She lives and writes on a misty green island near Seattle, Washington.

The Chathams are known around here as "the misty islands," and there is a good chance that the sunrise will be obscured by fog.

Deudermont called for full sails the moment they got out of the enveloping fog of Caerwich, and the swift schooner soon put the misty island far, far behind.

It is said you two came close to death in the Forbidden City of the Black Idols, and in the stone trap of Angarngi, and on the misty island in the Sea of Monsters.

The train journey passed quickly with its culminating glory at the coast near Morar; dazzling white sands, sunlit jade seas shadowed with rock, and a horizon broken by misty blue islands.

As we passed among thickly wooded shores and dozens of rock islets, it was easy to imagine our little craft bearing the dead to Avalon, the misty island paradise where Arthur found his final rest.

IN the beautiful, meditative "Oriental Elegy," the master Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov approaches a misty Japanese island and turns the journey into a poetic quest for the afterlife.

On a day of rare warmth and brilliance for this misty island that makes its living off pen-raised salmon and Harris Tweed, Dr. David Owen tackled yet again the most daunting task in British politics.

With quiet country roads wending through vine-striped hills and wild stretches of coastal sands interspersed with misty islands, the Atlantic coast is where the French get back to nature.

"From the dim shieling on the misty island Mountains divide us, and a world of seas; Yet still our hearts are true, our hearts are Highland, And we, in dreams, behold the Hebrides."