'Good book?' he asked as the shoreline became visible through a drift of sea fret.

Pity you could not see a hand in front of you due to a horrid sea fret.

A bank of sea fret covered the horizon, and the current had settled into long swells that marched down from the north.

He hung there, peering at the horizon to thenorth, vague and smoky with sea fret.

By noon the two figures she followed had dwindled to specks and finally disappeared into the sea fret far ahead up the beach.

In Yorkshire and Northumberland it is commonly referred to as a sea fret.

The land was a blue smear, low on the northern horizon, almost obscured by the breaking waves and the ' swirling sea fret.

In the fading light she had a ghostly, ethereal appearance, athing of wind and wave spume and sea fret.

All the coastal areas of North Norfolk are prey to sea fret from time to time, and Cley is no exception.

Draped in a sea fret, the steep tussock-clad cliffs converged with black-sanded beaches, covered almost entirely with wildlife.

There are several other laybys nearby, but the one in question is situated 200 yards east of a conspicuous isolated bungalow called Sea Fret', marked on the map.

On cloudy days, or even worse, when a sea fret shrouded the island, she remained indoors with the shutters bolted and twists of newspaper stuffed into the cracks.

A faint haze of smoke hung over the workings, like sea fret on a still summer's day, it rose to eddy slowly around the tall bald peaks of the hills.

It stretched away in sweeping curves on each side of her to the very limit of her vision, twenty or thirty kilometres, she estimated, before it shaded into the sea fret.

We walked along the cliffs towards Sheringham, with a sea fret reducing visibility, we suddenly came across a row of deserted cottages soon to be lost to the North Sea.

When he went on deck the sun was lying only a finger above the horizon,so shrouded in purple sea fret that he could look directly at itsfuming red orb with his naked eye.

Silently, the man and the woman stared after the beautiful ship, and neither of them spoke as she merged with the milky sea fret, became a ghostly silhouette, and then quite suddenly was gone.

Nevertheless, I would think it caused problems in steam days, when the east wind lifted a soggy mist from the sea - a "sea fret" as it would be known in these parts.

But through the tears Robyn was still seeing the ghostly image of a tall and beautiful ship fading away into the pearly curtain of sea fret, and the first sob shook her body.

A.16 We clean our pigeons out twice a day, every day, and if we do use a floor dressing because if its damp or there is damp in the air because of sea fret.

Waking just past dawn in the back bedroom of the Old Plough Inn at Hollym, again about a mile inland, I could see that the sea fret was back — and still thicker.

Mrs Brigstock said: "It was a beautiful day, and I was taking him on his usual walk, but all of a sudden, a heavy sea fret set in quickly, and I couldn't see Freddie anymore.

A composition which under almost any other lighting and atmospheric conditions would be mundane, becomes a thing of beauty under the inluence of a 'sea fret' - a coastal fog frequently experienced on the North Sea coast.

He leaned far out, peering back over the stern , and the smoke was a pale wisp, thin as sea fret, lying low against the dark blue sea, drifting away behind them, and dissipating even as he watched it.

The track ran along the edge of the beach, while at their left hand the green surf tipped with ostrich feathers of spume pounded the smooth yellow sands, and before them stretched that dismal featureless littoral, shrouded in a haze of sea fret.