She delights to hover for a time, like a ghost, over the graves of dead men who know not and care not: to the living she is a veritable Ignis Fatuus.
Years trode upon the heels of flying years, And still my Ignis Fatuus flew before; On thorny paths my eager feet pursued, Till she whose fond heart doted on my dreams Passed painless to the pure eternal peace.
The Ignis Fatuus is a luminous appearance, which is most frequently observed in boggy districts and near rivers, though sometimes also in dry places.
What shells would he not have expended upon the poor ignis fatuus!
Fallen trees were magnified into guns and mortars; variegated bushes into soldiers; the light between the trees into flags; and the midnight ignis fatuus, on its nocturnal rambles, into torches and lights of the enemy.
This misconception of their character would have led him wrong as often as the ignis fatuus.
If it should prove that they gave up an ignis fatuus for the light of the star that guided the wise men of old to the crib of the Infant Redeemer, did they not do well rather than ill?
I felt sure she would forsake the ignis fatuusof Protestantism at last for 'the light of the star that guided the wise men' of old, though she was so long in making up her mind.
In the graces of writing and eloquence, he far surpassed that other popular preacher at Notre Dame who has proved to be but an ignis fatuus.
It is astonishing that the phenomenon of ignis fatuus, though reported from so many parts of the world, has not yet been made the subject of direct scientific examination.
At least two more plausible explanations ofignis fatuus have been offered in the last few years.
Denham once saw an ignis fatuus in a boggy place, between two rocky hills, in a dark and calm night.
To lay this aside, and judge only by feeling or fancy, is to criminally reject a light which we are sure is from God, and follow one which may prove an ignis fatuus, and land us in the quagmire of infidelity.
To the fancy of an affrighted mortal, the simple flame of the Ignis Fatuus has assumed the form of a departed friend, and even found a supernatural voice.
The true name of this ignited gas is ignis fatuus.
But that the ignis fatuus mentioned by Derham as having been seen by himself, and which he describes as flitting about a thistle, was, though he seems of a different opinion, no other than some luminous insect, I have little doubt.
Why does an ignis fatuus or Will o'the Wisp FLY from us when we RUN to MEET it?
When we run towards an ignis fatuus, we produce a current of air, which drives the light gas forwards.
Some writers have attempted to account for these phenomena, particularly for the ignis fatuus, by supposing it to be occasioned by successive swarms of flying glowworms, or other insects of the same nature.
In travelling by night, in the beginning of April, through the valleys of Mount Ephraim, he was attended for more than an hour by an ignis fatuus that displayed itself in a variety of extraordinary appearances.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignis fatuus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
