mizzle
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The murk and mizzle kept the players off for almost three hours, though the break did little to stall England's momentum.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
Yet for the Seahawks the murk and mizzle of this grey Wembley evening felt like a home from home as they pummelled the Oakland Raiders 27-3.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2018
We have many names for rain, from mizzle to drizzle, torrents to downpours.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2017
After a warm, moonlit night the mist and mizzle descended, making it impossible to judge the moment when the sun rose over the Wiltshire plain without an accurate watch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
I tells you candid, I’ll mizzle whenever I gits ashore.
From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
"The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig."
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred
Ezra: Young carroty-pow must have been in a fine fantigue, When she found I’d mizzled.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
During the trial she mizzled, and has not, I believe, been heard of since.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
How monarchs die is easily explained, For thus upon their tombs it might be chiselled; As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled!
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
By the time I left the cathedral it was already dark, mizzling, the kind of rain that looks like mist but drenches you in minutes.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
There is page after page of italic script describing in wonderful language the "mizzling rain", "gleamings" of sunshine and "prismatic solar halos".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012
"The mizzling rain turned to a downpour when I was halfway up the hill, but I will be ready for dinner in twenty minutes."
From The Measure of a Man by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
There is fretfulness, a mizzling, drizzling rain of discomforting remark; there is grumbling, a northeast storm that never clears; there is scolding, the thunderstorm with lightning and hail.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
About twelve o’clock there came on a mizzling heavy rain, which was very favourable for our hero’s operations.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
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