wispy

• “They remain wispy, uncertain figures in a novel that inevitably leads us to seek more definition, more certainty.”

  Point of View in Fiction

• “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

• “My heart bangs against my rib cage, my mouth goes dirt dry, and my breath comes in short, wispy gasps.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gladiator

• “Restaurant regulars have been identified as wispy-eyed figures who live just around the block, but these indolent customers cannot be said to have truly traveled.”

  Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits

• “The river had deposited me under a willow tree laden with some kind of wispy moss.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fatal Circle

• “She was of the kind that Alison thought of as "wispy" 'soft, blond hair going to gray, styled in a fashionable chignon, soft, gray-blue linen walking suit, slight figure, doll-pretty face with soft blue eyes.”

  Phoenix And Ashes

• “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

• “She looked to Angie for confirmation, and Angie smiled, if such you could call the wispy line on Angie’s now translucent face.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Welkening

• “The first time 'wispy' and Clint Eastwood have ever been used in the same sentence.”

  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “Cursive maybe but not the kind of wispy cursive that implies I'm "a ditz that just wanted a random sexy tattoo and this fit the bill".”

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