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windlestraw
WIN-del-straw
noun
something light; something or someone of no significance
1899H. G. WellsLove and Mr LewishamAnd as for you—you who have hardly learned to think for more than five or six short years, there you sit, assured, coherent, there you sit in all your inherited original sin—Hallucinatory Windlestraw!—judging and condemning.1909John GalsworthyStudies and Essays, Concerning LettersWhat then is the reason of my existence? Am I but a windlestraw?'1911Romain RollandJean Christophe In ParisBut the insensate current of the passing throng carried her along like a windlestraw, while the horse of an omnibus, falling on the slippery asphalt, made a sort of dyke in front of Christophe, by which the opposing streams of carriages were dammed, so that for a few moments there was an impassable barrier.

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