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He had crossed the river which now, beyond the woods yonder, was sliding darkly under the mist.
She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.
A most useful tool for wetting the surface without running down was made from a greenhouse `` mist spray '' nozzle welded to a hose connection, to be used at low water pressure.
In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.
Another puppet ( from the waist up ) was also designed that had a nozzle in the mouth to spray out liquid mist simulating Godzilla's fire breath.
* The very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric.
His doctor refers him to the prominent laboratory, the California Medical Research Institute, and after nearly three weeks of numerous sophisticated tests, Scott and his team of new doctors learn that the mist to which he was exposed six months earlier while on the ocean was radioactive.
Therefore it was conceived that they had arrived in clouds of mist ".
The inference was that a documented rise in the number of " mist days " was a result of these breezes, where mist days refers to the mist plume of the falls reaching landside.
There was mist which reduced visibility and the weather was poor.
Navigation of the assault craft was made difficult by the smoke and mist obscuring the landmarks they were to use in guiding themselves in, while a heavy current pushed them continually eastward.
The ancient Aztecs believed that the West was the realm of the great goddess of water, mist, and maize.
According to the Book of Fermoy, a Manuscript of the 14th to the 15th century, " he was a pagan, a lawgiver among the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a necromancer possessed of power to envelope himself and others in a mist, so that they could not be seen by their enemies.
The team used a combination of baking soda and cloud tank effects ; the swirling mist created by the water-filled tank was shot on black velvet, and color and dynamic swirls were added by injecting paint into the tank.
The gods spoke the word " Earth " and the earth was formed as if from a mist.
In the middle of the four seas there was an island floating in the mist.

mist and walking
Despite being filmed in mid April, Oddie is walking on a mountain in thick mist and snow.

mist and on
116 .</ ref > When air condenses it becomes visible, as mist and then rain and other forms of precipitation, and as the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones.
She bases this reading on Genesis 1, calling that the true record of creation in contrast to Genesis 2, the false record of creation obscuring the true ( which occurred when " a mist went up from the face of the ground ").
When Louise goes below deck momentarily, a large, strange cloud on the horizon passes over the craft, leaving a reflective mist on Scott's bare skin.
A large bank of very small nozzles is arrayed on the edge of a small rush-filled pond, and when the power is switched on a fine mist of fog billows out.
The intensity ( on the earth ) is independent of the distance, but the light grows whiter because of the atmosphere, and sometimes the ground looks as if it is enveloped in a veil of mist ( second picture ).
* Feilong (), winged dragon that rides on clouds and mist ; also a name for pterosaur ( compare Feilong kick and Fei Long character )
Under a full moon on clear nights, an elusive lunar rainbow or moonbow is sometimes formed by the mist emanating from the falls.
A magical mist arises, and a horseman approaches who throws three spears towards Conn, then asks him and the druid to follow him to his house, which stands on a plain by a golden tree.
Soon after, a magical mist descends on the land leaving it empty of all domesticated animals and humans apart from the four protagonists.
He theorized on the causes of clouds, mist, wind, and rain as well as frost, hail, lightning, and rainbows.
In the mist of the chaos, Sinestro gave Hal Jorden a temporary ring to help him out on missions, but the Guardians attacked them and both rings merged and became faulty and thought Sinestro and Jordan apparently dead so it went in search of a new Lantern, Simon Baz.
Another theory states Woonsocket derives from " thunder mist ," in reference to the largest waterfall on the Blackstone River, which lies at the center of the city.
It is a form of mist sprayed from a water cannon, which leaves a terrible odor of rot or sewage on whatever it touches, and does not wash off easily.
These tricks simulate many of those portrayed on film, such as turning into animals or mist, sleeping in the ground or having unnatural charisma and powers of suggestion.
Your pleasant mist when on early mornings I ascended to the heights!
42 He was paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline and report on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him: " Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like ( must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type ) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells .... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.
The father had found them on the body of an American explorer who had emerged from a neighboring valley which is covered in perpetual mist.

mist and water
Because the water is not heated for evaporation, it produces a cool mist.
* Atmospheric water vapor is found near the earth's surface, and may condense into small liquid droplets and form meteorological phenomena such as fog, mist and haar.
* about 10 µm — size of a fog, mist or cloud water droplet
Techniques for capturing birds are varied and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap for raptors, decoys and funnel traps for water birds.
In addition to the above two, these included the extraction of air using a vacuum pump, the extinction of a flame in a sealed vessel, the raising of water by suction, a demonstration that air has weight, and a demonstration of how fog and mist can be produced in a sealed vessel.
Another study has discounted this opinion and linked mist production primarily to the difference in air and water temperature at the falls.
The amount of natural mist has been reduced since the early 20th century by the diversion of most of the water from the Niagara River for hydroelectricity.
* In the South " is a spring of boiling water shrouded in mist and clouds.
A development is the use of an impulse fire-extinguishing system ( IFEX ), in which the water is highly pressurized into a vaporous mist, creating a cooling effect that is more efficient than that of water alone.
NFPA 750 defines water mist as a water spray with a droplet size of " less than 1000 microns at the minimum operation pressure of the discharge nozzle.
By creating a mist, and equal volume of water will create a larger total surface area exposed to the fire.
The difference is that a water mist system uses a compressed gas as an atomizing medium, which is pumped through the sprinkler pipe.
# physical sensation ( e. g., water mist in face )
When SO < sub > 3 </ sub > is added to water, rather than simply dissolving, it tends to form a fine mist of sulfuric acid, which is difficult to manage.
The source of almost all fresh water is precipitation from the atmosphere, in the form of mist, rain and snow.
Fresh water falling as mist, rain or snow contains materials dissolved from the atmosphere and material from the sea and land over which the rain bearing clouds have traveled.
John Sweetman, author of the book The Dambusters ' Raid, suggests Townsend's report of the moon's reflecting on the mist and water is consistent with an attack that was heading to the Bever Dam rather than to the Ennepe Dam, given the moon's azimuth and altitude during the bombing attacks.
During transformation, the air in the vivarium must remain moist, and the maturing axolotl sprayed with a fine mist of pure water.
Thus, fog and mist ( except when the terms are used to mean " drizzle ") are not precipitation but suspensions, because the water vapour does not condense sufficiently to precipitate.

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