Example sentences of "the mists of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 2 | Even Jezrael hauled herself up by the strappings on a crate : silver lights shone through the mists of twilight . |
| 3 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 4 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 5 | No longer used for England selection purposes , the event has been trimmed , condensed and diminished , and apart from upholding a vestige of regional pride is now becoming lost in the mists of tradition . |
| 6 | Through the mists of agony and fear he looked back at the dragon . |
| 7 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 8 | In recent years the clarity and compassion of the ‘ dissenting voice ’ — that of the liberal Protestant , allied to radicalism , socialism and even nationalism — has seemed to fade into the mists of history , gravely neglected by historians , often drowned by the sectarian rhetoric of extreme loyalism . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , this view was not shared by those who , through no fault of their own , had been charged with the task of guiding me through the mists of ignorance to the sunny uplands of clarity and understanding . |
| 10 | As a test of his strength Utnapishtim challenged him to stay awake for six days and seven nights — " But while Gilgamesh sat there resting on his haunches , a mist of sleep like soft wool teased from the fleece drifted over him , and Utnapishtim said to his wife , " Look at him now , the strong man who would have everlasting life , even now the mists of sleep are drifting over him . " " |
| 11 | She struggled to sit up , still wrapped in the mists of sleep , and he transferred his gaze from her shoulders to her breasts . |
| 12 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |
| 13 | Lili , needless to remark , is unhappy : when she is in the heat of the Nile she longs for the mists of England , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 15 | From the mists of antiquity the spirit of the most ancient of Irish healers , Dian Cecht must surely be calling to you to ponder on what you have done . |
| 16 | And out of the mists of prehistory stepped Homo Guinnessens , or Pro-Guinness Man , and the search for the Perfect Pint began . |
| 17 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
| 18 | With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book . |
| 19 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 20 | THE TRUE ORIGINS of aromatherapy have evaporated into the mists of time . |
| 21 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 22 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 23 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 24 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 25 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 26 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 27 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 28 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 29 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 30 | Now , from rock nineteen ninety three style , let us move slowly back into the mists of time and a real rave from the grave : Elvis . |