There was a brassy glimmer in the cloudy west; the rest of the sky was covered by thick vapors.

A dark shadow lay on the water, and it could hardly be distinguished from the thick vapors above it.

As the day waned, the sinuosities of the forest became more blended; the depth of the valleys was lost in thick vapors.

At length the morning came, but the light was not strong enough to scatter the fogs and thick vapors that rested upon the land.

Thick vapors, which could not have been clouds, were floating around them.

"And God said, 'Let the light appear'," through the thick vapors.