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zephyr
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  • Uh, maybe you could supervise Zephyr with setting the table?†   (source)
  • Outside there were no other cars, no lights other than the Zephyr's.†   (source)
  • Yeah, Zephyr's a big improvement," Fang said.†   (source)
  • The Zephyr rolled again, and clipped a tree, which slowed its momentum.†   (source)
  • Zephyr, you're with me," she said, holding out her hand.†   (source)
  • Jack swung the wheel back the other way, but the Zephyr's balance was gone, its brakes useless.†   (source)
  • She could sense that even the bottom-heavy Zephyr would not maintain its balance.†   (source)
  • But now the Zephyr was off the road and onto sloped ground, and there were trees up ahead.†   (source)
  • Uh, what Zephyr said.†   (source)
  • Zephyr?†   (source)
  • Now Zephyr?†   (source)
  • The Zephyr's headlights were somehow still working, and she looked frantically for her father in the confusion of light and dark.†   (source)
  • The Zephyr responded with unexpected agility and actually missed the car, leaving the careless man to live another day.†   (source)
  • The Lincoln Zephyr did not belong to him, for luxuries such as automobiles, fancy or plain, seemed forever beyond his reach.†   (source)
  • The steel of the Zephyr fought a fearsome battle with the hard-packed dirt, but the earth finally triumphed and the car's top and right side buckled.†   (source)
  • I did not even hear the lion roaring at night in the Hampton Park Zoo or the whistle of the 11:42 train, the Low-country Zephyr, speeding across the trestle on the river at the exact same time that it had every single night I had been on campus.†   (source)
  • What do you want for fifty bucks—a Zephyr?†   (source)
  • A Lincoln Zephyr, silvery and low, whisked by.†   (source)
  • But them"—he indicated the disappearing Zephyr—"them kind costs as much as a good size house.†   (source)
  • Well, a Zephyr got sap.†   (source)
  • I'd take a Zephyr myself.†   (source)
  • Give me a Zephyr.†   (source)
  • The hurricane is succeeded by a zephyr of amiable surprise.†   (source)
  • He felt a zephyr curling about his cheek, and turned.†   (source)
  • There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a woodpecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.†   (source)
  • He opened it cautiously with his left hand lest he should waken the child and began to read the first poem in the book: Hushed are the winds and still the evening gloom, Not e'en a Zephyr wanders through the grove, Whilst I return to view my Margaret's tomb And scatter flowers on the dust I love.†   (source)
  • Spring had come, clad in no classical garb, yet fairer than all springs; fairer even than she who walks through the myrtles of Tuscany with the graces before her and the zephyr behind.†   (source)
  • As for Hetty, her feet rested on a cloud, and she was borne along by warm zephyrs; she had forgotten her rose-coloured ribbons; she was no more conscious of her limbs than if her childish soul had passed into a water-lily, resting on a liquid bed and warmed by the midsummer sun-beams.†   (source)
  • Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed.†   (source)
  • Listen to every zephyr for some reproof, for it is surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not hear it.†   (source)
  • During the mysterious trip from the island of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French brig of war, Le Zephyr, having encountered the brig L'Inconstant, on which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from L'Inconstant, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "The Emperor is well."†   (source)
  • To them I might plead, in Mrs Warren's words, "Well, it's only good manners to be ashamed, dearie;" but it surprises me, recollecting as I do the effect produced by Miss Fanny Brough's delivery of that line, that gentlemen who shivered like violets in a zephyr as it swept through them, should so completely miss the full width of its application as to go home and straightway make a public exhibition of mock modesty.†   (source)
  • A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.†   (source)
  • Did she come or go, the birds ruffled their wings in greeting; the unruly winds sank to cooling zephyrs; the white lotus rose from the water's depth to look at her; the solemn river loitered on its way; the palm-trees, nodding, shook all their plumes; and they seemed to say, this one, I gave her of my grace; that, I gave her of my brightness; the other, I gave her of my purity: and so each as it had a virtue to give.†   (source)
  • Still, the Tankadere was so light, and her fine sails caught the fickle zephyrs so well, that, with the aid of the currents John Bunsby found himself at six o'clock not more than ten miles from the mouth of Shanghai River.†   (source)
  • I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry.†   (source)
  • ...... There was eternal spring, and placid zephyrs with warm Blasts soothed the flowers born without seed.†   (source)
  • Ned Lambert, seated on the table, read on: —Or again, note the meanderings of some purling rill as it babbles on its way, tho' quarrelling with the stony obstacles, to the tumbling waters of Neptune's blue domain, 'mid mossy banks, fanned by gentlest zephyrs, played on by the glorious sunlight or 'neath the shadows cast o'er its pensive bosom by the overarching leafage of the giants of the forest.†   (source)
  • Under a tuft of shade that on a green
    Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side
    They sat them down; and, after no more toil
    Of their sweet gardening labour than sufficed
    To recommend cool Zephyr, and made ease
    More easy, wholesome thirst and appetite
    More grateful, to their supper-fruits they fell,
    Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
    Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
    On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers:
    The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind,
    Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimmin†   (source)
  • These changes in the Heavens, though slow, produced
    Like change on sea and land; sideral blast,
    Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot,
    Corrupt and pestilent: Now from the north
    Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore,
    Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice,
    And snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw,
    Boreas, and Caecias, and Argestes loud,
    And Thrascias, rend the woods, and seas upturn;
    With adverse blast upturns them from the south
    Notus, and Afer black with thunderous clouds
    From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce,
    Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds,
    Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise,
    Sirocco and Libecchio.†   (source)
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