Citations:will-o'-wisp

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English citations of will-o'-wisp

  • all lights, of the O'Connor or other sorts, hitherto kindled, were but deceptive fish-oil transparencies, or bog will-o'-wisp lights, and no dayspring from on high
    1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection