ignis fatuus
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It flashed through his mind that he had wasted two months pursuing an ignis fatuus, only to have nothing but bitterness at the end, when it might have been ——!
From Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League by Armstrong, W. N.
Was this light of hope that gilded so beautifully the sad, dark hour of human woe, only a mocking ignis fatuus, so soon to go out in everlasting darkness?
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
Love is not the offspring of an hour or a day, nor is it the ignis fatuus which plays about the brain, and disturbs the sleep of the youth and the maiden in their teens.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
Diogenes is not the only man whose disturbed digestion has led multitudes, like an ignis fatuus, into the bogs and marshes of falsehood.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Natural phenomena, as ignis fatuus, account for some; the mist-mirage explains others.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel
