See Also: CLOUD MOVEMENTS, SKY

1. A cloud like a torn shirt —Katherine Mansfield
2. Clouds are like Holy Writ, in which theologians cause the faithful or the crazy to see anything they please —Voltaire
3. Clouds … as white as leghorn feathers —Saul Bellow
4. The cloud showed motion within, like an old transport truck piled high with crate on crate of sleepy white chickens —Eudora Welty
5. The clouds hung above the mountains like puffs of white smoke left in the wake of a giant old-fashioned choochoo train —Sue Grafton
6. The clouds lie over the chiming sky … like the dustsheets over a piano —Dylan Thomas
7. Clouds like a marble frieze across the sky —Helen Hudson
8. Clouds like cruisers in the heaven —Edna O’Brien
9. Clouds like dark bruises were massing and swelling [on the horizon] —George Garrett
10. Clouds … like drowsy lambs around a tree —Romain Gary
11. (The sky turned sooty with) clouds like enormous thumbprints —Helen Hudson
12. Clouds like lights among great tombs —Wallace Stevens
13. Clouds like tattered fur —Jean Thompson
14. Clouds piling up like a bubble bath —Sue Grafton
15. Clouds, plump and heavy as dumplings —Anthony E. Stockanes
16. The clouds were asses’ ears —Dylan Thomas
17. The clouds were huddled on the horizon like dirty sheep from the steppes —Joyce Renwick
18. The clouds were like an alabaster palace —Johnny Mercer, from his 1954 lyrics for Midnight Sun
19. The clouds were like old fiddles —Joyce Cary
20. A few clouds were drawn against the light like streaks of lead pencils —John Cheever
21. Fluffy white clouds, like flecks of lather, were floating across the sky —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
22. Clouds … wild and black and rolling like locomotives —W. P. Kinsella
23. Frail clouds like milkweed floss —John Dos Passos
24. Gleaming, white fluffy clouds peeped over the hills … like kittens —Stella Benson
25. High fat clouds like globs of whipped cream —William Faulkner
26. Like a grave face, lit by some last, sad thought, a cloud, tinged by the fading glow of sunset —John Hall Wheelock
27. Like blurred lenses, winter clouds cast a shade over the sun —Truman Capote
28. (Above the falling sun,) like visible winds the clouds are streaked and spun —Roy Fuller
29. Little white clouds … like a row of ballet-girls, dressed in white, waiting at the back of the stage, alert and merry, for the curtain to go up —W. Somerset Maugham
30. Little white clouds like flags were whipped out in the scented wind —Paul Horgan
31. Little white puffs of cloud … like a cat steeped in milk —W. P. Kinsella
32. A long thin cloud crossed it [the moon] slowly, drawing itself out like a name being called —Eudora Welty
33. Low clouds, drooping at the edges like felt, sailed over the woods —Boris Pasternak
34. Low on the horizon hung a fugitive wisp of cloud, spiraled and upthrust like a genie emerging from a bottle —Robert Traver
35. A massive cloud like dirty cotton —William Faulkner
36. One cloud intruded [into the blue of the sky] puffy, precise, as if piped from a pastry bag —Margaret Sutherland
37. Parcels of clouds lying against the mountainside like ghosts of dead mackerel —Paul Theroux
38. A single puff of cloud so still, it seems as if it had been painted there —Delmore Schwartz
39. Small thin clouds like puffs of frosty breath —Joyce Cary
40. Some small clouds, like rosy petals, seemed to his eyes to be dancing, gently and carefully, against the blue —Hugh Walpole
41. They [the clouds] peel the morning like a fruit —Lawrence Durrell
42. When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth’s refreshed by frequent showers —English weather rhyme
43. White and fluffy clouds … one looked like a fish and one looked like a movie star, all curvy, and another looked like Santa Claus gone wrong —Lee Smith