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Meanings of leaden sky in English

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Usage of leaden sky in English
1
The tall naked treetops stood gaunt and wraithlike against a leaden sky.
Further Adventures of Lad
2
Fifth Avenue pushed gayly and busily by her under the leaden sky.
The Heart of Rachael
3
The squalid roofs of north-east London dripped miserably under a leaden sky.
Our Friend the Charlatan
4
The grey leaden sky blends into the grey of the airport runway.
BBC
5
The leaden sky was moving, plates of clouds colliding and ripping apart.
Swan Song
6
Beyond the moat, the boggy ploughed fields stretch to the leaden sky.
I capture the castle
7
Feeling faint, Nish sat near the edge, scowling at the leaden sky.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
8
Proclaim it so, and what a light breaks through our leaden sky!
Starr King in California
9
The trunk has divided, and the two crowns showed against the leaden sky.
The Lake
10
The opening of the trap-door framed a piece of leaden sky.
Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories
11
The rain was pouring perpendicularly from a leaden sky and drenching the decks.
The Blue Pavilions
12
Under the leaden sky the works looked more dismal than ever.
Adventures in Many Lands
13
It was like a rapid, blinding flash of lightning in a leaden sky.
Theresa Raquin
14
The darkness of the night slowly lifted, revealing only a gray, leaden sky.
The Stolen Singer
15
As light as it would ever be beneath this leaden sky.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
16
The leaden sky, charged with he knew not what, almost drove him mad.
The Children's Pilgrimage
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Leaden sky through the time
Leaden sky across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common