| 单词 | mistiness |
| 例句 | But not a flake has fallen from the gray mistiness above. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Bax, well known to New York audiences in chamber music over the past decade, started with a tone of pristine Classicism that swiftly dissolved into washes of dreamier mistiness, without ever losing clarity. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z In her first Instagram self-portrait, from May 12, she appears with shrunken eyes and intensely white teeth, and her skin is softened into artificial mistiness. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Punchy abstract color briefly holds sway in the second gallery, where 10 large, bright “Photoshop Gradient Demonstrations” evoke a kind of lurid cross between Color Field painting mistiness and Op Art harshness. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z My next morning in Maine saw a silvery mistiness when, as Carson wrote, “the softness of sea fog blurs the contours of the rocks.” Footsteps: Rachel Carson’s ‘Rugged Shore’ in Maine 2012-08-22T20:00:28Z Of course this show time-travels with plenty of baggage, which Mr. Wolfe unpacks with pedagogical annotations and sentimental mistiness. Review: ‘Shuffle Along’ Returns to Broadway’s Embrace 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Of Thursday’s June gloom, he said: “Hate it. This kills us. It slows us down a lot on the putting greens. Just the mistiness makes it slow, like a dew on the putting greens.” How are pin placements decided for U.S. Open? It's science beyond putting greens 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The mistiness I experienced at the end of “Funny Girl” was a purely physiological expression of gratitude. Review: I was skeptical of Lea Michele. Then I saw her deliver a tour de force in 'Funny Girl' 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s a bit rainy and chilly, but after months of a sweltering, atypical spring in D.C., the chill and mistiness are a nice change. TRAVEL: Boise, Idaho, a haven of restaurants, art, craft beer and outdoor activity 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z I tucked in rosy pink heather to break up the greens and introduce a certain mistiness. A Romantic Landscape’s Purple Haze—in a Vase 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The relief from the glare was soothing and the gloom was marked by a mistiness that gave him hope. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z It was indeed an awful crisis, rendered more frightful from the mistiness of the night and dimness of the moon. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z No, no; carry clearness, if you like, into your mathematical definitions; but leave us our mistiness when we treat of the mysterious. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z A mistiness came into the Girl's blue eyes and lingered there a moment, then her white teeth closed tightly and the glimmer of outraged emotion passed. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z She was holding her lips rather tightly drawn, as in self-repression, and there was a mistiness about her eyes that hinted at unshed tears. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z It was clear again the following morning, but with a mistiness to the west masking Mount Hood and the Cascades, to which I was now coming very near. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z Meanwhile the mistiness was fast developing into a thick fog, and to linger on the mountain in such was extremely dangerous, owing to the deep bogs in many places, so everyone hastened to depart. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Where they possess all the clearness of a sign-post, our eyes can only study the mistiness of a valley before the rising sun has dispelled the wreathing clouds. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z It moved him beyond anything he had ever known, and blurred the sunshine with a tremulous mistiness. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z The distances lay softened by a mistiness that clung like a haze of dreams. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z From the grey-white mistiness of the sky to the grey-green murkiness of the river there was nothing that contrasted with anything else; every object was blended, dissolved, all but quenched. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z At these words a slight mistiness rose before Martin's eyes. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z From Coleridge also Maurice derived some of the mysticism, if not mistiness, which characterised his thought. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z She turned her eyes away with a betraying mistiness in them. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z "Au revoir!" she repeated, when a mistiness in her eyes suddenly blurred sight of him, and she tightened the reins. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z "Why no, no—certainly not!" gasped Bowles, alarmed by a mistiness in her eyes. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Certainly in some cases mistiness amounting to fog arises from the replacement of cold surface air which has chilled the earth and the objects thereon by a warm current. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z If you understood Greek, and would read me passages, now and then, explaining their meaning, ’twould be, from its mistiness, perhaps, a greater luxury than reading the thing one’s self. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Was it not an act of pure philanthropy to clear some of the sentimental mistiness out of that pretty little head? The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z She looked at me with a sweet mistiness. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The mistiness of the night prevented our discovering the character of your cavalcade, nor could we distinguish the usual crack of wagon-whips.” Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Some mistiness on the moral law yet remains. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z That clear obscure mistiness seems to open to the mind's eye the distant depths of borderland; we almost fancy we can see dim, shadowy figures float past before us. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z As all his thought began to tend toward senile mistiness, his emotions also slowly deteriorated in indifference and drunkenness. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Her eyes had the sweet mistiness I remembered from our last meeting. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z In the cases reported by Sheppard visual symptoms were the initial signs of trouble, double vision, mistiness, and inability to hit the mark in shooting being the first complaint. Food Poisoning The old priest took off his offending spectacles, rubbed them with his handkerchief, and replaced them only to find that the mistiness was in his own wet eyes. The Belovéd Traitor The road seemed no longer dark; it swam before him now in a soft winged mistiness with here and there an occasional cedar thrusting grotesquely above huddled cobble-wall and black-lined rail-fence. The Valiants of Virginia A sudden and unaccountable mistiness blurred his sight. The Tempering For mistiness of eyes, many men, lest their eyes should suffer the disease, look into cold water and then are able to see far.... The Old English Herbals A peculiar mistiness of vision was also complained of. Food Poisoning Condensation in the whole body of the trade is usually in the form of turbidness or mistiness, a bank or incipient stratus, without cirri. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes They were like two beings distilled complete from the mild and fragrant air, the sweet mistiness of the verdant valley, the purpling solemnity of the Juras. The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium And those hills—isn't there a mistiness that softens their lines and gives one a sense of their distance? Ewing\\'s Lady A mistiness began to gather on the platform where the Colonel's sword lay and through it from time to time shot sparks of electricity. The Ordeal of Colonel Johns Some declared they had seen him since, but, as to time a general mistiness prevailed. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Gay-Lussac, and other aeronauts, have seen a thin cloud stratum at the height of 20,000 to 30,000 feet, not visible at the earth, although some degree of mistiness and obscurity were observed. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes There was a vague mistiness about this puma but there was also about it the appearance of solid reality. Sinister Paradise A hush and universal mistiness pervaded the air of the dimly-lighted house; the assembly seemed about to pass out of existence, Niobe-like. An American Girl Abroad The mistiness of the lace curtains falling over it lent just the effect of ‘distance’ that was required to perfect the illusion and to prevent anybody from detecting the paint. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories With a sudden cleavage in the dull mistiness which had possessed his heart for so long, he saw that there was something in life which they had missed. Command Before me lay a situation in which I was to pit my legacy of human development against the brute odds of minds lighted only to the mistiness of dawn. The Portal of Dreams Out of the mistiness of her clouded brain a thought had come with unwonted clearness. Strangers and Wayfarers Their claims were the result of mistake or intellectual mistiness, and not of intentional deception. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 Presently she saw a silver mistiness rising up all about, like clouds, in which the princesses, the pages, Nutcracker, and she herself were floating. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. There was a mistiness in the Colonel's eyes, a queer chokiness in his voice. A Little Dusky Hero Our conceptions of taste, smell, touch, and even of hearing, in the absence of the objects of sense, have a certain dimness, vagueness, mistiness, uncertainty about them. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education And the paths had a touch of autumnal damp, and a certain mistiness, mellow and golden by reason of the sunshine, was rising among the trees. Sir Tom There is no mistiness here, no vagueness, no hesitation, no limitation, but a full, free, open opportunity for all believers to become acquainted with Christ in His Divine fulness. The Prayers of St. Paul The atmosphere was stifling, as if some pastilles had just been burned in it, and a heavy pain in the head flung a mistiness all around. Mabel's Mistake Thought was hard at work with the mistiness of dreaming. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana The most remarkable of these is that in Orion, and if you look very hard at the middle star in the sword-hilt of Orion, you may be able to make out a faint mistiness. The Children's Book of Stars He smiled, but there was a soft mistiness in his eyes. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It was not moonlight; only the light of the stars was abroad, and that still further softened by the haze or a mistiness of the air which made it thicker still. Say and Seal, Volume I I suppose it is the refuge of the mind that deals only with precise and exact terms and rules, to plunge into the opposite extreme,—into blue mistiness for instance. Too Old for Dolls A Novel In early days it had made a glorious stage for “desert islanders,” with the isle-studded lake to bound it, whose further shore for the nonce melted into vague mistiness. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker As they left the paved city for the old inn which modern travel and enterprise had left on the outskirts, the sky showed lavender through a mistiness that was hardly palpable enough for haze. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories And out of that mistiness a face was etched, a face that had no single line of humor in it, a bleak face with the fire of anger in the eyes. Empire Even as they watched the mistiness increased and then suddenly seemed to dissolve, leaving the desert stretched out before them, hard, sullen and cruel. The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure The word "bridegroom" means "spiritual understanding"; "death" means "an illusion"; "evening" means "mistiness of mortal thought"; "mother" means God, etc., etc. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 We had noticed on several occasions a mistiness on some parts of the planet, which I attributed to the vapours raised from the canals by the heated atmosphere. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story There was a mistiness in the eyes of the women that none of the changes they had marked had brought there. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories The back of his knees collided with a chair and he folded up, sat down heavily, still staring at the gray mistiness that was a man. Empire The mistiness of vision troubled her anew as she held out her black-gloved hand. The Orchard of Tears As he did so, a mistiness came over his bright, wild eyes, which, when he had turned again to go, must—if ever Indian warrior weeps—have gathered into a tear. Burl This was a Newport afternoon, not cloudy, but touched by a certain marine mistiness which took the edge off the hard outlines of things and put the world into tone with sweet do-nothingness. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Spread before him, and stretching away into the distance until lost in a soft blue mistiness, lay Cairo, its forest of minarets, its domes and its square-topped houses. The Tale of a Trooper The old man put one hand on her hair, and with the other brought forth his handkerchief, being bothered by the sudden mistiness of his spectacles. No Clue A Mystery Story Somewhere amongst them was the hand of Don, but because of that uncomfortable mistiness which troubled her sight at times, Flamby was quite unable to distinguish anything clearly. The Orchard of Tears The girls could not imagine why Miss Tredgold’s eyes grew full of a certain mistiness and her cheeks were very pink with color. Girls of the Forest As the darkness closed in there were but few stars to be seen, and they quickly vanished in the mistiness that gradually obscured the heavens. With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Then there came a mistiness in the air, making the noonday sun red and unradiant And the woodsman knew that there were forest fires somewhere up the wind. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Heaven preserve him from all darker colors; from the doubts, the glooms, the moral mistiness of your city atmosphere! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 There was blended in it the soft mistiness of the night, something of regret, something of purple shadows, something of stirring memories. Stubble One of the two starboard propellers, seen through the other, abruptly took on a look which was not that of mistiness at all, but of writhing, gyrating solidity. Space Platform They were real, fresh, substantial—such as youth remembers vividly when death and suffering have shaken the foundations of the world, and covered the past with mistiness and cloud. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 The mistiness increased to such a degree that shortly after five o'clock Beatty lost sight of the enemy's battle cruisers and ceased fire for half an hour. A History of Sea Power This is an art term which is frequently used, and denotes a sort of mistiness which has some light in it, and is gradually shaded off, either into a full light or a deep shadow. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture And the greensward, and the shadows, and the sunlight, and the atmosphere, and the mistiness—isn't it like pearl-dust and gold-dust floating in the air? The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) A strange little face with a tinge of redness in it, a round broad forehead with a mistiness of golden fuzz, a pretty dimpled chin and a mouth almost as round as a cherry. A Little Girl in Old New York As if coming out of a reverie Mrs. King started, the mistiness that had softened her eyes vanishing. Walter and the Wireless A peculiar mistiness had come over his senses. Sally of Missouri He moved to tear the device from his head, but emerging forms in the mistiness caught his interest. Pygmalion's Spectacles She became aware with some annoyance at herself that a faintness was stealing over her brain and a mistiness over her eyes. The Highgrader Now the garden lay deserted, desolate in the mistiness of the moonlight. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Gradually the mistiness began to assume a nebulous uncertain outline and separated itself into four distinct patches. Giants on the Earth She walked out into her favourite meadow—now lying in the silent, frost-bound mistiness of a January day. Olive A Novel It was, indeed, an awful crisis, rendered more frightful from the mistiness of the night and dimness of the moon. The Ocean and its Wonders The actual was dropping away into an impalpable mistiness as the earth drops from under a rising aëroplane. The Tyranny of Weakness I cannot even shelter myself under the mistiness of the peremptory we. Rattlin the Reefer There was a curious mistiness before my eyes which blotted out the rajah and his men, and two companies of troops which I saw off to my left. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East I think we did notice, but as we were expecting rain, a little mistiness was natural. Big Game A Story for Girls There was, however, a faint, scarcely perceptible mistiness in the atmosphere that led me to hope we might get a small breeze from somewhere—I little cared where—before the day grew many hours older. A Pirate of the Caribbees The peculiarity of Turgéneff's style consists in the remarkable softness and tenderness of its tones, combined with a certain mistiness of coloring, which recalls the air and sky of central Russia. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Even the fresh wind, blowing in from the outer sea, had already lost some of the bite they had felt two days before when its salt-laden mistiness had first struck them. Storm Over Warlock And yet apart from that, there is without doubt much mistiness, and uncertainty, in some minds, because of the difficulty of thinking of a person without a form. Quiet Talks on Power Quickly the hills grew, the blue mistiness disappearing, and the jagged mounds revealing themselves as bleak harsh rock. The Black Star Passes Then he saw, out in the gloom and mistiness, the white gleaming of a wave-crest, rising and sinking, but sweeping steadily toward him, and knew that it would dash upon his narrow foothold. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught She showed me his letters, which were written with extraordinary beauty and power, though the sentiments were somewhat obscured by a transcendental mistiness belonging to the atmosphere he breathed. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The slight chill of early autumn was in the air, here and there the leaves were turning gold and red, and a faint mistiness hung over the landscape. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls In the light of the ship's windows, they could see the faint mistiness of the inconceivably hard, artificial matter, and beyond the slick, polished surface of the rock it was pushing aside. Invaders from the Infinite Yet there is no uncertainty, no mistiness in his form, as there is in that of some of the other impressionists. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Badger's head seemed to split open under that blow, and a blur of blood and mistiness followed. Frank Merriwell's Reward Under his touch it bowed with quick reverence but not before she had seen a mistiness in the kindly eyes. Red-Robin In this then must lie the essence of the literary gift—in the power of a writer to express himself, to communicate vividly, without mistiness of contents or outline, his own spirit and vision. Platform Monologues As it approached, a mistiness that formed became a crucible. Invaders from the Infinite But something of the dark mistiness was beginning to lift slowly and reveal to her vague shadows and shapes, as it were. Robin It curved away and away to mistiness at its horizons, and it moved visibly as the spaceship floated on. Space Tug And in his mood for field and sky was the old, dreamy mistiness of pure delight—spiritual—that he had not known for many years. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War He never admitted a mistiness to the extent of wiping them. The Shield of Silence The mistiness again appeared in the air, and became a globe, a globe of brown. Invaders from the Infinite When she faced about again there was a mistiness in her eyes, a curious, pathetic expression of pity on her face. The Hidden Places I felt myself going off, you know, just as usual—the mistiness, the reposefulness, the last moment when one would rebel if one could—but one can't; that was all ordinary. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Overhead there was a luminous mistiness because of the street light, but here were abysmal darknesses between vague areas on which the starlight fell. Operation Terror In her eyes was the mistiness of exhaustion, and as a chill wind swept about them she leaned against David, and he could feel that her endurance was nearly gone. The Courage of Marge O'Doone From the wall, coming through it, came a mistiness that solidified as it flowed across. Invaders from the Infinite But it was useless; we stopped, and the moon, from within the mistiness of an immense halo, looked dreamily upon our heads. Romance "Ye're right there, lad," and a mistiness came into the captain's eyes. Rod of the Lone Patrol For a moment she seemed unconscious of his presence, then she turned and her eyes looked steadfastly into his, and as they looked they smiled through their mistiness. Destiny Even in the conduct of their intrigues we are lost in a murky mistiness. Inquiries and Opinions It is a mistiness that comes into existence like a cloud, and what it touches is crushed, what it rams is shattered. Invaders from the Infinite He glanced above his desk, and a mistiness came into his eyes. Glen of the High North "She's the finest girl that ever drew breath," and the captain turned away his face so as not to show the mistiness which had suddenly dimmed his eyes. Rod of the Lone Patrol For a moment she seemed unconscious of his presence, then she turned and her eyes looked steadfastly into his, and, as they looked, they smiled through their mistiness. Destiny A mistiness came into the girl's eyes as she stood there. The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists Directly in the orbit of the planet, a faint mistiness appeared, and rapidly solidified to a titanic cup, directly in the path of the planet. Invaders from the Infinite Mr. Wilfer's part of the undertaking was "toning"; that is, bringing to the imitations the necessary mistiness and discoloration supposed to be produced by age. Adrien Leroy To her amazement, she detected a mistiness in his eyes, and her generous heart warmed to him. The Pride of Palomar Adam's mistiness and Satan's reasoning, ever since the flood,—when specimens of every kind emerged from the ark,—have run through the veins of all human philosophy. No and Yes When Jean had ended singing this verse there was a mistiness in her eyes. The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists I took a set of angles from this point but the mistiness of the day rendered it very unfit for my purpose. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 Each man's eyes were bright, through a manner of mistiness, and there was a sudden silence which was perhaps what had recalled me. Joy in the Morning Jimmie closed his eyes but not quick enough to hide the mistiness which had rushed into them. Six Feet Four He had gone in another moment, but the girl, comprehending dimly what he had done, stood still, staring at the paper with a warmth in her cheeks and a mistiness in her eyes. Winston of the Prairie Modern wits sneer at the scholastic drivelling or the cloudy mistiness of the writers of the middle ages. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 The mistiness of the geography was hidden by the vigour of the theology, and all the sceptics of Nubia hastened to accept the new prophet. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Dipping slightly downward again, the trail lay on the rim of a deep declivity, a sunless gulf in which the tree-tops fell away in rank below rank into dim depths of mistiness. White Shadows in the South Seas He tried to picture his father weeping near the incinerator, and failed, partly owing to the mistiness surrounding that gentleman's bodily appearance. Queed His hair was dark, and his eyes, deep-set and luminous as a child's, looked straight at the world through lashes so long they made a mistiness of shadow. Katrine Alice Deringham returned the pressure of the clinging fingers, and as she saw a curious unreasoning confidence creep into the haggard face her eyes once more shone through a gathering mistiness. Alton of Somasco "You were in there, that room, when--" "Yes," she said, and threw back her head, as if to contradict a sudden mistiness that seemed stupidly sweeping over her gaze. Half A Chance A slight mistiness which Donald, with swelling heart, had noted in his father's eyes a few moments before was now gone. Kindred of the Dust The mistiness and inexplicability of his productions is part of such a process, as well as of invincible temperament. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 But nothing mattered to Olga Mihalovna now, there was a mistiness in her brain from the chloroform, an emptiness in her soul. The Party Oh, such feeble rhymes, and turns of thought—such a dingy mistiness! The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) The phenomena, it seems, are usually preceded by a mistiness, or milkiness, of the glass: this clears off, and pictures appear. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Swooning, or slight mental mistiness, is not very unusual in ghost seers. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Frank thought there was a mistiness which hinted recent tears. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts And the hills were like giants sleeping, and the long outlines were prolonged far away into the depths and mistiness of space. A Mere Accident In his turn the vigorous sailor trembled like a woman, and his eyes filmed with mistiness. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel All together, near to me as she actually was, there was a kind of mistiness in the figure which made it appear somewhat vague and distant, and a greenish grey seemed the prevailing colour. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest I shall judge without mistiness or passion, and habit will come in aid of an enlightened and deliberate choice. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist There were perhaps a score of these, but in the mistiness I could not make out their outlines. The Moon Pool They sweep two by two, out of a cool mistiness, round the ceiling past the suggestion of a pale moon, into the full radiance of the golden orb of the sun. Stories from Everybody's Magazine There was no soft blending, or kind obscurity, or elusive mistiness in that searching glitter. Anne's House of Dreams The cloudy white blossoms of the plum trees filled the grove with a springtime mistiness which gave an illusion of distance. Main Street It was a cool, restful darkness that was not black or forbidding, but somehow open and free; the night of high plains where there is no moistness or mistiness in the atmosphere. The Song of the Lark On and on it swept toward us—an opalescent mistiness that sped with the suggestion of some winged creature in arrowed flight. The Moon Pool But her eyes had a softness—invariably a softness—which, had they not been dark, would have seemed mistiness; as they were, it lowered an expression that might have been piercing to simple clearness. Far from the Madding Crowd There was no yearning, no vague merging off into mistiness…. Twilight in Italy There was only a sort of mistiness over their minds like the smoky air of an early autumn night. An Old Woman's Tale (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") At first a mistiness, like what there is in nature over a city before the sun breaks out; then the sun shining on the buildings, trees, and mountains. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Within the mistiness was a core, a nucleus of intenser light—veined, opaline, effulgent, intensely alive. The Moon Pool There was an indescribable mistiness in the air, or a premature twilight, in which all the figures looked ghostly and unreal. Prue and I I can remember one particular afternoon when there was a curious mistiness through which the western sunlight passed, turning everything into a strange, dull gold. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 For a moment a mistiness involved every object, and I was able to distinguish nothing. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker "Tut, tut, man," and the doctor turned away to hide a mistiness in his eyes. The Fourth Watch The warmth of these days has a mistiness, and in many respects resembles the Indian summer, and is not at all provocative of physical exertion. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. "Yes—I think I felt that"; and glancing up she met the other's eyes full on her own, so dark and full of affection, and with a mistiness rising in their clear depths. Fan : the story of a young girl's life A mistiness quenched the sternness of his gray eyes. The Call of the Cumberlands To my surprise I discovered that my mind was freed from all mistiness. The Home and the World A mistiness rose before his eyes, and several tears stole down his furrowed cheeks. The Fourth Watch There being a mistiness in the air, we could see the gleam of the lighthouse itself by the highest point of this island, or by our being in a valley. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. "Yes," said Sheila, in her voice that in some mysterious way was another expression of the clear mistiness of her eyes and the suppleness of her body. Hidden Creek Then, as I watched, the weird mistiness collected and shaped and rose into three towers. The Ghost Pirates As will be seen from the illustrations, which are remarkably good ones, there is a dim mistiness about the mountain. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young To the southward a cold mistiness veiled the view, and every mile the schooner advanced appeared like penetrating deeper and deeper into regions that nature had hitherto withheld from the investigation of the mariner. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers The mistiness is much aided by the glimmering expression of his half-finished features. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 Gradually, the mistiness increased; growing, as it were, out of nothing. The House on the Borderland A faint mistiness hangs above the beach at some distance, formed of the salt particles dashed into the air and suspended. The Open Air During this reminiscence, the man on the ground had contrived to clear his mind of the mistiness induced by the Kid's upper cut. The Prince and Betty It's time for her to drop her mistiness, to get out of the society of all these artists, scholars, and Montenegrins, and do like everybody else.' On the Eve He drew both from his pocket and showed them to Pelliter, and at the tremble in his voice there came a mistiness in his comrade’s eyes. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail At times, I seemed to distinguish faces, amid the cloudiness; but strangely indistinct, as though partly real, and partly formed of the mistiness through which they showed. The House on the Borderland One cannot, even now, read without a genuine heart-thrill, and a mistiness about the eyes, the simple touching story of that royal romance of royal old Windsor. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood People chattered all about him on the wide, crowded balcony, but he was only conscious of the blue-grey mistiness of the night where the lights made patterns in green-gold and red-gold. Three Soldiers In the summer a hot but gracious mistiness softened the green of the valleys, the varying colours of the hills, the blue of the river, the sharp outlines of the cliffs. Parables of a Province From about the woods an impalpable bluish mistiness that was there just now has been blown away. The Life of the Fields In the dimming light, her face showed, shadowy—blending into the dusky mistiness that encircled us. The House on the Borderland Her eyes were bright, and as she lifted them towards him a golden softness and mistiness came into the centre of each of them, as though he might look down through them into her soul. The Great Stone of Sardis The Goodwood Plunger knit his eyebrows and closed the lids once or twice, and forced the mistiness and pain out of his eyes. Gallegher and Other Stories This condition renders it nearly as difficult for us to understand the vagueness and mistiness of savage and unwritten creeds, as to penetrate into the modus agendi of animal instinct. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Meanwhile separation and silence had clothed him in my mind with something of the mistiness of a half-remembered dream. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Away to the North, I could discern a nebulous sort of mistiness; not unlike, in appearance, a small portion of the Milky Way. The House on the Borderland It is darker than the rest, but it seems to be all covered up with mistiness. The Great Stone of Sardis When Kerry left Bond Street the mistiness of the night was developing into definite fog. Tales of Chinatown Miss Burton was smiling as she finished, but there was a soft mistiness in her brown eyes which touched the hearts of her adoring audience. Glenloch Girls WE are in the flat country, a vast mistiness, but above it is dark blue. Under Fire: the story of a squad Presently, in a half-conscious manner, I noticed that there was a faint mistiness, ruddy in hue, lying over its surface. The House on the Borderland But not before he had seen a mistiness which looked remarkably like—Good heavens, he might have known that she would be tired and upset! The Window-Gazer I passed a hand over my brow, for whenever this subject is alluded to between us, I invariably feel that there is a species of mistiness, in and about the region of thought. The Monikins His last recollection of her eyes was of a soft mistiness not far from tears. Huntingtower Down the blue mistiness of the valleys we beheld a far-flashing stream, whose silver course grew fainter and at last disappeared around the purple headlands. See America First Here, as then, a mistiness checked the gaze. The Metal Monster All the mistiness and speculation in his mind was gone now. The Patrician During this reminiscence, the man on the ground had contrived to clear his mind of the mistiness induced by the Kid's upper-cut. Psmith, Journalist There is a mistiness and a chord vibrating in the mist. Crime and Punishment When this has continued about a week, a light mistiness begins to gather about the horizon; clouds are formed; grumbling thunder is heard; and then, generally in the night- time, down falls the refreshing rain. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Twenty minutes—subconsciously I had gone on counting—twenty minutes— About the cratered girdle of the upthrust shields a glimmering mistiness was gathering; a translucent mist, beryl pale and beryl clear. The Metal Monster Laverick was suddenly conscious of an absurd mistiness before his eyes. Havoc The journey to Limehouse was performed without discovery—aided, no doubt, by the mistiness of the night; and Mareno, returning to the West End, ingeniously inquired for Sir Lucien at his club. Dope |
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