Only the steamy mist remained; from it, there staggered a grotesque sight - The Shadow, with a half-dead crook sprawling from his shoulders.

Through a gap in the steamy mist I had seen their eyes; dull, expressionless, intent on their task: and their task was to let no one leave the blood.

The door was open and the view from the living room took in the power station, the river, the dark wormholes of former river tracks and banks of steamy mist.

The landscape is lush and green from spring rains, but summer brings a stifling heat that shrouds the region, "China's oven," in a halo of steamy mist.

A steamy mist was rising up now from the great warm chocolate river, and out of the mist there appeared suddenly a most fantastic pink boat.

The sea rolled in on the dunes and the swamp sent up a steamy mist that burned my eyes and blotted out the sun.

The lagoon itself can be a bit "public swimming pool" when rowdier guests turn up, but it's big enough that you can swim off into the steamy mists.

Behind her right shoulder, some miles off, a white, steamy mist almost hid the mountains she had just zipped through.

The mountain rose up from out of the cloud-covered waters of a lake fed by hot streams, so that steamy mists drift perpetually over the lake.

She glanced back at Nightshade, but the witch did not respond, a tall and dark etching against the hollow's steamy mist.