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Word: misting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Lookout's side, in the valley's mist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORMING OF MISSION RIDGE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...mist, which still remained, gave the scene an unsubstantial, dreamy look, reminding me of the fantastic stories of the Arabian Nights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FETE IN VENICE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...gondola carries me down the Canal in silence, only broken by the cry of some gondolier, shooting out from the shadow into the Canal. He looks like some Charon in the gloomy light of the candles looming through the mist. Soon the hum of many voices breaks on me, and, turning a bend, I come on the Rialto, which is one mass of fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FETE IN VENICE. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

Like a cloak the mist spread o'er the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONADNOCK. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

Brilliant indeed was the appearance of Joaquin Miller (a truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR POETS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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