Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor. - Thomas Hardy

there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would had disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there

Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.

She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill in speech, and her father had none.