o'-the-wisps

Updated: August 14, 2026

Many of the company had bespoken will- o'-the-wisps to convoy them home; and the host, in his general beneficence, had engaged the Man in the Moon, with an immense horn- lantern, to be the guide of such desolate spinsters as could do no better for themselves. But a blast of the rising tempest blew out all their lights in the twinkling of an eye.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Select Party