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Her own prayers, and those of a steady succession of religious friends, are noted; the melting intonations of her own utterances of anxiety or peace; the parting counsels or warnings addressed to her dependants; the last breathings of affection to those dearest; the occasional aberrations and cloudings of intelligence coming in the progress of her disease, which were assigned to temptations from Satan: all these are given to us.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

The most sympathetic and experienced water-colorist will find himself at fault with those amber-rose, orange-vermilion blushes, and those tender cloudings of yellow and green.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

He sang it in a high quavering voice with curious lapses in the vigour of his singing and cloudings in the fire of his eyes, so that now and then the company would have to jolt him awake to give the air more lustily.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

One is almost ashamed to dispute with such intellectual cloudings.

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

The general tone of this fern is dark green; but there are paler cloudings of yellow and pink, --; due to the varying age of the leaves, which are pressed into a cushion three or four feet high, and almost solid enough to sit upon.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

A deepening or lightening of the same colour in irregular patches, as will occur in clouded yarns, gives interest, whereas if these cloudings were in strongly contrasted colours they would be crude and unrestful.

How to make rugs Candace Wheeler 1875

In some eggs the purple cloudings greatly predominate; in others scarcely a trace of them is observable.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

So the cloudings on a piece of wood, carefully drawn, will be the best introduction to the drawing of the clouds of the sky, or the waves of the sea; and the dead leaf-patterns on a damask drapery, well rendered, will enable you to disentangle masterfully the living leaf-patterns of a thorn thicket, or a violet bank.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

And when he imagined the gradation of the cloudings in feathers to represent successive generation, it never occurred to him to look at the much finer cloudy gradations in the clouds of dawn themselves; and explain the modes of sexual preference and selective development which had brought _them_ to their scarlet glory, before the cock could crow thrice.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

You are just as comfortable yourselves, writing on your old friend of a desk, with the white cloudings in his leather, and using the light of a window which is nothing but a hole in the brick wall.

A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859