124 Verbs to Use for the Word mists

"And if Thy Spirit on Thy child hath shed The gift, the vision of the unsealed eye, To pierce the mist o'er life's deep meanings spread, To reach the hidden fountain-urns that lie Far in man's heartif I have kept it free And pure, a consecration unto Thee, I bless Thee, O my God!

The Second Promenade Again the sun rose clear and bright, and again, having dispelled the mist and chill of the early morning, it lured forth for the inevitable promenade such of the sojourners at Weet-sur-Mer as had managed to get to bed before dawn.

Certainly, that man has a design of building up to himself real fame in good earnest, by things well laid and spoken: his way to effect it is not by talking staringly, and casting a mist before the people's eyes; but by offering such things by which he may be esteemed, with knowledge and understanding.

The only thing about which I had any qualms, was the circumstance that south-west winds were apt to bring mists, and that the boat might thus be lost.

And as he approached it, the wind clearing a high blowing mist from the stars, he saw a jumble of outlying houses.

A very slight and cursory perusal of the bill, my lords, will dissipate all the mists which eloquence can raise; it will show that the law now proposed can neither be useful nor ineffectual, but that it must operate very powerfully, though in a manner by no means agreeable to its title.

His steeds are the winds; oh, list, How he madly sweeps o'er the clouds, And scatters the driving mist.

The rosy-finger'd morn appears, And from her mantle shakes her tears: The sun arising mortals cheers, And drives the rising mists away, In promise of a glorious day.

[Illustration] In The Last of the Barons, by lord Lytton, friar Bungey is an historical character, and is said to have "raised mists and vapors," which befriended Edward IV, at the battle of Barnet.

He was a juggler, who threw mists before your eyesyou had no time to detect his fallacies.

You'll come back with me to that new world" What was it, what word in the tender, loving speech that, like a breath of wind sweeping away a mountain mist, cleared the mist from her mind, woke her from her strange, dream-like condition, recalled the past, and, alas!

Soft, dewy tears melted in those burning eyes, and sent a mist of sweet effluence over her face.

But upon a morning, ere the sun had chased the rosy mists into marsh and fen, Beltane strode forth from the cave wherein he slept, and lifting the hunting horn he bare about his neck, sounded it fierce and shrill.

I saw my Meg come linkan o'er the lea; I saw my Meg, but Peggy saw na me, For yet the sun was wading thro' the mist, And she was close upon me e'er

Then swept she onward, breathing mist and cloud, While from my bosom this reflection broke; Although I think the steam-boat something proud, Such lofty questions often end in smoke.

An hour of it had failed to disperse the mist, when there was borne down to the warship a flapping sound as of great wings.

My companion, who had not the former advantage, though wrapped in as many outer garments and quilts as I had thought necessary, felt the cold severely, and felt still more the dense chill mist which both by night and day covered the greater part of the country.

Rain had ceased to fall, but a fine, cold, penetrating mist filled the air.

Now watch!" At this very moment a sudden gust from the sea blew aside the mist, so that a lane opened to the sky, and the moon, ghastly and unnatural as the effect of stage limelight, dropped down in a momentary gleam upon the door of Sangree's tent, and I perceived that something had moved forward from the interior darkness and stood clearly defined upon the threshold.

" She made a gesture of brushing a mist away from her and then stepped back a little.

50 And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.

She seemed to wipe away the mists of sleep.

A sharp, sobbing cry, striking the mist three or four times in rapid succession,hushing suddenly,breaking into shrieks like a frightened child's,dying plaintively down.

There was the moon, and there the stars, all bright and glorious in the heavens above; and there another moon, and other stars, as bright and glorious, down in the vault below; the lake floating, as it were, an almost viewless mist, a shadowy and transparent veil between.

Several of our informants, however, had chosen bad days, and after all their labour, found a thick mist over everything that was worth seeing.

124 Verbs to Use for the Word  mists