... Not until four o'clock, when the sun was rising to dispel the last wisps of mist over that stricken field of battle, did he awaken from his tranquil slumbers...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...In that great silence they looked at this slim young man, hatless, long wisps of his black hair fluttering in the breeze, his neckcloth in disorder, his face white, his eyes on fire...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The nest is generallycomposed of a few wisps of sea-weed or grass, or the two or three eggsare not infrequently laid in a slight hollow in the sand or among theshells and pebbles...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...When the animal has fallen, apply cold water or ice to the head; rub the bodyand limbs with cloths or wisps of straw and continue the rubbing for aconsiderable time...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...A few wisps of red hair adorn his temples; the top of his head shines like an old ivory ball...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Next draw some wisps of fine, long-fiber cottonthrough the melted wax and lay themquickly flat upon oiled paper to cool...
Leon Luther Pray 「Taxidermy」
...The night had been windless, and now, in thefirst of the coming light, the water was smooth like blue-black oilunder innumerable writhing wisps and streamers of mist...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...In others the boys light torches and wisps of straw atthe bonfires and rush about brandishing them in their hands...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...But there is, I think, an underlying similarity of superstitious ideas involved by the two purposes forwhich the wisps are used...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...In others the boys light torches and wisps ofstraw at the bonfires and rush about brandishing them in theirhands...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...There were likewise many wisps of yucca fiber tied inknots which must probably be regarded as of identical origin...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...A great sphereof shimmering azure fire! Wisps of pale, sparkling bluish mist ringedit...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Tenuous wisps, evanescent, wraithlike...
Nat Schachner 「Slaves of Mercury」
...Feathered wisps oftell-tale vapor whisked through it at blurring speed...
Arthur Leo Zagat 「The Great Dome on Mercury」
...There was the shaft of white light; the operating table, full under it; the anesthetic cylinder, the banks of instruments, the sterilizers with their wisps of steam curling ceaselessly up...
Anthony Gilmore 「The Affair of the Brains」
...Running in all directions across the relatively open spaces are nebulous wisps and streaks of the most curious forms...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
... wisps of frowsy red hairstanding out round her head...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
...They have been shut up by wisps of straw,ever since the house was built...
G. A. Henty 「A Final Reckoning」
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