Whisp

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Whisp

a flock of snipe. Also, wisp.

Examples: whisp of rushes, 1622; of snipe; of straw, 1693.

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With its name derived from Queerditch Marsh, the location of the first recorded game, Quidditch is granted cultural validity and meaning through a venerable lineage detailed in an account entitled Quidditch through the Ages, written by Kennilworthy Whisp (aka J.

The magical world of Quidditch

This object is the person's only knowledge of a lost subject that surfaces as "some unitary trait, some memory whisp, some stark image" (Ragland, 2001:13).

Metaphors of pain: the use of metaphors in trauma narrative with reference to Fugitive pieces/Metafore van pyn: die gebruik van metafore in die narratief van trauma met verwysing na Fugitive pieces

Sea heat all's sow stared whisp flared fever sand's fever:

Psalm 148

Deer seem to be everywhere, in backyards, parks, farms and fields, but a deer that chooses not to be seen becomes so much as a whisp of smoke, a shadow or less.

Ghosts of the woodland: whitetails enthrall us. It's that simple

Yet it is notable that Gulliver, at this stage, also declines the Spartan Houyhnhnm snack of a 'Whisp of Hay, and a Fetlock full of Oats'.

Lemuel self-translated; or, being an ass in Houyhnhnmland

Shortly thereafter, halfway through a twenty-one-line speech by Bentivoli, "ent Gismond / whisp elinor" appears boxed in the left margin similar to the arrangement at the opening of the play shown in Figure 11: middle portion, lines 578-80.

Dulwich MS. XX, The Telltale: clues to provenance

Walter was born June 24, 1920, in Whisp, Ark., to Gilbert and Ava Fleming Walter.

OBITUARIES

Dublin makes a purplish splash, peeking out from _ a whisp of cloud and to the north east, Belfast is more clearly visible.

FREE A super satellite poster of Ireland

Pilot results of the Women's Hormone Intervention Secondary Prevention (WHISP) study from London even provided cautious reassurance about low-dose estrogen (1 mg/day of 17[beta] estradiol) with norethisterone acetate in women with cardiovascular disease--the very group that drew the most concern in the 1998 Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS).

HRT's bone benefit lingers for years after use. (Heart Safety Endorsed in Whisp Study)

The deeply eroded, lunar landscape is pockmarked with hundreds of crater-like holes, some emitting a thin whisp of smoke.

A room with no view

with a whisp trout like a spirit." This metaphor of inspiriting the inanimate reflects Schopenhauer's insistence that "we are compelled to recognize volition in every nature or tendency of a material body" ("Will" 309).

Ted Hughes and Schopenhauer: the poetry of the will

1.44 (450m): Glasmeen Shimmer, Our Darcy, Farloe Harper (M), Saratoga Wave (M), Cu Sith Mist (M), Jays Whisp (W).