She was a poor weak creature, and so she looked with her pale insignificant face and dull eyes, a wisp of loose hair lying damp on her forehead. She seemed indeed too weak a thing to stand even for a moment in the way of what must be done this night, and 'twas almost irritating to be stopped by her.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
The little wisps of hair flashed again in the sunlight. It was she! He had found her. She took his silence for hesitation, and continued a little anxiously. "I really won't ask you many questions, and it would do me quite a lot of good to get an interview with you. Of course I oughtn't to have begun this sketch without permission. If you mind that, I'll give it up."
He found his tongue awkwardly, but vigorously. "You can sketch just as long as ever you please, and make what use of it you like," he said.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
He was of their order though he was a beggar. But as regards himself, he was fully conscious of the difference. The measure of his wealth was the measure of his standing amongst them. Without it he would be thrust forth - he could make no claim to association with them. The thought filled him with a slow, bitter anger. He sent away his soup untasted, and he could not find heart to speak to the girl who had been the will-o'-the-wisp leading him into this evil plight. Presently she addressed him. Trent!"
He turned round and looked at her.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
The horses needed no indication of the line to make them turn up a smooth bit of road that curved away neatly 'mid the ragged grasses. At the end of it, in a clump of puny scrub oaks, stood a square little house, in uncorniced simplicity, with blank, uncur- tained windows staring out at Annie, and for a moment her eyes, blurred with the cold, seemed to see in one of them the despairing face of the woman with the wisps of faded hair blowing about her face.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Besides the benches by the fireside and the bed, the only piece of furniture in the room was a coarse wooden table, with a loaf of black bread, a knife, and a pitcher of cider placed on it. Old nets, coils of rope, tattered sails, hung, about the walls and over the wooden partition which separated the room into two compartments. Wisps of straw and ears of barley drooped down through the rotten rafters and gaping boards that made the floor of the granary above.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
From the level of the ordinary roofs, combined in many plateaus, dotted with short iron chimneys from which curled wisps of steam, arose other mountains like the Eclipse Building. They were great peaks, ornate, glittering with paint or polish. Northward they subsided to sun-crowned ranges.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
You're hiding something, And I'm gonna pull it out of you, and when that happens, there is a chance-- the remotest, slimmest wisp of a chance-- that you might actually become an artist.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
His long, long journey has readied him for this day, though his skin may be loose, his hair but a wisp, and his eyes milky with age," All right, we're done here.美剧 · 《Modern Family》