misty
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Restaurants were packed with diners and hotels were fully booked with tourists looking to soak in the region’s misty redwood forests and dramatic ocean views.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Allen Moyer’s set used conveyer belts to slide furniture in from the wings; Greg Emetaz’s misty videos included projections of Orpheus and Eurydice, a subtext in the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
Less grey and misty weather on Thursday morning and more sunshine will allow temperatures in England and Wales to rise rapidly with the warmth drawn up from Europe on a southerly breeze.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
She takes a big gulp of misty March loveliness.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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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 Walter Pater
“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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It was the mistiest spot I ever visited.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Yet Leith Hill, even on the mistiest day, can give the true notion of height.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
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 Winifred Bromhall
It stood for human war and human courage and human deeds from the mistiest past, and behind it must be a weight of human wrath, feats, and tradition that must make even the Snake pause.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren
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