A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground.
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Examples for "friar's lantern"
Examples for "friar's lantern"
1It is only the meteoric light of the ignis fatuus, soon extinguished.
2The illusion was gone,-theignis fatuus of adventure, the dream of wealth.
3A light which illuminates centuries must be more than an ignis fatuus.
4To this had the ignis fatuus of a false love brought her!
5He leaps over extensive regions of country like an ignis fatuus.
1It drove away from me like a monstrous jack-o'-lantern driven by the wind.
2An' dey 'low dey mus' hab a jack-o'-lantern or de fun all sp'iled.
3His jack-o'-lantern face, Tom saw, was the result of surgery.
4Ralph glanced up at a floating jack-o'-lantern that seemed to be eyeing his plate.
5The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom.
1I call you 'the will-o'-the-wisp girl' to my own private soul.
2If will-o'-the-wisp really did represent a natural process, there are some possible explanations that Garlaschelli could test.
3The correct rate is no more than a will-o'-the-wisp, changing from day to day in response to changing economic conditions.
4Once her eyes had adjusted, she could see little will-o'-the-wisp lights, so faint and pale that they hardly had color at all.
5The former Kilkenny will-o'-the-wisp is playing senior hurling for 10 years, but had to wait until this game to win his first senior county medal.
6The will-o'-the-wisp cast a terrified look at each one in turn.
7I could call will-o'-the-wisps, but the spiders weren't impressed by them.
8All three looked at the will-o'-the-wisp, who was wriggling with embarrassment.
9The thought of a conversation between Roger and this young will- o'-the-wisp tickled her.
10I can conjure my own will-o'-the-wisp, thank you very much.
11There is no getting hold of the Will-o'-the-Wisp that is the Irish festival trail.
12The will-o'-the-wisp coalesced into a glowing ball, shining in the air before John's knees.
13Goblins have little magic, only petty charms, slumbersongs, will-o'-the-wisp lanterns.
14The will-o'-the-wisp itself belonged to a family that was hardly reputed for truthfulness or reliability.
15He is a veritable will-o'-the-wisp, scurrying here and there in his never-ending search for marauders.
16The will-o'-the-wisps generated by our rotting lives are at least a light in our darkness.
Translations for will-o'-the-wisp