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Example sentences for "mists"

Lexicographically close words:
mistrust; mistrusted; mistrustful; mistrusting; mistrusts; mistus; misty; misunderstand; misunderstanding; misunderstandings
  1. Perhaps some good, thick mists will come to reconcile you with the migration.

  2. But Jim's ill-humor had vanished like mists before the sun.

  3. He passed through the wicket, and stood on the hill-top watching the mists sinking lower.

  4. The mists are dissolving, and life emerges like the world at daybreak.

  5. Why not have said at once, if that is all you mean, that two mists met, and one drove the other back?

  6. Note the handsomely curled hair and neatly tied sandals of the men who had been out all night in the sea-mists and on the slimy decks.

  7. It is very steep, furrowed with ravines, and placed so as to catch the mists of the Western Ocean, and has a noble and picturesque effect from all points of view.

  8. The mists above the morning rills Rise white as wings of prayer; The altar curtains of the hills Are sunset's purple air.

  9. One sees it through poetic mists that veil every prosaic reality.

  10. The fever-mists were heavy and the peasants sickened.

  11. Mary turned her eyes from the fleet that was gradually becoming enveloped in the mists of the darkening afternoon.

  12. There were swans and ducks on the lake; they, like the water on which they swam, were touched with this universal hue of gold, and seemed to be cleaving a way through glimmering mists of sunshine.

  13. They rode clear of the trees now, and saw before them the beautiful valley soft and veiled in the mists of morning.

  14. Bretoneux had warned her that the damp mists and rain would be bad for him she put aside all timidity.

  15. She wrote about the birds and the fishes over near the pond, and about the morning mists that cover the fields and the water.

  16. Between heaven and earth the wind whirls on its storms of hail and lightning, wafts its warm mists or breathes in gentle breezes.

  17. With the fading out of shore and sea and forest line something deeper and more spiritual rises in the soul as the mists rise on the lowlands and over the surface of the waters.

  18. We rarely know our best friends on their best side; our vision of their noblest selves is constantly obscured by the mists of preoccupation and weariness.

  19. White mists and grey fog hung over the meadows.

  20. Autumn mists darkened the air, and the sea-breeze drove a fine, drizzling spray through the streets.

  21. The mountain-top catches the first ray of light, and its base, still wrapt in mists and darkness, is disturbed by the irradiating power.

  22. May they not be the truths of a former world, of which we receive the dim outshadowing in the present, like the faint lights of a distant Pharos, seen through the mists of the wide ocean?

  23. Then his brain reeled; for he was in no fit condition to withstand a draft of singular potency, and again the mists came, and he lapsed into the void.

  24. She was almost feverishly desirous of seeing him thoroughly established in a bright and cheerful home before the gathering mists shut him out forever from her sight.

  25. So that is how John Darien Power acquired the somewhat jerky movement which characterizes his walk today; though the cause of it is blurred by the mists of a quarter of a century.

  26. As Gladys hurried on with a light heart and light step, she little thought that those kind eyes which had looked so lovingly at her were clouded with the mists of jealousy in less than five minutes after she had left the farm.

  27. Poor fellow, it was only a passing gleam through the mists of a hard life; let him enjoy it.

  28. On the far bank the mists lay in wisps and streamers above the low-lying meadow, and the dark bulk of cattle and horses loomed through them like rocks in a vaporous sea.

  29. For love had dawned for her again, and no uncertain love, wrapped in the mists of memory, but one that had ripened through liking and friendship and intimacy into the authentic glory.

  30. Like Cephalus at the opening of Plato's Republic, Froude found that he could see more clearly when the mists of sentiment were dispersed.

  31. They walked in a leisurely way for about half an hour, then turned, Mists were creeping westward over Pevensey, and the afternoon air was growing chill.

  32. The long months of weary suffering faded from her recollection as nocturnal mists vanish at the touch of the sun's first fire.

  33. Heavy mists now stretched their draperies over the high lands; and exhalations from the corpse of the summer hung bluish under the rain in the valleys.

  34. It was a cool, gray gloaming, wreathed in diaphanous mists born of past ram.

  35. Mists gathered in his eyes and his breath caught now and again.

  36. You can't stand above the mists and call the crowd to you, but many will follow you up through them.

  37. Now and then a crack mountain shot drew a bead upon them from the bushes; but mists were gathering, the moon was uncertain, and the flickering beams deflected the aim.

  38. All loveliest trees grew there in perfection, sheltered by the mighty wall of the mountain, fed by the mists from the lake.

  39. It was not long before the coast line of France began to push itself up through the distant Channel mists and make itself visible on the horizon.

  40. These dense clouds of vapour obscured the earth from the eyes of the airmen, but with the rising sun the mists lifted.

  41. In other parts of the county where trees grow a curious effect of the excessive humidity is seen in some woods, especially in deep valleys and coombes sheltered from the winds, in which the mists remain longest.


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