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
It was a misty start to Kirkwood's final day as her Breakfast presenting colleagues read out messages and shared memories from viewers expressing their appreciation.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
Its natural diversity includes misty rainforests, great lakes and snow-capped mountains.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Today, over half a century later, it’s gray and misty and I’m feeling reflective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
“Look there,” he said, turning around at the door, “look out over that swamp, Lee. See the color? That misty red? Chris says that’s spring.”
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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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
A bold, sweeping outline of distant hills, here and there swelling into mountains, and crowned with a deeper, mistier blue, divided the rich green of the earth from the azure of the heavens.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
“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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To Zodiac after a while they came— The twistiest, mistiest town, With odd little collopy, scallopy streets Meandering up and down.
From Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann by Bromhall, Winifred
Jacob Boehm's mistiest dreams are clearness itself compared with the English prophet's utterances.
From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus
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
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)
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