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Meanings of will o' the wisp in English
Atmospheric ghost lights.
Synonyms
Examples for "foxfire"
Examples for "foxfire"
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Looked like he had a piece of the rainbow on him, or foxfire.
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A hundred pale lights danced toward us through the trees, faint as foxfire.
3
They were foxfire glow and lightning-bug tail, the lights of the plants themselves.
4
He guesses everything of the kind except lightning-bugs and foxfire.
5
Kitsune often carry round balls alight with kitsune-bi, foxfire.
1
Gennifer's going to have twin hinkypunks if you aren't wearing a goatee in five minutes.
2
Now imagine hinkypunks instead of people.
3
"Well, look who the Hinkypunk dragged out," a voice called overhead.
4
"What's a hinkypunk?" Ralph asked, trying to keep up.
5
"I'll be a hinkypunk's uncle..."
1
My will-o'-wisp fate you know: do you recollect a Sunday we spent together in Eglinton woods?
2
She is the Fenella of the fireside; the will-o'-wisp of our souls; our gaiety; the life of the house.
3
Followed stream down to very shoal bay of our big water, which like the will-o'-wisp has led us on.
4
How dark must have been the night in which such a Will-o'-wisp was mistaken for a star!
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It is only the meteoric light of the ignis fatuus, soon extinguished.
2
The illusion was gone,-theignis fatuus of adventure, the dream of wealth.
3
A light which illuminates centuries must be more than an ignis fatuus.
4
To this had the ignis fatuus of a false love brought her!
5
He leaps over extensive regions of country like an ignis fatuus.
1
It drove away from me like a monstrous jack-o'-lantern driven by the wind.
2
An' dey 'low dey mus' hab a jack-o'-lantern or de fun all sp'iled.
3
His jack-o'-lantern face, Tom saw, was the result of surgery.
4
Ralph glanced up at a floating jack-o'-lantern that seemed to be eyeing his plate.
5
The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom.
Usage of will o' the wisp in English
1
You Christians are chasing a will o' the wisp, a jack o' lantern.
2
Others pursued the will o' the wisp of expansion by adding field to field.
3
Ambition forever beckons, like a will o' the wisp.
4
The will o' the wisp of Russification had already begun to lure the Jewish professional class.
5
He had told himself years ago that religion was a delusion, a will o' the wisp.
6
And I 've had enough of the will o' the wisp Future, enough of the shadowy to-morrows.
7
It was no real light, but a mere will o' the wisp bred in the dank tarn of despair.
8
Mr. Orr is no roaring will o' the wisp minister; what he says he means; and what he means he reads.
9
The Meadow-Brook Girls are the original will o' the wisps.
10
The Will o' the Wisp scratched its head and laughed.
11
But most men call them will o' the wisps, Jasper.
12
And now they were chasing another will o' the wisp-thatof "amateur farming"!
13
Wonderful vegetation, glorious liberty-nogalling conventions-vastspaces-romance-andthe willo'the wisp wealth of the Wild.
14
The immense bowl of the gulf was reflecting their sparkles like thousands of will o' the wisps.
15
He was the sport of a mocking Will o' the Wisp which he had taken for Destiny.
16
Will o'the Wisp will marry the couple-
Translations for will o' the wisp
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