storm-cloud

storm-cloud (plural storm-clouds)

1. Dated form of storm cloud.
   • 1810, Margaret Nicholson, edited by John Fitzvictor [pseudonyms; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Thomas Jefferson Hogg], “Fragment. Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé.”, in Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found amongst the Papers of That Noted Female Who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786, Oxford, Oxfordshire: J[ohn] Munday, →OCLC, page 11:

     ’TIS midnight now—athwart the murky air, / Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam; / From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare, / It shews the bending oak, the roaring stream.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, “The Maid of Isla”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co. […] and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 113–114:

     O Isla’s maid, yon sea-bird mark, / Her white wing gleams through mist and spray, / Against the storm-cloud, lowering dark, / As to the rock she wheels away;— / Where clouds are dark and billows rave, / Why to the shelter should she come / Of cliff exposed to wind and wave?— / O maid of Isla, ’tis her home.

   • 1881 May 31, John Muir, “Siberian Adventures”, in William Frederic Badè, editor, The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition in 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, published 1917, →OCLC, pages 36–37:

     The dreariest towns I ever beheld—the tops of the islands in gloomy storm-clouds; […]