Sentence:  And now the sky was a bright sea sown with islands; they shrank and crumbled and drifted away, islands no more, but a multitude of plumes and flakes and <WSD>smoky</WSD> wreaths hastily scudding, for the sun had lifted his tranquil eye on the heavens ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Resembling or composed of smoke.