A man pranced in a shroud of will-o'-the-wisp fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spike]
But no, it was only the light of the will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference
No. The snark had a flavor like that of will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
A "will-o'-the-wisp" which eludes us even when we grasp it. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Baird Archer is still nothing but a name, a will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [Murder By The Book]
You must have been the will-o'-the-wisp with the dark lantern. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
Could they be the will-o'-the-wisp that Peter had told her about?. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Child, that's the will-o'-the-wisp I've been chasing all this day. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
Its infrared glow was like a will-o'-the-wisp gliding across the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
There it was, dancing like a will-o'-the-wisp before my dazzled vision. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Like a flickering, trembling will-o'-the-wisp to a steady beacon grown. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference
He stood it up on his desk and studied the spirited will-o'-the-wisp face!. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
Sylph dancing from spot to spot like the will-o'-the-wisp of her native bog. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
They are lighted on their toilsome ascent of the Blocksberg by a will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
In this fashion the former sphere danced through the pass like a will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts of Gol]
Then he saw an end to the journey, for the will-o'-the-wisp candlestick came to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
Russians, answering to our will-o'-the-wisp, they are the souls of still-born children. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
DVDs lend movies substance, rather than reducing them to will-o'-the-wisp data streams. From Wordnik.com. [Xmas With Extras] Reference
The possibility that he might be following a will-o'-the-wisp infuriated the Cimmerian. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warrior]
He has given us a will-o'-the-wisp, and we boastfully proclaim it to be "the morning star.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The last moment's halt had enabled him to escape, to fade from view like a will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
"Sure, an 'we did that same afther Mister Haldane's will-o'-the-wisp for three hours, bedad!". From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
But I did not wish to chase after some will-o'-the-wisp and spend my night beating the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Blood of Amber]
Back and forth, up and down, here and there, like following some will-o'-the-wisp went the boys. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
There was some kind of will-o'-the-wisp, not the slightest trace of destruction in the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts of Gol]
And the Cavour Hyperdrive was the merest will-o'-the-wisp, dancing wildly before him in his dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Material things can make for contentment, but ah! how uncertain is that will-o'-the-wisp happiness. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
It resembled the one they had directed here; it must have lost sight of its guiding will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
How I met him in the wilderness, and he saved Xanth from the wiggle swarm with his will-o'-the-wisp magic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Now shall we shortly see you thrown, or run away with, or led by some will-o'-the-wisp into a bottomless slough. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Instead of going into the woods, where Mollie had pursued her will-o'-the-wisp, he turned in the opposite direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
Dr. Syntax, go off in search of the picturesque, and wander about at their own sweet desire like a will-o'-the-wisp. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
Love, said reason, was unstable, flitting; woman, a will-o'-the-wisp; but a castle -- its noble solidity would endure. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He's a dispassionate machine, not a fallible, emotionally disturbed human misled by the will-o'-the-wisp of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Claire put herself bodily between Dean and the door as he tried to follow the will-o'-the-wisp dancing up and down the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
The sleeping form of Faust is borne aloft, the Mannikin leading the way like a will-o'-the-wisp, gleaming within his glass retort. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
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