0 a thick cloud of fog, especially over the sea
But it was a losing race, for ten minutes later Steve saw that the fog bank was rolling down upon them and from somewhere to the eastward came the dismal hoot of a steamer feeling her way along.
Fog banks in that section are unheard of at nine o'clock in the morning at this season, and we were more than a hundred miles from land, and what could fog and sand be doing there.
The fog bank had scattered, and appeared now to be in a dozen smaller masses, floating off in the direction of Mobile Point.
The wind was fresh from the south-west, which rolled up the fog banks, and then rolled them away.
To the north and north-east the fog banks hung low on the sea.
His first view was of an approaching fog bank, which in this area could last for some days.
Rose produced a fog bank before making landfall, which is unusual for a tropical cyclone.
Half hidden, the hunters occupy an ambiguous position, and it is uncertain whether the line above them denotes the horizon or a fog bank.