And around this wraith there gathered forces of darkness, Lee thought, as if a strongly penised Satan, black-bodied, black-blooded, black-souled, had disseminated himself into threatening clouds.

In one, for instance, threatening dark clouds almost eclipse the figures of three swimmers on a beach.

Threatening black clouds roiled in the box of sky visible there, and cold wind bled through.

The countdown had been briefly interrupted because of threatening clouds, but it was resumed as they drifted away.

Side by side, they rode directly east toward threatening clouds.

There were threatening nimbus clouds farther south, but the sky was clear and blue above Palm Beach.

The mountains swung a half-circle around a lake black and sullen below threatening clouds.

In contrast, behind me, the northern third of the heavens had been consumed by ravenous masses of threatening clouds.

Notwithstanding Mr. Obuchi's newly strengthened parliamentary position, many political analysts here say there are still threatening clouds on the horizon.

Dust danced in the golden slithers of light that thrust into the gloom, and even from where she was standing she could see the gray of threatening clouds.