reserve of cold gas that forms into giant molecular clouds.

Under this scenario, deprived of nutrients, marine phytoplankton would decline, as would sulfate cloud condensation nuclei, and the high albedo associated with low clouds.

The clouds bulged downward and burst suddenly into a great black funnel.

Now, roaring up in great oily clouds of smoke and flames, the fierce heat quickly drove us to the stern where we huddled like suffocating sheep, not knowing what to do.

She remembered, suddenly, a night of savage moonlight and scudding clouds when she and Adelia, having dared each other, had stolen out of their great safe house and come here, hand in hand, hoping and fearing ghosts.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

" Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped … Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations … Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you .” 14: 2-5 In Matthew, Jesus says, " The sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts, high liquid water content, great vertical extent, large water droplets, and where a good portion of the cloud layer is below freezing.

Known in the Middle East by various names, including the khamsin, this dry, sirocco-style wind is usually accompanied by great dust clouds.

" Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

:* Species cumulus congestus ( Cu Con )-ICAO towering cumulus ( Tcu ): Cumuliform clouds of great vertical size, usually with dark-grey bases, and capable of producing severe turbulence and showers of moderate to heavy intensity ( C < sub > L </ sub > 2 ).

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus states that after the time of tribulation and the sign of the sun, moon and stars going dark the son of man would be seen arriving in the clouds with power and great glory.

Virgil wrote that she " had her feet on the ground, and her head in the clouds, making the small seem great and the great seem greater.

" In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.

As these clouds appeared their darkest, however, two events in the fall of 1977 helped reverse the trend and started the league back on the path to the great health it enjoys today.

They continued to fall in great clouds as the schiltrons freed themselves from the marshy ground and began the ascent up Halidon Hill.

Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.

For the commoner, Bahram wraps fortune / glory " around the house of the worshipper, for wealth in cattle, like the great bird Saena, and as the watery clouds cover the great mountains " ( Yasht 14. 41, cf.

Bruce and Mar's wild charge was met by great clouds of arrows, which fell in rapid succession on the Scottish flanks.

n the seventeenth century, in his great work, Dr. John Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and one of the most eminent Hebrew scholars of his time, declared, as the result of his most profound and exhaustive study of the Scriptures, that " heaven and earth, centre and circumference, were created all together, in the same instant, and clouds full of water ," and that " this work took place and man was created by the Trinity on October 23, 4004 B. C., at nine of the clock in the morning.

They would travel vast distances through the sky, to great feasts, or to battles amongst the clouds.

Although " unrecognized " by the great Allied Powers, King Constantine I resumed his interrupted reign amidst frantic acclamations of the population, a wave of anti-Venizelist reprisals, and dark war clouds in Anatolia where the Turkish Nationalist leader, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, was daily increasing his following.