Great clouds of dust engulfed them and partly hid them from view.
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

The noise of waters and the saw is deafening; then, in a twinkling, it is all still, and you are trotting along between green hedges, and great clouds of dust envelope the barking dogs which follow.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

26 Some used the coon oil straight; others used the oil of birds, geese, chickens or ducks, etc.
— from Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2) by T. J. McConnaughay

The adroit Princess, it is true, had rowed against the current with a steadiness and grace capable of disarming even a well-founded resentment; but the persons who surrounded him looked upon the meeting of them as dangerous for their projects.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Five minutes saw the goodly company of damsels errant and would-be bridegrooms scattered far and near over the smiling meadow.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

They are not generally considered of dignity enough to be fired at from the pulpit; they seem to us too trifling to be remembered in church; they are like the red spiders on plants,—too small for the perception of the naked eye, and only to be known by the shrivelling and dropping of leaf after leaf that ought to be green and flourishing.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But when the gentlemen came on deck early in the morning a considerable change had taken place; the sky was gray and the clouds flying fast overhead.
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Winona, eldest daughter of the great chief, one day entered her birch canoe alone and paddled up the Mississippi, gazing now into the water around her, now into the blue sky above.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

Suddenly he perceived on the horizon, behind Tunis, what looked like slight mists trailing along the ground; then these became a great curtain of dust extending perpendicularly, and, amid the whirlwinds of the thronging mass, dromedaries’ heads, lances and shields appeared.
— from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert