Sentences with phrase «clouds of gnats»

There were clouds of gnats, golden in the sunlight, odd piles of shipwrecked branches, and smooth lips of stone with their purls and eddies.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

Other screens capture similarly tranquil moments such as airplanes passing through the night sky, and a cloud of gnats hovering in the dusk sunlight.

Not exact matches

The smell of sin hung foul on them; the mire About their roots was trampled filth of flesh Horrid with rottenness, and splashed with gore Curdling in crimson puddles; where there buzzed And sucked, and settled, creatures of the swamp, Hideous in wing and sting, gnat - clouds and flies, With moths, toads, newts, and snakes red - gulleted; And livid, loathsome worms, writhing in slime Forth from skull - holes and scalps and tumbled bones.57

Shaking them has no apparent effect other than producing a purple - black cloud of smoke, but shaking them repeatedly will produce Gnats, which the player can swat to initiate the Gnat Attack minigame.