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Example sentences for "mistily"

Lexicographically close words:
misted; misteries; mistery; mistess; misthress; mistiness; mistis; mistiss; mistletoe; mistook
  1. She drew it, pendent on its slender stem, slowly across her lips, her eyes shining mistily with waking dreams.

  2. For a time he did not know where he was, and his gaze wandered mistily from face to face.

  3. Then, as death would not take her, she gradually began to go into Parisian society, slowly forgetting the past, and the folly which she had taken for love little by little faded mistily away.

  4. The best study for such a day--or the best amusement: call it what you will--is a book of travels describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one which is mistily presented through the windows.

  5. Thus the great city--the city of her ambitions--sank mistily on the horizon.

  6. The course skirted the mountainous coast of Mexico, which showed mistily on the starboard horizon.

  7. There was the palely glowing sky ahead, and on each side the black reflection of the tree-laden banks, mistily mysterious now and very lovely.

  8. The sun has risen and peers mistily over the top of the grey curtain that surrounds us.

  9. There were always the gas-jets burning over the two dark corners and the top shelves even in the brightest of weather, were mistily shrouded by dust and distance.

  10. At the other end, mistily and vaguely, figures passed.

  11. Then the tugs began to come down, very comforting and friendly, their lights gliding mistily through the wet.

  12. The lights of Barnes showed mistily across the river, like lamps in a photograph.

  13. In the centre of the golden glade, and with all their faces mistily glorified by the evening light, he saw a group of little girls, singing and dancing as they performed some quaint and graceful pageant of childhood.

  14. The mischief died out of it, and something vague and soft welled up in her eyes, making them mistily grey and lustrous.

  15. Small wonder, after such an encounter, if she was brought to the verge of hysteria, her feminine reason unseated, her mind wandering mistily over the forgotten past.

  16. Hugo's face kept rising mistily beside the so different visage of the man he had instinctively disliked, his ancient hoodoo.

  17. Her advance had brought her fully into what light there was, falling mistily through lattice and door.

  18. An undulating landscape, with a homely farmstead here and there, and plenty of old English timber scattered grandly over it, extended mistily to my right; on the left the road is overtopped by masses of noble forest.

  19. A terrible force, Hungry and destructive, Emanates from their mistily blinking eyes.

  20. Nort was rather mistily in search of "something to do.

  21. Her coming life rose up like a great maze, about which all the characters now apparently mingled therein wandered mistily in and out.

  22. It had occasionally come mistily over the Indian Ocean, in the shape of formal letters--the only letters that ever visited the dull London house where she spent her shut-up childhood, and acquired the accomplishments of her teens.

  23. In the charge room there was confabulation, and Old Mole gaped round him: the furniture, the large men in uniform swam mistily before him.

  24. We were at one end of a vortex, a funneling within the radiant vapors; a funnel whose further end a mile ahead broadened out into a huge circle, its mistily outlined edges impinging upon the towering scarp of the--city.

  25. Out of the mistily luminous distances, three abreast and filling the corridor from side to side, raced upon us a company of the great spheres!

  26. Overhead was flawless blue, and there was a dreamy violet where it merged mistily with the skyline ridges.

  27. For a time she remained mistily visible, dark and gaunt with her bared spars.

  28. As soon as my head felt the pillow the fresh colouring of his face appeared blurred, and an arm, mistily large, was extended to put out the light of the lamp screwed to the bulkhead.

  29. They glided mistily before me, as I walked.

  30. When I returned to my chamber, the glow of an astral lamp was penetrating mistily through the white curtain of Zenobia's drawing-room.

  31. In a very short space of time the little cloud grew bigger, the wind died away altogether, and the stars began to look mistily from a sky no longer blue.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.