Like a golden-red, dark-edged streamer it winds along between the straggling thicket of alders, in which a choir of nightingales are just clearing their throats and, all unconscious of their superior merit, are about to commence a singing competition with the frogs down there.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann
Charley stopped there that night, and for three days more, until at last in the distance he saw Wiley's white racer at the tip of a streamer of dust.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
Sometimes there is but one line of cloud, a single streamer stretching right across the sky.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies