Silky cirruswisps and fringes so fine they almost escape notice.
No cloud mountains, only curly cirrus wisps scarce perceptible, and the want of thunder to strike the noon hour seems strange, as if the Sierra clock had stopped.
These were placed amidships, and the great cooking-ranges, newly blacked and with their polished steel knobs and utensils winking in the glare, vomited wisps of steam and savoury smells.
Its upper edges were frayed and fretted by the wind, and occasional wisps of cloud torn from the main mass were being flung off into space by the upper air-currents, to come scurrying to leeward in low-lying, streaky fragments like spun silk.
Wisps of dark hair lay here and there upon it like the feathers of a crow's torn wing.
The thing that had looked like a bundle of hay or branches resolved itself into a human being; the loose untidiness gave place to definite shape, as leaves, grass, twigs, and wisps of straw fell fluttering from it to the ground.
Wisps of hay had got tangled in her hair, her blouse looked like an impressionist sunset, and one side of her face was red and mottled from lying on the canvas knapsack.
Her large black hat with its sable feather sat just at the wrong angle; wisps of hair straggled at the back of her neck, and one of her gloves was split between the fingers.
Wisps of a red sunset still drifted about the west, and the trunks of the trees were barred in black against a yellow afterglow.
It rolled in great drifts, rose, broke into little wisps of smoke, and half lost itself in yellow light.
When morning dawned through wisps of rain, the long night of taxing and intolerable work showed plainly in the doctor.
Her few wisps of white hair streaming in disarray from under her flat worsted cap, she went by, sobbing quietly, as if utterly oblivious of his presence.
A window, or rather a hole in the wall, may be rudely shuttered by a stick run through loops made out of wisps of grass.
Presently out from the doors by which our conductors had entered there came tumbling a crowd of men and women, some carrying straw bolsters and wisps of hay, others bearing cooking utensils, and all in various dishabille.
It was a world with a different quality, a warmer, more penetrating and mellower light, with a faint clear gladness in its air, and wisps of sun-touched cloud in the blueness of its sky.
The novel curled and cracked in the scorching flame, but the filmy lace vanished like cobwebs, and the gloves crackled and shrank into mere wisps of black leather.
Some stray wisps of grass showed that he had been camping out all the hot day on the green turf under the shadow of the trees, and it was easy to see from his appearance what a vagrant he was.
Miss Townshead's cheeks were crimson, her skirt was rent, and, though she had evidently found opportunity to effect some alteration, loose wisps of hair still hung about her shoulders.
There was a sawmill beside the river, for he could faintly hear a strident scream and see the blue smoke drifting in gauzy wisps across the hill.
Dark pines rolled up the hillsides that shut it in, and wisps of grey vapour drifted about them.
Up there the frost was biting, and the snow lay fine as flour, blowing in thin wisps from under the horse's hoofs, while the men's jean and deerhide were sprinkled with glittering particles.
Observe whether the image with a high power is clear, sharp, and free from irregular wisps of stray light.
Unfortunately for those who expect only brilliant revelations when they look through a telescope, this throng of nebulæ consists of small and inconspicuous wisps as ill defined as bits of thistle-down floating high in the air.
They saw that it was quite useless to question him about the matches and the wisps of straw or about why the sounds had meant anything to him.
Several burned matches lay near him and wisps and little masses of woven straw littered the miniature aerial platform.
There were a few wisps of straw to give color to Pee-wee's ingenious theory.
Under a gaudily-laced, three-cornered hat his hair hung dishevelled and unkempt, like wispsof straw.
The fellow sat up blinking stupidly and dragging odd wisps of straw from his grey hair.
I wouldn't be coming back after dark when the will-o'-the-wisps is out.
He says it may have been one of the will-o'-the-wisps that shot and broke his finger.
She ran on toward the nearer rim of the valley, scattering burning wisps of grass as she went, her heart beating wildly, seeming ready to burst through her side.
The girl snatched a handful of the burning grass and ran with it; a little further forward, then to the side, scattering burning wisps as she went.
She had got a few of the wildest blownwisps of brown hair back where they belonged before the door opened.
A half-moon shone out low down beneath wisps of whirling cloud, and the big black seas shook their frothing crests high aloft against the silvery light as they swept in long succession out of the night.
It was a dainty figure in spite of the big cape that fluttered about it; while the loose wisps of hair that blew out from under the little cap in no way detracted from the piquancy of the half-seen face and head.
He had something else to think of, and the swift upward lurches and wisps of spray that blew about the "Ventura" made conversation difficult.
The mangroves lay behind him, a dusky blur streaked with a thick white steam which trailed out in long wisps across the sea that heaved blackly beneath the boat.
It was very still now, a narrow gap between the white walls that were ridged with shattered green lattices, but filmy wisps of vapor still drifted out of the doorways.
The night was pleasantly warm, and the murmur of the river which slid in and out of the mistwisps in the hollow beneath the white road rose faintly musical out of the silence.
Appleby felt the rifle butt jar on his shoulder and the barrel jump in his hand, but saw nothing for a moment beyond wisps of drifting smoke.
They stopped for the last time within sight of the white-walled town, which lay dark and silent girdled by thin wisps of mist, and the Captain Maccario spoke to those who could hear him.
Marthy lifted her hand and made a futile effort to tuck in a few of the longest wisps of hair.
Her uncombed hair hung in wisps about her head; her hard old face was lined and gray, her hard eyes dull with brooding.
She had got used now to the feel of the great sheaves in her arms, and the binding wisps drawn through her hand till she held them level, below the ears, ready for the twist.
No greater air of prosperity clung about him than is conveyed by a rusty overcoat and wisps of cloth in place of socks.
The smoke of cottages rose straight; wisps of mist were wandering about the valley, and the songs of birds dropping like blessings.
The huge courtyard of the Rostovs' house was littered with wisps of hay and with dung from the horses, and not a soul was to be seen there.
A snake-like flotilla of Destroyers slid in under the lee of the land and joined the parent ship; wisps of smoke east and west heralded the arrival of far-flung scouts.
Her red, untidy hair was usually screwed into wisps of last night's 'Football Herald.
With the two men wisps of fog drifted into the room.
But the east had grown red and burned a glorious arch of cool brightness, with all its cloud edges teased loosely into fretted wisps and flakes of changeful fire.
The sky, which had hitherto been of favourable aspect, save for the green light in the north as they rowed across the waters of the Haff, was now overflowed by thin wisps of cloud tacking up against the wind.
His lynx eyes peered up from under lanky wisps of hair, and his voice had the proprietary note of one making "a corner" in his news.
Then the man with the underlip and the three plastered wisps of hair said: "Don't know why we withdrew, Mr. Foreman!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wisps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
