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wispish

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Slight, shy, with wispish gray hair and sparkling eyes, she reminds me of a kindly elfin spirit, mischievous, yet understanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plot is wispish and dreamlike, designed to prove that love is eternal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last time I saw him he was slight, wiry, acutely nervous, with a thin, tightly-featured, reddish face and wispish red hair.

From Time Magazine Archive

So after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent.

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The blackened earth smoked under a dead flame one moment, the next a spark kindled and wispish fire was running through the grass again.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah