Myth and legend, however grand, may not enter into the affairs of the Empire lest we become unsettled in our minds, and the solid rock upon which depends the stability of all the West become as insubstantial mist or shifting sand.

But teeth, even dragon teeth, had little effect on the insubstantial mist that Guenhwyvar suddenly became.

He was a very sweet young man, Inos thought, but as insubstantial as a morning mist.

They passed through it as if it were no more than insubstantial mist and emerged in the corridor outside.

It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.

"On the isle, then dissolved into an insubstantial mist."

The giant folded a bit more tightly, the panther it had been squeezing turning to insubstantial mist.

She turned on to the Dean Bridge, enjoying the spectacle of walking above tree-top level, with random blocks of light from the backs of the New Town tenements glowing pale-yellow through the insubstantial mist.

Down came the blade, but it hit only insubstantial mist, and the drider's cry turned to one of frustration.