For example, "Dying Buffalo in a Snowdrift" (1839) has appropriately leaden clouds in the sky.
He fell back into the field, and the leaden clouds, which had hovered ominously for 100 laps, finally let loose.
About a half-hour before the game, the leaden clouds had disappeared and playing left field became an adventure for Matsui.
Sometime in August the leaden clouds over the lineup parted, and we found ourselves with a sun-splashed contingent of conspicuously athletic young players — shortstop Xander Bogaerts, catcher Blake Swihart, outfielders Jackie Bradley, Jr., Rusney Castillo, and Mookie Betts.
But inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, where leaden clouds and haunting winds gathered yesterday afternoon at the United States Open, Massu, an ominous Chilean in black, was swiping forehands that traveled the path of a boomerang, bowing out before curving into the corners of the court.
On Monday, against the steep wall of the northern Rocky Mountains, their tops obscured by the leaden clouds that clung low to the valley throughout the day, relatives of the victims visited the crash site, which was in a cluster of blue spruce trees.
We head off, after a full British breakfast in the pub, under wide leaden clouds, winding back up the formidable face of green hillside, and make our first stop of the day at Fyfield Down, a vale studded with gorse, with ancient "strip lynchet" field terraces marking the land in italic lines.
The leaden clouds, bracing breeze and brief snow flurry that seemed unfitting for a mid-April day only heightened the Cold War chill.
To someone like me, who has growing up cursing the leaden clouds of northern Europe, and with skin a shade of blue for the want of sun, this seems a criminal waste.
Ten minutes more of vigorous rowing, and I noticed leaden clouds gathering.
