...She was a slight wisp of a girl, a child, no more...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...The bestcover, he maintained, was not in cloud or a wisp of fog, but in the unseeingpatch in the eye of your enemy...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Then, looking up, two merry wisp lights came dancing...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...I observed that in the night the Moors kept regular watch, andfrequently looked into the hut to see if I was asleep; and if itwas quite dark, they would light a wisp of grass...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
..."Niggers and dagoes," said the king of Yonder Kingdom, glancingcarelessly backward and lighting in his lips a carefully rolled wisp offragrant tobacco...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...In thepopular Piedmontese, Bergamasc, and Venetian songof the pilgrim who comes from Rome, the pilgrim isseparated from the woman only by a wisp of straw...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...In one instant, Lad had widened his narrow andhard-established circle of Loved Ones, to includethis half-dead wisp of humanity...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...With a wisp of straw, sprinkle a thinlayer of straw with brine, then another layer of straw, and anothersprinkling, and so on...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Lad; hisdainty gold-and-white mate, Lady; and their fluffy and fiery wisp of ason, little Wolf...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
..."It's horrible to thinkof such a helpless wisp of a baby being beaten and made to work, dayand night...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...Not a stick or a wisp of hay or afeather to mark the place! And as she sat there quietly, a queer thinghappened...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...There are days of perfect calm andhours of stillness as of sleep, when thelightest wisp of cloud fleece hangs movelessagainst the sky and the pine-treesforget their song...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...Wrap the squeezed excelsior where it protrudesfrom between thumb and forefinger ofleft hand, drawing cord tight at each round,paying out the wisp until all is wrapped hard(see )...
Leon Luther Pray 「Taxidermy」
...Every one triesto get a wisp of the straw of which the effigy was made, becausesuch a wisp, placed in the manger, is believed to make the cattlethrive...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Thefluid was applied by means of a wisp of straw, and the person whodischarged this salutary office went round the house in thedirection of the sun...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The wife sweeps out the house with a wisp of grass and sheor her husband makes a fire on the floor directly under the smoke hole...
Cosmos Mindeleff 「Navaho Houses, pages 469-518」
...He swept one arm about the soft, yielding body beneath its wisp ofgarment, and he swung her behind him as he set himself to meet theattack...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...A thin wisp of smoke wascurling from the barrel...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...He was a wisp of a man whose smooth shaven face was apple-red...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...The priests clustered together ina scared group, staring fearfully at the right eye of the idol, fromwhich a wisp of smoke was still trailing...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...Then take the famous Andromeda Nebula (see Frontispiece), which is so vast that notwithstanding its immense distance even the naked eye perceives it as an enigmatical wisp in the sky...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
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