Слово "wisp". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.

The rest were shock-headed, but Piggy’s hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness were his natural state and this imperfect covering would soon go, like the velvet on a young stag’s antlers.

She felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest — felt her own helplessness without quite realising the wisp on the tide that she was.

Not Miss Debenham – that class of Englishwoman has a dainty linen handkerchief, not an expensive wisp of cambric costing perhaps two hundred francs.

Wisps of laughter trailed back to him with the blue exhaust from the beetle.

Far up, far down, plumed with wisps of smoke, toy cabins stuck to bank and gulch and hillside.

Taking the wisp broom from its nail inside the door, the newcomer brushed the snow from his moccasins and high German socks.

For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air.