How To Use Wisp In A Sentence
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There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground.
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Tom! "he called," yo 'take the gen'leman's horse to the stable, rub him down with a wisp, an' give him some hay.
The Boy With the U.S. Census
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The following year police raided an exhibition of Lawrence's paintings and seized every canvas on which they could descry any wisp of pubic hair.
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Grace was crouched in front of a small wisp of a girl.
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Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated.
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Appearance: bubblier than Perkuno's Hammer; a deep mahogany with substantial, but wispy tan head
Archive 2008-02-01
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He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
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She was a wisp of a woman, barely taller than my shoulders, with silvery hair and deep blue eyes.
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Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
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On Jan. 12-13, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researcher and 11 other scientists will meet at the National AeroSpace Training and Research Center near Philadelphia, where they'll learn to work and conduct experiments in the wispy upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere known as suborbital space.
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Her hair she wore in a lace snood that let a few stray wisps of curly blonde hair fall into her face.
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The captain paced restlessly up and down, pausing occasionally to survey the vagrant smoke wisps and to trace them back to the portions of the deck from which they sprang.
THE SEED OF McCOY
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Suddenly, up got such a wisp of snipe, under my very feet, that I am bound to say I missed both barrels
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He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure.
BLACK EAGLES
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The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it.
Kenilworth
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I leaned on the gate and saw the great wisps of clouds in the sky like comets' tails.
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Edouard Collin is a tall wisp of a French teenager, all well-tanned Parisian sinew with a sharp-angled, warmly expressive face born to be placed in front of a camera.
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Ruffs and britches disappeared long ago, and there isn't much to distinguish a Balinese from a Siamese today except a wispy fringe on the underbelly and a meek plume of a tail.
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We woke to a calm and crisp morning with a light frost on our sleeping bags, below a beautiful blue sky with wisps of cloud streaking above the lake, which lay as a blue sea below us.
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Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06: 41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent ......
Cramer - French Word-A-Day
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He was tall and lanky, with wisps of blond hair sticking out from under his cap.
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The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
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The wisp of a girl would pass the final set of tests.
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However, high, wispy cirrus clouds, that can have relatively large droplets, do not reflect solar light very effectively, but will almost completely reflect longwave infrared radiation.
Aerosols
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Her wispy gray hair was loose, hanging down her back like cobwebs, and her hands were folded in her lap.
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The seats in each row are only about four centimeters higher than the seats in front of them, so that my experience of M. Ward's performance is profoundly hampered by the wispy, frizzled locks of the enormous, grotesque head in front of me.
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The short wispy grass stipa looks great all year round and is useful for adding neat informality.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wears a sleeveless patterned overall over her clothes at all times, which I think Vitriolica would refer to as a bata; a headscarf is knotted around her wispy grey hair.
Swallow
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Zest half the peel of the orange into thin, wispy strips and put to one side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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The wispy green or bronze foliage of fennel will add a nice contrast to my other potpourri plants.
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If you are as small as a microbe, even the wispiest beard is like a giant rainforest.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it wisped away once more and her concentration dissolved like sugar in hot tea.
Black Dust Mambo
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Her hooded cloak hid her features but wisps of chestnut hair could be seen.
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More crucially, the rough lining the fairways is significantly shorter and wispier this year – a vast improvement for which mother nature, and not gentlemen of the governing body, can take credit.
The Open 2011: Phil Mickelson hails revamped Royal St George's
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A skinny wisp of a young woman entered the room, timidly opening the door to the side to allow her entrance.
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He's so thin and wispy it looks like if I touched him he'd break like a china doll.
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With a flat band of silver olive leaves about her brow, and the soft hair waving out below, nothing more was necessary for a costume save a brief drapery of silver spangled cloth with a strap of jewels and a wisp of black malines for a scarf.
The City of Fire
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A blue wisp of cigarette smoke curled in the air.
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He wore a thin metal belt on his head that allowed wisps of his blond hair to part in the middle.
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scentless wisps of straw
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Richie Collins was twenty, with short curly hair, a wispy chin beard, and long beanpole legs.
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Bees are fooled into pollinating the bee orchid and the wispy, twisting petals of the rare lizard orchid closely resemble lizards.
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Dreams came to me, like wisps of fog in the night sky.
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Wisps of her fringe had escaped the loose ponytail and were now curling around her oval face.
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She's just a young wisp of a girl, and very sensitive to boot: Scold her in the slightest, and she dissolves into hysterics.
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Wisps of gray hair adorn his bald head, and his voice is colored by raspiness.
A Calling Higher Than Journalism:
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Before dropping off underneath a wispy mosquito net, my last thought is: who knows what creatures stalk this place?
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The glob was the same greasy white as the woman's flesh, but covered with silky brown wisps.
Break No Bones
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A wisp of hair had settled in a crescent along her cheek, the bottom point lingering near the corner of her mouth.
DO NO HARM
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With the main business completed, he asked me if I wanted him to take care of the short hairs, and assuming he was referring to the wispy ones on the back of the neck, said yes.
The Guardian World News
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Wisps of light purple steam rise from the heated water contained in stylish vessels around the Aromatherapy Health Resort inside the City Hotel.
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I encountered layers of airborne mist and fog on the Taunton road, quite thick in the hollows but mostly wisping across at about head height, caught in the headlights and looking like wraiths and ghosties in the night.
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A faint trace of wood smoke wisps through the air.
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It was thick and you could see, by the porch lights, wispy tendrils insinuating themselves around plants and patio furniture.
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The weather was dry and cold; wisps of steam puffed from their lips.
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Her brown hair peeked in wisps from under her mob cap, and when she saw me, she smiled.
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Her long, thin, mouse brown hair flowed down her back, wispy strands sticking out at odd angles.
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First there was a sizzle, and then, when the batter had succumbed to the intense heat from the gas flame below, only a few intermittent whistles escaped along with wisps of fragrant vapor.
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I photographed them against a backdrop of distant volcanoes using a yellow filter to accentuate the wispy white clouds above.
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A small fire crackled in the fireplace, thin wisps of smoke curling up the sturdy brick chimney.
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Wisps of white, thinning hair stood up around the electronic appendage in an adorable old guy cowlick.
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She was a scatty woman with flyaway wisps of carroty hair.
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All there were were tiny wisps of clouds now and the whole area had blued out.
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Now when this terrible dizain was completed the lord of the seven madnesses laid fire to a wisp of straw, and he cast it to the winds, saying that thus should the anger of Miramon Lluagor pass over the land.
Figures of Earth
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Wisps of steam spiralled balletically in the broken shards of sunlight, Tam watching their graceful dance for a suspended moment while somewhere in his head he knew he was about to switch on again, stretch mind and body against the rack of their predicament.
Country of the Blind
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The smokes on the Cotinus are showing as buds, we will have those wispy dark red bits soon, I just love those.
Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
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A wisp of hair had escaped from under her hat.
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Her red hair was pulled backward into a bun, and two thin wisps of hair dangled near her eyes.
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It was beautiful dress that reached to my knees with flowing wisps of silk and chiffon.
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Standing quickly, the nurse steadied the wisp of a girl with a strong hand.
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Her skin hung loose on her tremendous body, and her hair wisped around her scalp like thin smoke.
The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber
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Her hair was tangled and disordered, forming wispy curls towards the front.
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She suggests the goggles' straps with abbreviated wisps of graphite that twist and whip about the page.
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A wisp of grey hair stuck out from under her hat.
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We all had faces covered in wispy bumfluff.
The Sun
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All their core sounds are here - wispy synthesizer melodies and bleeps and blips.
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A wispy, frothy grass, stipa tenuissima is used as a universal antidote to spiky plants such as yuccas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Together with those remote wisps of shiningness out there in that gulf of blackness, it made up the world in which he had his existence.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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The wooden bins, wisp-floored and empty of mice, will soon be heaped high by the strong arms of laughing young men boasting of the height of their sheafs, the speed of their reaping, and the goodness of their grains.
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That is to say, a facsimile, a carbon copy, a wisp of a ghost of a shadow of a bagel.
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In the distance, a wisp of smoke rose from burning stubble.
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The wind rushed through the holes in the booth, prickling my skin like wisps of memories flooding my quivering brain.
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It would tell her how to place the crablike feet for safety and speed, how to search recesses of the barren land for little wisps of sustenance or water.
Songs of Love & Death
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Neither straight comedy nor thoroughgoing drama, it's a dreamy, wistful mood piece with only the wisp of a plot.
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My grandma, after whom I am named, was said to be a cheerfully energetic thin wisp of a woman.
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In his desire to make himself utterly irrecognizable as the seafaring man who had carried the tidings of the murder to Mellish Park, the captain had tortured himself by substituting a tight circular collar and a wisp of purple ribbon for the honest half-yard of snowy linen which it had been his habit to wear turned over the loose collar of his blue coat.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel
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I saw green, undulating hills adorned with bamboo wisps, deep valleys, and limestone caves.
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Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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So to soften my face a bit, I discovered that I can dampen the wisps at my temples and get pin curls, no curling iron required.
Archive 2009-01-01
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“Eternal rest grant unto him, O bon Dieu,” she whispered, but the rest of the prayer wisped away like smoke beneath a ceiling fan, the words beyond her recall.
Black Dust Mambo
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Growth also included the sustained benefit of innovation from countline products (i.e. our single-serve products excluding moulded chocolate, for example Wispa) launched in the last nine months of
Food IngredientsFIrst News
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Also: une mèche folle = a stray lock/wisp of hair une mèche rebelle = a wayward lock of hair une mèche lente = a safety fuse une mèche postiche = a hairpiece, toupee
Enfants
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Purple smokelike wisps hung in front of more distant clouds, separated by bands of blue.
Plain Language
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Wispy-bearded men prayed before the mihrab, an extravagance of inlaid, multicoloured stone.
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Her softly rounded face looked absurdly childlike under the tall-crowned hennin, from which a wispy veil floated behind her as she moved.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
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Wispy cirrus clouds are the only ones that form naturally at the high altitudes where jets cruise.
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Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.
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Unseen in the wild night, the occasional wisp of smoke drifted among the trunks.
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Bordman found himself straining his eyes for the merest, scrubbiest of bushes and for however stunted and isolated a wisp of grass.
Sand Doom
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Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray.
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The cafes at either end of the street are sparsely populated, and the aproned man grilling wurst for the restaurant looks bored, lonely and cold, wisps of smoke wreathing lazily about his head.
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Small but perfectly formed, that wispy timbre turns out to be perfectly suited to bossa nova classics and jazz standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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My fingers know what they must do, and I can spin the silk wisps into a fine shining strand on the crystal spindle and wind it onto the bobbins without even having to think about it.
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Abillowy frock of mauve and pink tulle, with a tiny jewelled bodice, is completedby a tinted wig in the same primula shade, while glittering bracelets, caught withwisps of tulle, show up the fairylike wrists manipulating a great fan of snow-whiteplumes.
Archive 2009-05-01
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It was a smart move: as the woman who made her name with wispy chiffon dresses, it made sense to deliver the garments at which she excels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even her hair is wispy and desiccated, a spiderish black, standing out from her head as if electrified.
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I see him through the glass recline across the backseat, stalky in his blue underwear, wispy and pale as the sky.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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For a few seconds, a soft white wisp so brilliant that it hurt to look at shimmered in that spot, then slowly took the form of a large unicorn with a silver horn so bright that seemed to glow.
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New York, might have been seen a wisp of a girl "cheeking" a manager into giving her a situation on the strength of her being Irish.
The Lion's Mouse
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Rough stubbles of wispy hair were developing on his dimpled chin and his rough curling sandy brown hair was unkempt and tousled wildly.
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Her hair was up in a French twist with a few wisps of hair framing her face.
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This is a big time saver as far as training peasants, peons, wisps, and acolytes, which serve as the gatherers of lumber and gold and also provide the muscle to construct your base structures.
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Zl's golden coma had three "onionskin" hoods, the enormous curved dust tail was silver, and the rippling ion tail shone blue with red wisps.
Perseus Spur
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As the aircraft continues to teeter absurdly on the edge of the sky, little pain-flavoured wisps of memories will start to taunt him.
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Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys.
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Ring the neck of a bottle with a wisp of grosgrain ribbon.
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A wisp of hair had escaped from under her hat.
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The claque of vegetarians at the table enjoyed a dish of sweetly tangy braised endives with chestnut purée, but a wispy open ravioli with chanterelles tasted mostly of sweet corn and bubbles.
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They consist of complex cross-bedded sands commonly enclosing thin wisps of muddy sediment.
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“Niggers and dagoes,” said the king of Yonder Kingdom, glancing carelessly backward and lighting in his lips a carefully rolled wisp of fragrant tobacco.
DARKWATER
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Can you suggest any tying material that would replicate this wispy, bouyant seed?
The Answer Line is Open...
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The fires are dying; other figures are spotted, hard to distinguish amongst the wisps of vapour that drift across the scene.
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I presume one of the reasons he left was that they wouldn't let him wear the wispy beard and skinny green jeans he clearly prefers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This week's news is like watching someone with a termina disease who's been managing to cover it up, compensate, bring the belt in a little tighter or something, and all of a sudden it's progressed too far to keep it hidden, and you look at the wan face and thinning waist and wispier voice and suddenly realize the end is really coming.
Print Media
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When you are half way up Kilimanjaro and your lungs are close to bursting as you seek to drag in even a wisp of the thin air, you are willing to seek anywhere for help and succour and appeals to god are not uncommon.
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Briskly quartered tomatoes lay on the chopping board next to a sprig of spring onions with wispy, soiled roots and fresh green stalks, bound by a blue elastic band.
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Wisps of straw protrude from the creature's sleeves and the collar of its tattered shirt.
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Tiny wisps of ash floated up.
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Then, like magpies, they hurry back to their workshop loaded with wisps of lace and coils of steel mesh, strands of silk and ropes of jute.
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A wisp of a reasoned argument escaped the net that I cast far and wide.
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For example, the wispy foliage of cosmos will engulf spiky salvia flowers and is a contrast to the rounded leaves of pelargoniums.
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It's embedded with berries and served with a wispy spoonful of semifreddo.
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More like a circular cloud of dense, black vapor it seemed, with whorls of mist escaping in tentacular wisps, than a literal devilfish.
Conan Of The Isles
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Ichiro's wispy physique is uncommon in baseball today.
USATODAY.com - Ichiro the best leadoff hitter in the game
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When ther'd getten abaght a hauf a duzzen on em Jim slipped aght an 'sammed up all he could find i'th' shape o 'buckets an' had em filled wi watter an 'not o' th 'cleanest sooart, -- then he lit a wisp o' strea just aghtside o'th 'pighoil door an' waited wall th 'smook had begun to curl nicely up: -- then he darted into th' haase an 'bawled aght "Heigh lads! do come, -- somdy's set th' pighoil o 'fire.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
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At all events they carried a passport to indifference in the fact that they all wanted something, and it was clear to the meanest intelligence that they appeared to be more magnificent than they were, visions in dazzling complexions and long kid gloves, rattling up in third-class ticca-gharries, with a wisp of fodder clinging to their skirts.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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The last wisps of her dream were still fresh in her mind, as if she was still experiencing them now.
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The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.
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There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much.
Conan The Unconquered
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Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access.
ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest
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By the window where he had been standing a thin wisp of mist drifted across the floor.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Her room had been the smallest and meanest in the old cenoby on Silver Street, with a ceiling that dripped at every shower; yet it had not been too small or too mean for a window past whose threadbare drape wisps of light crept on even the darkest nights.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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‘I don't know, Rifka,’ I whispered, hugging the little blond wisp of a child close to me.
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a mere wisp of a girl
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You shouldn't hope to find perfect happiness it's just a will - o'the - wisp.
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When lit, the cloth can be made to dance like a will-o'-the-wisp in the dark - a stunt that would definitely not amuse a modern fire marshal.
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To get the actor's piecey wisps, use a flat iron and light pomade to shape and prevent flyaways.
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In her tiny showing, her rose paintings seem as wispy as the aquarelles of some cooing Edwardian maiden lady celebrating the beauties of copse and dell.
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Their lives are thrown into a spin by their esteemed relative's presence, but this tale ends quietly in a little wisp of smoke, an exquisite reminder of the evanescence of things.
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Her soft, wispy fair hair had been pulled into a loose bun at the back of her head and tied with a black ribbon.
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Nosing through the wispy clouds, I had serious misgivings about the tiny dot of an island, with a silhouette resembling a well-chewed apple core.
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We unexpectedly flushed a wisp of snipe.
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I looked out the open door and saw the thin wisps of gas just floating around in mid-air.
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The wispy guitar line is taken by the bass; Bridget adds many slurred notes into each run, transforming it from rickety to propulsive.
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And similarly of his friend, Mrs. Taylor, "She was a will-o'-the - wispish iridescence of a creature; meaning nothing bad either"; and again of Mill himself, "His talk is sawdustish, like ale when there is no wine to be had.
Thomas Carlyle
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They showed up on the runways in all ways, shapes and forms, from chunky plaits and blunt cuts to layered styles with wispy ends and long braided ponytails.
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Monday morning arrived with a cooling breeze, scattering fragile wisps of cloud across a hazy sky.
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The air became cool with a slight breeze that whispered and moved her cloak, sending wisps of dark hair across her face as they rode.
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And then the tangle of blond hair, which wisped across white lips, one open eye and skin like skim milk shining through the mud, reflecting back the blue and red strobe from the cop cars.
So Much Pretty
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Lloyd recalled the forlorn little woman in a wispy crêpe veil, who had enlisted her sympathy to such an extent one Thanksgiving Day that she and Betty had walked over to Rollington from the Seminary to carry the greater part of the turkey and fruit that had been sent them in their box of Thanksgiving goodies.
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation
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Outside it is cold, and thin wisps of fog are unwinding along the damp length of Baker Street.
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The breeze blowing through it would catch the wisps and send them dancing in the air, while the great generous streams of golden grain flowing from the machine seemed like rivers of moulten metal.
With Those Who Wait
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Tiny wisps of ash floated up.
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Visuals are beautifully drawn with space's star-studded velvet sprinkled with red and blue phospherence, nebular wisps and the occasional comet.
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Pores, brick textures, smoke wisps, clouds all were rendered in sharp detail.
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But for this year's autumn collection, Donna Karan says she chose to show layered ensembles featuring several pieces in gauzy, flowing fabrics such as a "wisp dress" made of silk chiffon jersey and "bathrobe" dresses.
Runway Report
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Explore a tranquility, look for one wisp of sunlight!
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It was hilarious to see how hard the boy was trying to intimidate a small wisp of a girl and failing miserably.
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A wisp of blond hair hung under his receding chin and an egg-shaped raspberry mole dotted his left cheek.
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Turning, she saw the voice's owner, a thin wisp of a man in strange white clothing.
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To human eyes, he resembled a dark cloud, a pool of black ink diffusing into thin wisps around the edges that could manage to remain vaguely anthropomorphous.
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Friday, March 27, 2009 at 06:41 PM how odd to read this particular bit of news as i enjoy one of the only still-functioning electrical devices in my home (the computer), the others suffering from a mysterious anti-surge, in which switches produce only intermittent and then very weak current. nothing is 'crame' but the fridge has no cold, the water-heater no heat, the lamps flicker like candles guttering out their last wisp of light, etc. the electrician will be coming tomorrow; meanwhile one is very conscious of being (but not wishing to be) very spoiled and electrodependent......
Cramer - French Word-A-Day
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ai fot mebbe yew wuz nawt happitail wit me 4 sum reason……… mebbe we is jus online at diffrunt times…… *wispurrrr…… ai miss yew*
Well would you look at that. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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She strained ever harder, blocking out all distractions, chasing a will-o'-the-wisp through uncharted paths in her own mind.
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The most mind-boggling thing about Brüno is although he's founded on the basest gay stereotype possible (the swishy wisp of a man who craves fashion, fame and sex), he gives everyone he encounters reasons to hate him way beyond his gayness.
Fourfour:
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If a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once.
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Jacko shouted for help -- to the brass directing traffic, to the washwoman kneeling on marble steps, to the costermonger polishing her apples -- but his shouts wisped in the wind and were lost.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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You think, why doesn't my long, honeyed hair curl elegantly, never frizz and, on command, wisp like that of a character in a fairy tale?
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Aquaman is talented but also wispish, fragile and ethereal.
Soccer Blogs - latest posts
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Keep any wispy fronds to one side.
Times, Sunday Times
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He carved a slice of baked ham for a wispy, black child with large hungry eyes.
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His stovepipe had been suspended from a hook on the wall; only a few greying wisps of hair straggled over his desert-like scalp.
ANTI-ICE
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Her dark, golden-brown hair is piled atop her head in a modest coiffure, with only wisps surrounding her porcelain face.
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Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys.
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Benton crouches before the hearth and lights a match, and wisps of smoke curl up from fatwood kindling.
Predator
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_The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled tramsiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the-wisps and danger signals.
Ulysses
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• Leek—certainly wispier than any I am used to buying, but pungent and flavorful all the same.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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And yet if a writer succeeds in catching the will-o'-the-wisp she will go on existing, elusive and transformed, in the character she has created.
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The whole room was wisped with smoke.
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A momentary romance, that quick magic, the wisp of a mystery, the deluge of life-giving water - this is the stuff of the monsoon.
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wisps of hair
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A will-o'-the-wispish set of tortured facts, emotions, and flimsy philosophies, the arguments are super-charged with pure poppycock.
Growing Pains
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Instead he was dressed in a dark suit and sported a wispy beard.
The Sun
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From a plant structure perspective, sativa grows long and lanky, with thin, wispy leaves.
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What hair remained was wispy and of no particular colour, clinging to a speckled head.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw it now, a dull orange will-o'-the-wisp bobbing and winking through the trees.
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The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense - it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds.
