A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through thehazy downpour.

Hishazy awareness was no more than an awareness of something--which, by the way, corresponds very fairly with thehazy awareness of the average human of the mysteries of birth and death and of the beyondness about which they have no definiteness of comprehension.

It was one of these covered days of fitful sunshine, of light, unsteady winds, with a swell from the westward, andhazy in general, but with the land about the Cape at times distinctly visible.

This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and thehazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal.

My spiritual conscience requireth from me that it should be so--that I should know one thing, and not know all else: they are a loathing unto me, all the semi-spiritual, all thehazy, hovering, and visionary.

There were neither leaves nor roses on them now and Mary did not know whether they were dead or alive, but their thin gray or brown branches and sprays looked like a sort ofhazy mantle spreading over everything, walls, and trees, and even brown grass, where they had fallen from their fastenings and run along the ground.

In a suit of coarse flannel with horn buttons, a yellow neckerchief with draggled ends, an old hat more russet-coloured than black, and laced boots of the hue of his stony calling, Durdles leads ahazy, gipsy sort of life, carrying his dinner about with him in a small bundle, and sitting on all manner of tombstones to dine.

"Swyington Bumper?" and Ned's voice showed that his memory was a bithazy.

I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of ahazy atmosphere.

It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled andhazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads.

But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea he began to appear on deck withhazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness.

It was now the beginning of winter, and I never saw a more cheerless prospect; the dusky woods, piebald with snow, could be only seen indistinctly, through a drizzlinghazy atmosphere.