vapor-veiled

Updated: July 9, 2025

And the mountain, majestic and vapor-veiled, seemed always to be watching them in their work of protecting and comforting the wrecks that clung to their feet. For that was why this region, despite its soft, reposeful beauty, seemed so sad because of the wrecks, the human wrecks, who dwelt there, who had seized such fast hold of the sphinx-like hills that only death could unloose their grasp.

Florence Finch Kelly - Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories