1.   The morning mist was lifting and the sun was coming up.

2.   The heavy mist rarely lifted but closed in like a cold, clinging cloud around us.

3.   Master Benjamin joined me, gaily prophesying that the mist would soon lift and it would be another splendid day.

4.   The mist had lifted from a countryside now hard and black under an iron frost.

5.   At sunset, the downstream mist lifted to reveal the soaring, ice-encrusted ramparts of the St. Elias Range rearing up into the clouds.

6.   The mist was lifting in sunny, spring weather, an evacuated passenger said.