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    London?s centre fog is still covering everything, ?Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs?. Dickens also uses fog to symbolize death and disease, ?Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards?. He makes the reader feel as if it is infecting and killing the inhabitants of London, and gives the reader images. In my opinion Dickens is trying to make the point that the fog is spreading

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    It began with the listless feeling brought on by a Sunday afternoon. A deep, gnawing feeling of being unsettled seated itself within his gut and bit at him incessantly that afternoon, when the bleached seas of fog finally began rolling back and exposing the ghostly monoliths of steel and glass, complimented by the vaguely red bridge on the edge of the city that stretched into the thicket of mist like a pathway to eternal salvation. San Francisco had always been a haunted city; a city of tragic

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    The air, heavy with the morning fog, parts around the three figures like still water around a hull. Crunching rocks and barnacles under boots disrupt the thick silence of the morning, the sharp sound abrasive against the calm lapping of the waves. The woman crouches down pointing at limpet tucked into a crevice between two barnacle blanketed rocks, wet with morning dew but the children are already enraptured with a different creature. Peacefully undulating in a tide pool, the sea anemone’s bright

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    The same cloud that is not fog on lower ground may be fog where it contacts higher ground such as hilltops or mountain ridges. A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology

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    The Killer Smog of London 1952 Imagine going outside and not being able to see the sidewalk right in front of your house because the fog is so thick. Fog is a thick cloud of tiny water droplets near the earth's surface, smog is fog that is mixed with smoke. During this event, the Great Smog of London killed an estimated 8,000 - 12,000 people. Furthermore, the fog that came down of December 5, 1952 mixed with chemicals that were already in the air. As a result, the air became toxic. In this case

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    originated their journey. Secondly, the traveler will notice the fog.

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    January is a month for fog, kind of gray, a let down from the holidays, of course the 27th is a bright spot, it’s my birthday. As a child, it wasn’t an ideal birthday month; always a worry that the cold and snow would keep friends from coming to celebrate however, my friends like the fog always came. This year the fog came even thicker, January 8th, a call from Jacob, our son in law said “Keli” our youngest “was in the ER this morning. She woke me up at 3:00 a.m. cried; call 911, she couldn’t talk

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    woke up my cousin. I heard a truck pass by thinking it was our uncle and I got ready like a torpedo. I stepped outside, but to my surprise it was just the gas truck. Finally, after 20 minutes we see my uncle’s truck lights through the thick morning fog; we grabbed our lunches, and our hats, and shuffled into the truck. We were headed toward Piedras de Lumbres, a little village where we were going hike to see Saint Antonio del Varal. The trip to the village was smooth. When we got there, Daniel, our

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    After encountering the Hoarders and Wasters, Maddy, accompanied by her guide Keanu, come to the region where the DRIFTERS had been damned. This region in the lower FOURTH CIRCLE was particularly cool with a thick fog settled around their feet. As Maddy walks ahead a light mist begins to fall. The sinners here are tending to a dry garden bed. Feeble browned plants are equally spaced apart, giving each sinner their own plant to tend to. Watching and directing them is an ominous shaded figure referred

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    The early morning fog loomed as far as he could see, it was almost tangible, shrouding everything in a thick white veil, the light barely managing to penetrate the haze. The sounds of birdsong and motors that should have been filling the air around me all seemed to have disappeared, even her footsteps had been swallowed by the greedy beast. I pulled her brown winter jacket closer to her body, hoping to gain some sense of warmth that morning. It was to no avail, the fog seemed to be leaching

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