The summits of the mountains were mistily purple. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They neared a lamp, shining mistily in the drizzle. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Berta was smiling mistily around into the fair face. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
"Yes, I wore a Lacroix dress," she recalled mistily. From Wordnik.com. [How an Uptown Girl Gets On: QVC, Foreman Grills, Chocolate] Reference
'Lycidas' and Shelley's mistily shimmering 'Adonais.'. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
When she simply smiled, mistily disbelieving, he swore. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Gazing at him mistily, she reached up and touched his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness]
She opened her eyes and smiled mistily at him, still humming. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The disc became obscured, as if their eyes were blurred mistily. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
Probably at “mistily metaphysical,” which she never, never was. From Wordnik.com. [‘The inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude’] Reference
She pulled out the bowl and stared mistily at the shaky red gelatin. From Wordnik.com. [A Baby For Emily]
"Nicky --" She blinked mistily and reached tremulous arms toward him. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
Something was beginning to form mistily in front of the seated sorceress. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
"I don't know, I'm sure," said I, mistily; "a declaration of love, perhaps --". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
He wakes up slowly, mistily, dizzily, with a vague memory of having fallen asleep on plush. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Fireflies danced in the grasses, and the stars pricked out mistily through a gauze of cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
A damp coolness rose from the ground as the evening rain evaporated mistily into the still air. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Young eyes looked up at their instructors mistily, for the dawn of utter sacrifice was in them. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
How the tiny green island rose mistily before the eyes in all its sun-bathed romance and mystery!. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
It seemed impossible that they could know her, so softly and so mistily it shut her in from the world. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The morning was dawning mistily, and the pursuers appeared to be getting out of their course for a time. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
He suspected that the hills rising mistily ahead were part of a continuous slope, but could not be sure. From Wordnik.com. [The Talkative Tree] Reference
At these unexpected words of praise the girl's smile appeared mistily for a moment, and then quivered away. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
Yannis welcomed her with extravagant admiration, and Maria appeared in the kitchen doorway, smiling mistily. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
As we rode farther, the purple of the Khalkist Mountains rose gradually, mistily out of the eastern margins. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
Ellen smiled mistily, and said, “But if,” then corrected herself, “when I leave, what about this house?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
What surging memories of a mother's love, of a mother's eternal tender care, swarmed up mistily before the eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
A pearly blackness invaded her, mistily seeping into the edges of consciousness, and she knew that death was near. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
He lay on his back, staring straight up at one single star that rocked mistily through a thinning of cloud-stuff overhead. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER V] Reference
The moon shone mistily, and on its dark part she made out steady sparks, the light of tech-nocomplexes and the Triple City. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Parisian society, slowly forgetting the past, and the folly which she had taken for love little by little faded mistily away. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The girls ran to the window, and, sure enough, the sun was beginning to shine, feebly and mistily, to be sure, but yet unmistakably. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
There was a pause, while a little breeze stirred the starry, perfume-laden branches about them, shimmering mistily in the moon's haze. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Flora wept mistily all through the ceremony, but Adele was composed enough for two. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
The sad light of the November morning dawned mistily through the uncurtained window, and woke him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallen Leaves] Reference
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