It was a strip of flocculent, sheepy-looking, little cloudlets that suggested curliness and innocence. |
Because the material in a cloud is slowly circulating, the speed differences lead to the cloud breaking into a number of collapsing cloudlets. |
Cirrocumulus has no shading, and because it is so much higher, the cloudlets of cirrocumulus are much smaller than those of altocumulus. |
So, too, the Teutonic Freyja took shape in the sea-born cloudlets of the upper air. |
On busy news days, the entire city is awash in these cloudlets, like 50 million newspapers brought to breathing, blaring life, and then obliterated into a sea of disintegrating light and noise. |
City lights sprawled below, growing brighter and dimmer sporadically as the pod passed through low level cloudlets. |