Meanings of great billow in English

There was a whispered, sighing noise, and a great billow of dust.

Holcomb chewed his cigar, puffed a great billow of smoke.

They plowed through a great billow of sand at the end of the engine house.

A great billow of grief rose and surged from end to end of the land.

A great billow of blood, like crimson smoke, arose and swirled within the greenish light.

But a great billow broke over the wreck and lifeboatmen, and never was he seen again.

And then suddenly a great billow heaved itself with a thud against the bow and fairly hammered it around.

Quartermaster Moody saw all this, watched the skipper scramble aboard again onto the submerged decks, and then vanish altogether in a great billow.

She looked in time to see the golden dome of The Years slide away sideways and disappear in a great billow of dust.

Great billows kissed the gaping wounds of the vessel-kissesfull of danger.

Over the waters the vapors swept in great billows and columns.

Some change of wind currents swept the smoke toward them in great billows.

Then came the rain, in great billows, as though the ocean itself were upon us.

Drown your flesh with his oil and burn his incense in great billows of smoke.

In this position she rose and fell on the great billows, and shipped very little water.

And in our hearts great billows of emotion