"Foggy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are travelling, a storm comes up and it grows so foggy they can't see how to follow the rivers—don't they ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... which I cast often, I found that a little after midnight I was passing the east point of the island, and should soon be clear of dangers of land and shoals. The wind was holding free, though it was from the foggy point, south-southwest. It is said that within a few years Sable Island has been reduced from forty miles in length to twenty, and that of three lighthouses built on it since 1880, two have been washed away and the third ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum
... nations. We can fit out vessels at less expense, and by reason of the westerly winds, which prevail on our coasts in February and March, can go to the banks earlier in the season than the Europeans, and take the best fish. We can dry it in a clearer air than the foggy shores of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. We can supply every necessary from among ourselves; vessels, spars, sails, cordage, anchors, lines, hooks, and provision. Salt can be imported from abroad cheaper than it can be made at home, if it be not ...
— Travels in the United States of America • William Priest
... fur," said Mrs. Pearson. "It is much too cold and foggy for Muriel to go out. I heard ...
— The Nicest Girl in the School - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... of M. Zola's new retreat were very extensive, and in part very shady, which last circumstance proved extremely welcome to the novelist, who on coming to 'cold, damp, foggy England,' as the French put it, had never imagined that he would have to endure a temperature approaching that of ...
— With Zola in England • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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