Word: misted
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From the roseate mist that enveloped him came voices, soft voices, now merry, now serious. Visions danced before his eyes, and the Past, with all its glorious heartache, its reality and poiguaney dimmed by the soothing touch of Time, revolved slowly through his idling brain...
...soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...
...forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere...
...mist drove away the fear that the Vagabond had felt at the sound of trucks. It was Cambridge and not Bediam after all even if it was the drizzle that proved the point. The noise of trunks bumping on the steps of Thayer and Matthews, of Gallatin and Walter Hastings would have jarred on the Vagabond's nerves on a bright sunny day when sounds seemed to reverberate from their origin. But the rain was a dull absorbent muffler. It was like--thought the Vagabond--it was like a ball of wool falling on a Persian...
...yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there...