will o the wisp|will o' the wisp in English

noun

something delusive or misleading; ignis fatuus, phosphorous light which hovers over the ground in marshy areas

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1. A will-o'-the-wisp caught Bink's nervous eye.

2. It burns as a will - o'- the - wisp , dancing onward to fairylands of delight.

3. With only a few hundred dollars on hand, travelling around the world is a will-o'-the-wisp.

4. At some not too distant day, history surely will account him a will-o'-the-wisp, and file him away accordingly.

5. Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority.

6. One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child.

7. One wisp of smoke will not yearn for another.

8. An on all sides one utter darkness of grave, occasionally have what time the will-o'-the-wisp flash across, and the all directionses all have the breeze of.

9. Two Will O'the Wisp are summoned to help their summoner in battle.

10. Ayesha Ignis Fatūs (アーシャ=イグニファトゥス, Ayesha Ignis Fatuus) is a spirit of the earth who controls natural gas, and one of the few known members of the Will-O-Wisp community

11. You shouldn't hope to find perfect happiness it's just a will - o'the - wisp.

12. The Wisp spell increases movement speed of the party.

13. Look for a factory chimney cloud - or a wisp of smoke curling across the sky; that will be brent geese.

14. Next comes a snap of a wisp of hair.

15. A wisp of hair straggled across her ear.

16. A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.

17. All we have left is paroxysm, and when it subsides, there will be just one wisp of smoke . . . our inner fire will ravish all.

18. She brushed aside a stray wisp of hair.

19. A thin wisp of smoke straggled up through the trees.

20. She smoothed away a wisp of hair from her eyes.

21. But the will-o'- the-wisps, they...

22. Explore a tranquility, look for one wisp of sunlight!

23. In the distance, a wisp of smoke rose from burning stubble.

24. And broken chariot-wheels: so thick Bestrown, Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change.” For another example, see Milton’s comparison of Satan’s excitement (at deceiving Eve) to the “will o’ the wisp” (IX.633-642)

25. 10 A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.