A wisp of smoke was rising slowly from a big coil.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
"I'm off now, miss," he said to Verena, pulling a wisp of hair as he spoke.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
I saw R. on my right out in the full blaze of the sun get one of the three, then wisp after wisp got up and we began to bag them and to fear our cartridges would run out.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch