misty sea

So, as the sun became high and painfully fierce, we led out upon a waste of dunes, rolling southward for miles down hill to the misty sea, where it lay grey-blue in the false distance of the heat.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

She went to the window and leaned out into the night over the misty sea.

A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Low in the north -- as the country tale went -- tied to follow her emotions, externally separate, eternally true to the fixed star of her gaze, the Waggoner tilted his wheels and drove them close and along and above the misty sea.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Captain Pond's authority, however, was not to be disobeyed, and a quarter of an hour later he found himself, with Sergeant Topase beside him, on the platform of the eighteen-pounder battery, watching the first rosy streaks of dawn as they spread and travelled across the misty sea at his feet.

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

I looked around me: on one side empty dunes, orchards, and meadows, without house or steeple; on the other, the blue and misty sea, empty to where distant islets were profiled black on the horizon.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

Then straightway the son of Peleus set forth other prizes for fleetness of foot; a mixing-bowl of silver, chased; six measures it held, and in beauty it was far the best in all the earth, for artificers of Sidon wrought it cunningly, and men of the Phoenicians brought it over the misty sea, and landed it in harbour, and gave it a gift to Thoas; and

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882