Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks!
On cue, a threatening puff of snow billowed down the mountains.
I couldn't actually see the fires from the air, only the smoke billowing out of mountain caverns, like so many smoldering volcanoes.
From the two strikingly spired Buddhist stupas and billowing prayer flags in the mountains above Ms. Wolfe's home to the vast dry plains of the San Luis Valley below, it's easy to imagine that you are in Tibet.
Curtains billowing, the whole lot.
He's captured stunning sequences that show the glittering Milky Way streaming brilliantly across the sky's alternating canvas, along with other striking footage recorded from this god's-eye-view, like waves of undulating clouds that arch and sway off the side of the mountain like a billowing sea.
One wall, in homage to the Herat school of painting, was taken up with romantic depictions of rural Khorasan province — mountains that looked like billowing hair, dervishes sitting on the grass, deer and wolves, partridges and leopards, and an image of Majnun, Islam's slightly loony Romeo, in pursuit of his Leyla.
The Sichuan basin, surrounded by mountains that trap smoke billowing from its industrial centers, is "notorious" for its dirty air, she says.
Troops armed with M-16 rifles marched through the central business district, as thick black smoke from mountains of burning tyres billowed over skyscrapers.
Last week, an infrared video shot by the environmental nonprofit Earthworks, showing a cloud of gas billowing from the well site in the mountains and settling over the community below, was shown to a meeting of Porter Ranch residents - bringing to mind the iconic webcam of the underwater gushing pipeline during the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
