It was a cold raw day, slush and lowering skies.

They rode on at a fast walk under lowering skies just as they had for days past counting, long, dull days that meant nothing more than so many leagues toward their goal.

Lowering skies, black shapes that became giant multi-headed serpents, massing as though to attack.

She had come east from the coast of Oregon, and they shared an inbred familiarity with lowering skies, open waters, and soggy landscapes.

To love anything is to see it at once under lowering skies of danger.

Frail against lowering skies, the boat drew away from the dock.

What with the wind and lowering skies, the lack of adventure was doubly welcome, since adventures in the cold and rain are about twice as likely to make you uncomfortable.

Even gloomy Rambehisht seemed satisfied as the patrol made camp under lowering skies.

In the morning, under lowering skies, they held a farewell ceremony.

They had had plenty of warning, with lowering skies and squalls and rain, and had rushed the galley into a safe harbor to wait out the tempest.