Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizzly
Literary usage of Mizzly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"It's a mizzly sort o' rain." MOBBERLEY CLOCK. At Wilmslow the following colloquial
saying is current:—" Always too late like Mobberley Cloch," MOBBERLEY ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
""It's a mizzly sort o' rain." MOBBERLEY CLOCK. At Wilmslow the following colloquial
saying is current:—" Always too late like Mobberley Cloch. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The scene is obscured by the storm; the thick driving flakes throw a brownish
mizzly shade over all things,—air, trees, hills, and every avenue the eye has ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"NORTH. that muddy and mizzly misnomer—Summer; while the Autumn Weather ! ît never
deserved the name of weather, James, even during SHEPHERD. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"A mizzly, drizzly rain set in before the poor people got home that evening with
the body of Clayton ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"The ship is ready to sail from the port of Liverpool: time, Autumn, and a dark,
mizzly afternoon: the sailors are ready; when the ' skipper' emerges upon ..."
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