1.   By evening a huge cloud of smoke began to rise from the scene, but it came from a barbecue pit.

2.   First, dark clouds begin to boil in the sky, and lightning starts to crackle and fizz.

3.   The clouds had begun to thin.

4.   The dust cloud begins to smear out along the orbit of the comet.

5.   The clouds were beginning to break, revealing a storm of stars across the heavens.

6.   And as the few stray clouds began to soften into a delicate pink, all of us agreed that the rest of the world seemed an infinity away.

7.   As Clinton left the Capitol on that cold inaugural day, however, dark clouds began to hover over him.

8.   As dusk fades to darkness, the steam cloud begins to glow and people search for a ribbon of lava on a distant hillside.

9.   As the sun climbed, the clouds began to disappear.