misty
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A striking new pitviper with a vivid grass-green body and amber-like eyes has been discovered in the misty mountains of western Sichuan, China.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
There was also a tribute to the late Rob Reiner and some misty watercolor memories from Barbra Streisand for the late Robert Redford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Tehreem's visit to Greenwich was "misty and slightly rainy", but she didn't care.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Its natural diversity includes misty rainforests, great lakes and snow-capped mountains.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Her hair is fanned out around her face, a mixture of gray and misty brown.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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Like a lot of farmers, 54-year-old Graham Wilson from Dylife in Powys juggles a few different businesses, one of which involves heading up into the mistier fields and forests, whatever the weather.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
Gray and damp at 10 a.m., it proved grayer, mistier and wetter at 6 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
But this version of “The Visit” has another dimension, too, a mistier one that exalts the notion of deathless love.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2015
The “twilight” of the exhibition’s title has as much to do with the mistier regions of consciousness as with the borderlands of real-world time and space.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010
She is the most definite embodiment of all those fluctuating mystical instincts, of which Gaia,* the mother of the earth's gloomier offspring, is a vaguer and mistier one.
From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter
“I think we will leave the lesson here for today,” said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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Yet Leith Hill, even on the mistiest day, can give the true notion of height.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
Experiments were indeed being made at the same time, with a view to armour-plating the hulls of ships, but all that was still in the dimmest and mistiest future.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
"I imagine great strength is needed for hunting bears," observed Alexey Alexandrovitch, who had the mistiest notions about the chase.
From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance
That has always a great effect upon the English, whose feudal notions are rather of the mistiest, and principally derived from Waverley.”
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
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