Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
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Examples
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While she follows the mad fen-fire that conducts her to her doom.
The Poems of William Watson William Watson 1896
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Rose and walked awhile alive, though mocked as whom the fen-fire leads
Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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They will invent, for all that is incomprehensible, words and numbers; and heap system upon system, till they have brought deeper darkness upon the earth, through which doubt, like the fen-fire, will only shine to allure the wanderer into the morass.
Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1791
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