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- noun Plural form of
mist . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mist .
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Examples
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The third movement's off-stage posthorn was heard as though through mountain mists, setting up an aura in which Katarina Karnéus's mezzo soprano was perfectly focused, while the women's voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales – together with the boys of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester cathedral choirs – rang out with bell-like precision.
BBC Now/Otaka – review Rian Evans 2010
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Mr. Bhaer had infinite patience with him, and kept on in spite of the apparent hopelessness of the task, not caring for book lessons, but trying gently to clear away the mists from the darkened mind, and give it back intelligence enough to make the boy less a burden and an affliction.
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The gloom of the past seem to lift from their minds, like the mists from the hills after sunrise.
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* The scholars in our mists might be all wondering to what to attribute the spoonerisms.
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He headed toward the windward side, aiming for where the mists were the most dense.
Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003
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Lost in the mists are the ghosts of sturdy hunters
Towards the Sunset 1997
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See! the mists are already rising in the valley, and the night-birds awake and call.
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That was as far as he could get then, but some time after there came a gleam of light in his understanding, and he recalled the mists that hung about the Channel.
Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870
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A total of 600 of the recalled mists were received on Oct. 6 and recalled this week.
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Unfortunately, the 'mists' may be the mists of wishful thinking.
Davy Crockett Letter Update Bill Crider 2007
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