mizzle
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The murk and mizzle kept the players off for almost three hours, though the break did little to stall England's momentum.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
Yet for the Seahawks the murk and mizzle of this grey Wembley evening felt like a home from home as they pummelled the Oakland Raiders 27-3.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2018
We have many names for rain, from mizzle to drizzle, torrents to downpours.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2017
After a warm, moonlit night the mist and mizzle descended, making it impossible to judge the moment when the sun rose over the Wiltshire plain without an accurate watch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
I'm still at the "Crown," Though I said in my last—wot wos true—I was jest on the mizzle for town.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
I kud smell the thing afore I wur half-way, an’ when I got near it, the birds mizzled.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
How monarchs die is easily explained, For thus upon their tombs it might be chiselled; As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled!
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
The gentleman that employed me has mizzled, and he promised me fifty pounds.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
The maids in haste Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes And laughing hurry in to keep them dry.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
By the time I left the cathedral it was already dark, mizzling, the kind of rain that looks like mist but drenches you in minutes.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
There is page after page of italic script describing in wonderful language the "mizzling rain", "gleamings" of sunshine and "prismatic solar halos".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012
That very same night, a cold mizzling rain began to fall, and the autumn set in with a violent wind.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
I merely saw the town through a misty, mizzling rain, and that the road all around it was sandy and heavy, or that all was discoloured by my own disturbed view.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
Putting to sea again, with a south-east wind and a mizzling rain, they were soon all wet to the skin.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
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