mizzle

Example Sentences

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After that it mizzles into spectre, and is resolved into its elements, whatever they may be.

From Books and Bookmen by Lang, Andrew

And when it do rain out here, sir, it ain’t one of your British mizzles, but regular cats and dogs.

From Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco by Burton, W.

Do they think Boulanger "mizzles," After all his recent "fizzles"?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various

John and William were hopeful young gentlemen, but they died early—one of a decline brought on by the mizzles, the other lost his life in a fever.

From Chronicles of the Canongate by Scott, Walter, Sir