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In some, the nebulous matter of which they are composed can be seen like masses of tufted flocculi, sometimes piled up, and at other times promiscuously scattered, resembling in appearance the foam on the crested billows of a surging ocean rendered suddenly motionless, or cirro-cumuli floating in

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

Uniform dense cirro-stratus, (S. fresh); noon showers all round;

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

It was a dull afternoon, a low foggy stratus was driving rapidly across the sky at a low level, and through the general misty gloom of a northern winter day we could just make out some striated stripes of strato-cirrus -- low cirro-stratus -- between the openings in the lower cloud layer.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

The cirro-cumulus and the hazes become luminous when they are traversed by sufficiently energetic discharges of electricity, and when the light of day is no longer present to overcome their more feeble light.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

All these were, so to speak, the mere outlying flakes, the feathery curls, of the balmy cirro-cumulus, whose huge bulk arose out of the bowels of the ship itself.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Cirrus and cirro-stratus -- the very clouds we want most to observe -- are always thin and indefined as regards their form and contrast against the rest of the sky, so that this defect of the method is the more unfortunate.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

The sky was hazy with cirro-stratus and a fine halo "ringed" the sun.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

That afternoon we noticed very fine iridescent colouring in cirro-cumulus clouds as they crossed the sun.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

The sky was covered with rapidly scudding, cirro-cumulus clouds which, by midday, quite obscured the sun, making surrounding objects and even the snow at our feet indistinguishable.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920