The ignis fatuus that leads your daughter from my arms, is not the freedom of Scotland, but the handsome rebel who conquers in its name!
This would be a certain benefit to Scotland; while the ignis fatuus you are now following, however brilliant may be its career during Edward's absence, must on his return be extinguished in disaster and infamy.
After this manner, the son of Picus, King of the Latins, the great soothsayer Faunus, was called Fatuusby the witless rabble of the common people.
If he were the god Fatuus of whom we have already made mention, the husband of the goddess Fatua, his father would be Good Day, and his grandmother Good Even.
The illusion was gone,--the ignisfatuus of adventure, the dream of wealth.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory.
It is the ignus fatuus of my freedom," said he, with a weary smile.
See, the ignis fatuus has disappeared from my cell, the sun will soon shine.
Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory.
Scared and guided by the ignis fatuus of popular superstition.
He could not formulate distinct mechanical conceptions; he could not see the force of mechanical reasoning; and, in regions where such reasoning reigns supreme, he became a mere ignis fatuus to those who followed him.
Lights resembling the ignisfatuus are sometimes observed at sea, skipping about the masts and rigging of ships; and Dr.
Sir Isaac Newton calls it a vapour shining without heat; and supposes that there is the same difference between a vapour of the ignis fatuus and flame, that there is between the shining of rotten wood and burning coals.
From the frequent appearance of the ignis fatuus in marshes, moist ground, burying-places, and dunghills, putrefaction seems to be concerned in the production of it.
Shaw informs us, that he has seen these in such weather as that just mentioned, when he saw the ignis fatuus in Palestine.
A very remarkable account of an ignis fatuus is given by Dr.
May not many GHOST stories have risen from some ignis fatuus lurking about church-yards?
Why does an ignis fatuus run AFTER us, when we FLEE from it in fright?
Why does an ignis fatuus or Will o'the Wisp FLY from us when we RUN to MEET it?
The Ignis Fatuus which, you say, governed your father, seems to have ruled the fortunes of your whole house, there is so much eccentricity in all that you have told me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatuus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
