In "Woman at the Piano" (1875-76), Renoir subsumes his subject in a blue-white mist defined only by a dark ribbon.

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For example, calls from people lost when the mist comes down or they can't find their way when it gets dark, whether or not they have a torch.

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Winblad remembers Gates disappearing on a dark beach after his group had been given the word sea, and then slowly emerging from the mist singing a high-pitched solo of Puff, the Magic Dragon.

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The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.

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