pall-like

The ghostly birds, the pall-like sea, the frothy wind, the eternal soliloquy of the waters, the bloom of dark purple cast, that seems to exhale from the shoreward precipices, in themselves lend to the scene an atmosphere like the twilight of a night vision.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.

Classic Game: Casey At The Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer 2006

He burned the old sheets in the incinerator in the maintenance shed, the damp stink of the cremation hanging pall-like over the grounds for hours.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

He burned the old sheets in the incinerator in the maintenance shed, the damp stink of the cremation hanging pall-like over the grounds for hours.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

He burned the old sheets in the incinerator in the maintenance shed, the damp stink of the cremation hanging pall-like over the grounds for hours.

Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

We had severed all physical connection with Drift Ice Station Zebra, a home of the dead that might continue to circle slowly around the Pole for mindless centuries to come; and with the severance had come an abrupt diminution of the horror and the shock that had hung pall-like over the ship and its crew for the past twenty-four hours.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

Both dashed off at a rapid pace, through a drenching storm, with such a pall-like darkness that they could not see each other.

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

The feathery flakes are falling from the dull-grey, pall-like sky; falling, and falling, and falling; and, slowly they gather and lie.

She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.

Creeping over the surface of the sullen water with ghostly footsteps, the mist soon shrouded the boat in its pall-like folds; impregnating the surrounding atmosphere with moisture and making the boys believe it was raining, though never a drop fell.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

This was encircled by a fair gravel walk, leading to the house, which was entered through a rustic porch, covered with ivy; very old and rampant it was, and its deep heavy foliage, so densely green, had a pall-like look, as it rustled and sighed in the sharp keen air.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various