smoke-curl

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Then there was a silence that seemed interminable, a gathering of two or three dark figures where a smoke-curl still lazily floated, and then the hurried, husky, panting voice of Col. Starbottle in his ear, "He's hit hard -- through the lungs you must run for it!"

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869
She was slight, as all southern women are in America, and of a flexible and luxurious gracefulness equalled by nothing but the movings of a smoke-curl.

Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to 1853