例文・使い方で印象づける「wisp」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...“Bah! This man of ours is no older than yourself, a thin wisp of a fellow of about your own height and of black hair, just like your own, by the description... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...In thepopular Piedmontese, Bergamasc, and Venetian songof the pilgrim who comes from Rome, the pilgrim isseparated from the woman only by a wisp of straw...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...If, however, we introduce afew pieces of straw, or a tiny wisp of hay, we shallsucceed much better, and not only preserve our populationlonger, but enjoy a succession of animated crops...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
...And, as ever toward the feeble, his big nature went outin friendly protection to this gangling wisp of impishness...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
..."It's horrible to thinkof such a helpless wisp of a baby being beaten and made to work, dayand night...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...The tail may be made of cotton, wrappedtightly and smoothly upon the wire, wisp bywisp...
Leon Luther Pray 「Taxidermy」
...WhenI lift them up and wind them around the poles andtie them with a wisp of grass, they rarely stay...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...A man is wrapt up in askin, and carries a wisp of straw in his mouth, so that theprojecting straws look like the bristles of a boar...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The leader then takes a wisp of grass and ties it in a knot,and all the others do the same...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...The wife sweeps out the house with a wisp of grass and sheor her husband makes a fire on the floor directly under the smoke hole...
Cosmos Mindeleff 「Navaho Houses, pages 469-518」
...Wand or rod with a wisp of grass attached at one end...
James Stevenson 「Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained」
...McGuire saw the man's lips gowhite as a wisp of smoke brought to his nostrils the sickening odor ofburned flesh...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...He was a wisp of a man whose smooth shaven face was apple-red...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...The priests clustered together ina scared group, staring fearfully at the right eye of the idol, fromwhich a wisp of smoke was still trailing...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...But then the fire-drill began to emit a tiny wisp of smoke...
William Fitzgerald Jenkins 「Invasion」
...The rheumy eyes rolled, and a wisp ofdirty gray hair strayed across his gnarled face...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「The Martian Cabal」
...While one waseating one's food with the right hand, one had to keep the left goingwith a wisp, and even then the flies beat us...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
...Then take the famous Andromeda Nebula (see Frontispiece), which is so vast that notwithstanding its immense distance even the naked eye perceives it as an enigmatical wisp in the sky...
Garrett Serviss 「Curiosities of the Sky」
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