wisp

• One of my ambitions has always been to see a Will-o'-the-wisp, and I am still hoping; but that hot summer, had I known it at the time, they were quite common within an easy walk of my house in the New Forest. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• The creature that emerged resembled ball lightning or a swamp-gas will-o-the-wisp, a sparky, fuzzy roil of energy -- except that it appeared to possess infinite depths filled with churning hazy images. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
• The will-o'-the wisp was still present, hovering not quite close enough to overtake. —  The Source of Magic
• It looked as tenuous and informidable as a will o' the wisp, and yet Torrence, acting for Pakoh, was busily answering phone calls from all parts of the vessel. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
• As the last beaver passed, the caravan overturned, blocking the bridge The colonel knew the will-o'-the-wisp was his comrade-in-arms Von Ratte, running naked toward the distant grove of pine to draw the beaver after him As the herd disappeared up the road, De Filbert waved his saber at the rats, inviting death. —  EQMM,January2007

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