The old gentleman before the blaze began to outrival the kettle in steaming; from his coat-tails a thin veil of mist ascended, his face beaming through the vapor with benign felicity.
An occasional gust of wind, which mysteriously penetrated the mist without sweeping it aside, rattled the windows and waved wildly in mid-air a venturesome rose which had clambered to the second story of the old inn.
Before the mist totally eclipsed his sight he determined to make one more supreme effort, and again sprang forward, but was driven back with ease.
When would that mist become dark, and the golden day fuse into inky night?
An unhealthy mist hung over the earth, like a miasma, and the officer shivered as he walked in that depressing and noxious atmosphere.
The steam from his horses mingled with the mistand he was soon swallowed up, although the cheerful snap of his whip could yet be heard.
A mist had settled down upon the old inn; lost to view was the landscape with its varied foliage.
He vainly endeavored to penetrate themist falling before his eyes and to overcome the dizziness that made his foeman seem like a figure in a dream.
The sunlight penetrating a rift in themist settled upon him as he moved feebly and uncertainly through the doorway and seated himself upon a stool.
Through this pastoral scene, the broad river winds with noble sweep, until, both above and below, it loses itself in the purple mist of the distant hills.
Through the morning, the mist had been thickening.
Notation by Ann Seton] A mist came into my eyes as I listened, and yet I thanked him.
The best time to see them is some clear night about Christmas, when there is no moon, and the Pleiades are nearly overhead, above the mist and smoke of the horizon, and there are no electric lights near by.
It seems but as yesterday, now that the dark mist has been removed from my memory.
The Danish brig had vanished into themist of the northern seas.
The road climbed to a bare moor, where lagoons had formed in the ruts, and the mist showed on each side only a yard or two of soaking heather.
With the lull, mist and a thin drizzle had cloaked the world again.
The mist was furling on the hills like sails, the rain had ceased, and out at sea the eye covered a mile or two of wild water.
Dickson departed, and in the loft washed his face, and smoked a pipe on the edge of the bed, watching the mist eddying up the village street.
The dense mist moves across the country in big banks, between which are patches of comparatively decent atmosphere.
The morning opens with a fine drizzle or extra-heavy mist that is penetrating and miserable, soaking freely into one's clothes, and threatening every minute to change into a regular rain.
For a long time there was silence, and the great heat caused a mist to swim before her eyes, and an overpowering drowsiness--Oh, heaven!
Yet when he turned to the others again there grew a quick mist in his eyes.
The next morning there was a mist in the air, which might become fog.
For the Soul grew unhappy with the weight of a matter withheld from the clear light of the Word, and a mist rose between it and the face of Christ.
We've groped home as best we could, for the rain and mist put out the lights, and as to the lamps, the glass is so thick with damp you can scarce see a spark in them.
And soon the mist of passion clearing from his keen wits, he sought swiftly for a means to fasten the quarrel upon Sir Terence in Sir Terence's own coin of galling mockery.
At daybreak the birds were singing, fresh and full-throated as in May; then the sun burned through the mist and the chorus ceased.
There was a mist over Charles' eyes and a lump in Charles' throat as he shook his uncle's hand.
I hear above the chirping of the crickets, the faint harmonies of Archangelo Corelli and the fugues of Domenico Scarlatti, whose name is so vivid, but whose musick like the morning is a mist of gold.
There were two shots, the scud of frightened rabbits to their burrows, a reeling figure, a cloud across the sun, a mist over life, and she was kneeling in the dewy grass beside Amor.
Henry heard the words through a mist of confused feelings.
You shut your eyes with that thunder in your ears and that gusty mist on your face, and you see it very plainly--more plainly than ever so many arc lights could make you see it--the ultimate meaning of things.
A gray mist rolled with the wind, and dull clouds scudded over.
The mist driven by the moaning wind became a melancholy drizzle.
Out of the mist there loomed up alongside of the boys' boat another motor craft.
But even the stars were blotted out by the curtain of mist and Sam's hopes were blighted.
Just then, through the mist of the storm there shone a great light, full on the Dartaway.
It was nearly dusk, with the dying light of sunset hidden by the mist and clouds.
Faint, trembling in every limb, I fell into a chair, and through a mist saw him kneel and blow upon the coals of the expiring fire, upon which he dropped a lightwood knot.
If any little mist happen to rise," says Willmott, "the sunbeam of hope catches and glorifies it.
The mountains sweep like mist away; The great sea shakes like flakes of fire; The rush of things I cannot see Is mounting upward higher and higher!
As disappears the moon, when wind Heaps miles of mist her visage o'er, So vanisheth his face behind The cloud of his white pinafore.
Between them, vanish, mist of sin and death, And let the life of life within me flow!
Again my eyes I raise To thee, dark rock; and through the mist and haze My strength returns when I behold thy prop Gleam stern and steady through the wavering wrack.
Next morning Drake was in the Channel, near the Eddystone, with fifty-four sail, when he sighted a dim blur to windward through the thickening mist and drizzling rain.
The morning mist condensing on the innumerable smooth leaves ran off and was caught in suitable conduits.
Gradually, a pinkmist formed in the air about the Witch, and in this mist the vision began to appear.
In spite of my haste I had not gone half a mile when an edge of fog whisked and circled round me, and in a moment I could see nothing but a grey shroud of mist and a few yards of steep, slippery grass.
One evening, on the high ground near the Avonbeg, I met a young tramp just as an extraordinary sunset had begun to fade, and a low white mist was rising from the bogs.
The rushes were shining in the moonlight, and one flake of mist was lying on the river.
Up to then the potatoes were clean and good; but that morning a mist rose up out of the sea, and you could hear a voice talking near a mile off across the stillness of the earth.
And through the mist which seemed to have gathered before his wild eyes, he suddenly saw an open doorway, the doorway of a coach-house in the rear of a kind of chalet, sequestered among trees.
Globeless gas burners flared freely, heating a dense mist compounded of tobacco smoke and human breath.
Wherefore being encompassed with darkness, and having such a mist before our eyes, we have looked up, and through his will have laid aside the cloud wherewith we were surrounded.
They stood side by side, looking out across the woods, where, behind a curtain of mist and rain, the single turret of the Château de Nesville was hidden.
And now the troops around them were firing as they advanced; sheeted mist lashed with lightning enveloped the convoy, through which rang the tremendous clang of the cannon.
Out on the plain, where the mistwas clearing along the edge of a belt of trees, something was moving.
In the valley the vapours were rising; behind the curtain of shredded mist the landscape lay hilly, nearly treeless, cut by winding roads and rank on rank of spare poplars.
They pressed around her; she saw, through the flare of yellow light, a sea of rosy faces; a vague mist of lace set with jewels; and she smiled at them while the colour deepened in her cheeks.
A mist drove across the meadows; from the plains, dotted with poplars, a damp wind blew in puffs, driving the fog before it until the blank vapour dulled the faint morning light and the dawn faded into a colourless twilight.
The room was becoming lighter; the sky grew faintly luminous and the mist from the stagnant fen curled up along the turret like smoke.
And now there came both mistand snow, And it grew wondrous cold, And ice, mast high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
The purple mist of distance hung like a gauzy veil over the mountain tops, a blue haze half hid the greenery of the woods, there were parks of verdure dotted over with flowering trees and bushes, in which bright-winged birds flitted or sang.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
