Sentence examples for cloud of midges from inspiring English sources

Trailing a cloud of midges, they'd hump their bikes off the road, through some muddy gateway and, behind the hedge, hug and knead each other among the mallows and Queen Anne's lace and nettles dusty with pollen.

Even the hapless Sergeant Bunting can't resist a skinny-dip in a mysterious forest pond: "He passed through a cloud of midges, he smelt the rare leafy tang of the woodland water.

Cook was on 70 at the time and looking if not exactly in prime form – he had spent large parts of his innings twitching and thrashing like a man repeatedly bothered by an ankle-height cloud of midges – then at least reassuringly focused.

Here and there, little clouds of midges float lazily.

The setting is both very beautiful and deeply forbidding – thick woodland, soaring sand dunes, clouds of midges.

There are clouds of midges and gaggles of children and we end up circling a small patch of scrubby ground with overflowing litter bins.

The smiles were knocked off our faces next day when we stopped in Torridon, outside the shop, and within seconds clouds of midges were banging on the doors.

We carried enormous packs; we camped by the streams; we touched 23 mountaintops; we saw hundreds of deer, birds of prey, tiny flowers, clouds of midges, and barely another person.

Her stories are a litany of horrors: the filthy clothes, the clouds of midges, the permanent chill in the barracks, eating grass to stave off hunger, and the perverted guards who would line the women up naked in the washroom and inspect them.

Small black clouds of midge flies collected in sunny pockets above the wildflowers.

Above them a dozen police and television helicopters hovered and circled, marking the motorcade's progress like a cloud of midsummer midges.