Mistify

Enwrap all this, and more in your imagination, as it is enveloped in the soft transparent haze of this delicious clime, beautifying and mistifying all around, and you may fancy somewhat of the reality.

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That for six thousand years — and no one knows how many millions of ages before — the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings—that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock PM of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all really water, or nothing but vapor —this is surely a noteworthy thing.

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The same fog will cover any area and mistify it as the general adjustable criticism does any book.

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But premature darkness began to mistify distant objects before we had the mules out of the corral.

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