misty
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I get a little misty remembering my own clumsy progress through that flower-filled minefield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
She described the large seascape in its unforgettable blues, the watercolors of trees, the misty quality of the skies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
A striking new pitviper with a vivid grass-green body and amber-like eyes has been discovered in the misty mountains of western Sichuan, China.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
It was a misty start to Kirkwood's final day as her Breakfast presenting colleagues read out messages and shared memories from viewers expressing their appreciation.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
The moment the door closed behind her, the misty rain grew more intense.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
Gray and damp at 10 a.m., it proved grayer, mistier and wetter at 6 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
But this version of “The Visit” has another dimension, too, a mistier one that exalts the notion of deathless love.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
The “twilight” of the exhibition’s title has as much to do with the mistier regions of consciousness as with the borderlands of real-world time and space.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010
And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
From Poems by Edward Thomas
“I think we will leave the lesson here for today,” said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
To Zodiac after a while they came— The twistiest, mistiest town, With odd little collopy, scallopy streets Meandering up and down.
From Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann by Winifred Bromhall
Now, Agatha, confess—isn't my husband the very vaguest, mistiest man you ever knew?
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
That has always a great effect upon the English, whose feudal notions are rather of the mistiest, and principally derived from Waverley.”
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
It was the mistiest spot I ever visited.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
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