Not that I've got much expectation myself that we'll be sure to find this same; Roland, who turns out to be a sort of will-o'-the-wisp to us; but since his old aunt was so kind as to finance this expedition, why we're bound to do all we can to make it a blooming success, that's what.

Shall we think of this wish as right, or wrong; as a true star, or a will-o'-the-wisp?

For a long, long time he watched it, trying to recall something which eluded him, chasing a will-o'-the-wisp memory round and round the fevered labyrinths of his brain.

If, before this, the youth had no light at all to guide him, he is now misled by a will-o'-the-wisp; still more often is this the case with a girl.

fatuos: fuegos , ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp. fauces, f. pl., jaws.

While Carl Maria von Weber was still a babe, Franz Anton started once more after the will-o'-the-wisp of theatrical fame, with his "Weber's Company of Comedians."

She had thought it just possible that this affair had been a travelling flirtation; that Nick, though infatuated, would return to his old allegiance when this witch-light, this will-o'-the-wisp, this love pirate, had gone.

You owes her more than one good turn now, or I'm mistaken!" "Who the devil are you?" asked Tom, startled, and with reason; yet conscious, in his dark, dreary despair, of a vague glimmer, bearing the same relation to hope that a will-o'-the-wisp does to the light on our hearth at home.

A third and better thought, however, immediately followedthat bound as he was he would have little chance to reach this elusive will-o'-the-wisp.

How had he ever dared bring such a will-o'-the-wisp away from home?

I thought it was only wasting a candle to chase a will-o'-the-wisp.

A pacific agreement with England is, after all, a will-o'-the-wisp which no serious German statesman would trouble to follow.

The only trouble with the horizon, as with to-morrow and the will-o'-the-wisp, is that it is always just ahead.

She is the feu follet, the will-o'-the-wisp that hovers over what is rotten, and dead.

The echo of the laugh that he had heard in his dream still sounded in his ears, a tantalizing, compelling note, elusive as the Pipes of Pan, luring as a will-o'-the-wisp.

Will-o'-the-wisp.

Will-o'-the-wisp.

"This Olive-backed Thrush you may hear more often than seehe is a will-o'-the-wisp for shyness, whether on his journeys or about home.

" If this is trueif there is love in all the marriages of what is one of the lowest human racesthen I have been pursuing a will-o'-the-wisp in the preceding pages of this book, and it will be a waste of ink and paper to write another line.

If the youth was previously in the dark, he will now be led astray by a will-o'-the-wisp: and with a girl this is still more frequently the case.

She is called le Feu-Follet, which is not Wing-and-Wing, but Will-o'-the-Wisp, or Jack-o'-Lantern, in English; and which you, in Italian, would call il Fuoco Fatuo.

In short, he has been widely regarded at home and abroad as a bold and dashing novice in agricultural experience, ready to lavish upon his own hasty inventions a fortune acquired in his London warehouse; and all this to make himself famous as a great light in the agricultural world, which light, after all, was a mere will-o'-the-wisp sort of affair, leading its dupes into the veriest bog of bankruptcy.

She half expected to see something hover before her, a will-o'-the-wisp, alluring her over the rocky valleys and towering mountains until death gave her weary feet rest.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the causeway to it.

And the assailant, swerving like a will-o'-the-wisp, darted to the side of the animal and leaped upon its back.