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dark cloud

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dark cloud [′därk ′klau̇d]
(astronomy)
A relatively dense, cool cloud of interstellar gas, chiefly molecular, whose dust particles obscure the light of stars behind it.


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My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
"And what's the best of all," he said, "you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone.
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
 
 
 
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