wisp

A thin man with a wisp of a goatee beard, he struggles with a stutter to explain what happened to him that day.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

Rosemary flitted about like a will o' the wisp, and finally went to the window, where she stood looking wistfully out.

As she left the wood she saw a big hay-stack, as firm and shapely of outline as a house, not a loose wisp anywhere.

A wisp of wheat was knotted round her neck for a necklace, and a perfect sheaf of it in her hair.

I was told that subsequent to that matter my will-o'-the-wisp was coming on here positively.