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Dark, heavy, cold grey ; inky, like blots on 

 blotting paper ; sky with, clots of ink ; no sun, 

 ' woolpacks/ ' dark and light cumuli/ ' piling 

 up round the horizon/ ' dense dark drift ' ; 

 ' lurid/ ' threatening/ ' thundery/ ' electric/ 

 ' sultry/ ' hard and cold/ ' compact and 

 uniform black/ ' great black and inky rain- 

 clouds ' ; foggy, misty, frosty, sultry, hard. 



1 Bright/ ' glittery/ ' glancing/ ' glaring/ 

 ' blazing/ ' cloudless blue/ ' blue with 

 cumuli/ 'fitful sun-shafts/ 'sickly gleams/ 

 1 a blazer/ ' slight cloud-motion overhead/ 

 'brilling/ ' as hot as when hens jump up at 

 flies.' 



' Mackerel/ * high drifting cirrus/ 



' Roving/ c warm blue/ ' hard blue/ 

 'balmy/ 'moist/ ' light and blue breaking 

 through/ or ' light cloud and blue between/ 

 ' high film and strata/ ' broken sky/ 



Water 

 (See Table of Scales and Gauge.) 



Flooded, ' yellow flood/ ' clay ' (usually 

 road and surface washings), 'ink/ 'high 



