Not stone blind, but rarely fogged.

They don't realise, these brain-fogged ex-military men, that we are living in days of common sense.

" He said this between clenched teeth, always an unmatey thing to do, and I found myself more fogged than ever.

" "I see," I said, though I didn't, being still fogged.

" I was more fogged than ever.

And it is proof of my fogged condish that my first words to him were words not of reproach and stern recrimination but of inquiry:

I became hopelessly lost and fogged.

The five pounds!" Mike was not always abreast of the rustic idea of humor, and now he felt particularly fogged.

If the fog did not lift, or they did not land, sooner or later they must face disaster.

"Just to think how utterly unconscious those fellows were of the fact that three human beings were hovering right above them and listening to every word of their conversation," chuckled Jimsy; "isn't it queer?" A little while later a steamer's whistle boomed through the fog beneath them, but as the altitude register showed five hundred feet, they did not bother about it.

In the steady hum of their powerful motor the young aviators found consolation in that lonely ride through the billowing fog-banks.

Ten minutes or so later, a puff of wind blew the folds of fog apart for a brief instant.

"Well," said Jimsy, "as there is no sign of the fog lifting yet awhile, what's the matter with our starting out to find the wood-chopper and seeing if he has anything to eat?" "Jimsy, you're a genius," cried Jess.

This fog won't last forever.

But the fog still hung thick.

"Hullo, the fog's lifting," cried Fanning suddenly; "I'm off.

XIX Jean was called up for examination, but with his insufficient preparation he got hopelessly fogged in the intricacies of a difficult, tricky piece of dictation and sums that were too long to be worked in the time allowed the candidates.

As to Sir Hector Trumpler, that luminary of British jurisprudence was evidently completely fogged; for, as statement followed statement, he pursed up his lips and his broad, red face became overshadowed by an expression of utter bewilderment.

The deceptious appearances that are frequently observed at sea, such as the reflection of the sun, ripplings occasioned by the meeting of two opposite currents, whales asleep upon the surface of the water, shoals of fish, fog-banks, and the extraordinary effect of mirage, than which, as an optical illusion, nothing is more deceiving, have doubtless given birth to many of these non-existing shoals and islands.

It is the moment of creation, all is bright, the fog disappears, becomes peopled, is animated, forms appear, they move, they are agitated, they are no illusory shadows; but, on the contrary, essentially material, which cross and recross at every moment.

Luckily Bowers took a round of angles and with help of the chart we fogged out that we must be inside rather than outside tracks.

6 Obviously it was hopeless to stay in Paris waiting for official permission to follow the armies as a correspondent and to penetrate more deeply into the heart of that mystery which was fogged more deeply by the words that came forth every day from the Ministry of War.

I am afraid I shall never free myself from that yoke; on the contrary, the more my mind expands, the more minute will be the knowledge of self, and even on my deathbed I shall not leave off criticising the dying Ploszowski unless disease has fogged my brain.

Until I found myself in that dread place I never knew what fogged and foiled distress meant.

The other, Brian Boroimhe, commonly known to English writers as Brian Boru, a chieftain of the royal Dalcassian race of O'Brien, and the most important figure by far in Irish native history, but one which, like all others, has got so fogged and dimmed by prejudice and misstatement, that to many people his name seems hardly to convey any sense of reality at all.