wisplike

“Tall, wisplike, with the kind of angelic beauty that makes even the most hard-core hip-hop fan hear harps when she walks past in the corridor.”

Simon & Schuster: The Redleys

“But in New Iberia the air was dead, superheated, stained with the smell of dead water beetles, the trees traced with the wisplike patterns of fireflies.”

Simon & Schuster: Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set

“In the air where he had stood was the faint smoke-thin outline of a man, limned in the most wisplike of golden fogs.”

Starchild Omnibus

“A tangled black beard hung wisplike from the dirty _chuddah_ that draped his head, and above it two eyes, fevered and furtive, peered strangely forth.”

The Lamp in the Desert

“He laughed high-keyed, sardonic laughter; he scolded, he quavered, he pleaded, he was finally choked with sobs; while as for his wife, she, poor little wisplike body, early succumbed to whatever is Venetian for nervous prostration.”

My Friend the Chauffeur

“AAA towing A successful compounding of flavors and colors: wisplike slices of carrots, sweetish grapes, naive onion spicy Ushneiclunim Neimohim of goat cheeseflower.”

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