"You'll get sprinkled," said she, flourishing the corn-whisk over a table-cloth.

We were within a couple o' days sail of New York, when one of those moist fogs came up, such as will make a fellow lose a whisk of his patience, if he happens to have any.

From the floor below came a breezy buzz of voices, laughter, the snap of ivory fans spreading, the whisk and rustle of petticoats.

"That won't do," said Barbara, quite shocked, and tossing the whisk aside.

The impression left on my mind by my visitor is just as though a grasshopper had leapt upon my window-sill from the garden-bed, and sate there awhile, with his blank eyes, his long, impassive, horse-like face, twiddling his whisks and sawing out a whizzing note with his dry arm.

] MEPHISTOPHELES (twirling the whisk which he holds in his hand, and striking among the glasses and pots) Dash!