I was always amazed at her capacity for food; she ate heartily, yet remained a mere wisp of a shadow.
I am humbled by knowledge, and simply through that which I shall not understand, I have developed the belief that existence on earth is only a mere wisp of that existence which shall follow one's death.
You couldn't get a wisp of hay in there, much less all of me.
It was the merest chance that there was no wisp of straw yet in his beard.
A thousand feet beneath him was a straggling wisp of cloud, so tenuous that you saw the earth through its bulk.
A drifting wisp of cloud helped him a little in the period of waiting.
Twice he thought he heard a reply, and each time the will-o'-the-wisp voice seemed to be still farther ahead of him.
For an hour he kept watch over the plain through his binoculars, seeking for a wisp of smoke that might rise at any time over the treetops.
She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest felt her own helplessness without quite realizing the wisp on the tide that she was.
He is even as wisp in the wind, moved by every breath of passion, acting now by his will and now by his instincts, erring with one, only-a creature of incalculable variability.
Three men come up with loads of hay, and Matt demands toll of them, so they each give him a wisp of hay.
It is only a wisp of melody, rarely rich and suggestive, heard a moment, then gone.
He came from the direction where Bud and the foreman had seen the slim wisp of smoke about an hour before, and as he rode, the man shouted above the thundering thuds of his horse's hoofs: "Help!
We are camped about three miles from here, over there," and he waved his hand toward where Bud and Slim, on their homeward ride, had seen the wisp of smoke.
Mantoux would sweep back an imaginary wisp of hair with an imprecation which I am confident was a "damn!
The Will-o'-the-Wisp can assume all kinds of forms, and appear in every place.
Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her wooden shoes, which were only tied on by a wisp of straw, were carried away by the stream, and thus she was found by Martha when she came to bring her some coffee.
That's enough to make a simple Will-o'-the-Wisp smack his lips.
A wispof hay should be steeped in holy water," added the canon, "with which the steps of the dark passage should be sprinkled.
Three times were the consecrated torches borne round by the archbishop, who, muttering between his teeth, dipped the wisp into a large ewer of holy water, and plentifully besprinkled all present.
A leisurely wispof steam rises from a steamer's funnel.
It was a still night, I remember, of great beauty, with a wisp of a moon hanging over the forest line, the air heavy with odors and vibrant with a thousand insect tones.
A wisp of smoke stole from a stone chimney, and the smell that corn-pone and bacon leave was in the air.
A black wisp of smoke rose from the gunwale of a flatboat, and I stopped to listen to the weird song of a negro, which I have heard many times since.
Almost instantly there was another shot, and a blue wisp of smoke rose from the red-bud bushes, where Tom was.
Adele stuffed anotherwisp of tulle into the pocket of her pinafore.
Now and then there was a wisp of breeze from the lake, but not often.
I can't forget the look of that thin little wisp of a woman, and Lord!
The old pig ran past them carrying a wisp of hay in her mouth, and by common impulse three of the boys threw sticks after her.
Not even a dog barked or rattled a chain, and from no chimney breathed a wisp of smoke.
For this I surely know, that all my days are waste and barren because I suffered my mistress to send me from her after a will-of-the-wisp honour, even as Solita would send her lord.
Being but a little wisp of a man, all malignance and no courage, he would have fled when he saw me.
Afterward your will-of-the-wisp charm held me oddly.
In an instant nothing was left of the struggling body but a wisp of greasy black smoke!
In an instant the body, too, disappeared; an upward coiling wisp of black smoke marking its vanishing.
He could still feel the touch of a wisp of her hair which, in his flying leap, had fallen against his cheek.
Only, I recollect how little Kiyi looked like a wisp of dry hay, and Sadler uncommon large, with his fists on the stone floor on either side, and his head hung over Kiyi, and how the yellow men squatted and said nothing.
Rope-makers, girt with a wispof hemp, walk backward tightening their threads, and twining their ever-growing cable.
