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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"But why has he mizzled over the wall?"
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
The gentleman that employed me has mizzled, and he promised me fifty pounds.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
The pack was a motley one, a canine kaleidoscope that, as it tumbled in the sunshine, showed all the various hues of ancestry from red Irish terrier to mizzled collie.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
Ezra: Young carroty-pow must have been in a fine fantigue, When she found I’d mizzled.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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
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 thunder was much louder than last night's, and a slight mizzling rain for about an hour fell.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles
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 Frederick Marryat
We then returned to the wood in a mizzling rain and fog, for the weather had changed, and the frost had broken up.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
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