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'm still at the "Crown," Though I said in my last—wot wos true—I was jest on the mizzle for town.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Der Breitmann poot de triangel oopon his het, and whistled, Den rop de cloak around his form, and down de Corso mizzled.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
The maids in haste Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes And laughing hurry in to keep them dry.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
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 Mark Lemon
I kud smell the thing afore I wur half-way, an’ when I got near it, the birds mizzled.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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
Putting to sea again, with a south-east wind and a mizzling rain, they were soon all wet to the skin.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
Pens don't melt into the air: pens are not in the habit of mizzling away into nothing.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
On my second day at the village it happened to be raining—a warm, mizzling rain without wind—ind the nightingales were as vocal as in fine bright weather.
From Birds in Town and Village by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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