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zephyr
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  • The smallest puff of air through the quarter-open windows was a zephyr.†  (source)
  • The imposing desolation was barren of any animals except for a bird gliding on the zephyrs.†  (source)
  • I couldn't, not with my hands trembling like saplings in a summer zephyr.†  (source)
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  • The 1936 four-door Lincoln Zephyr sedan moved down the winding road at a decent, if unhurried, pace.†  (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)
  • Zephyr, you're with me," she said, holding out her hand.†  (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)
  • The zephyr that carried me was mild and warm, even as I soared in its currents high over the White Peak, breaking through the gray clouds and into a place where the sun so dazzled that I had to close my eyes.†  (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)
  • The mourners came in a Ford Zephyr and a Transit van.†  (source)
  • ...... There was eternal spring, and placid zephyrs with warm Blasts soothed the flowers born without seed.†  (source)
  • I heard the thunder, then the whistle of the Lowcountry Zephyr as it approached the trestle that crossed the Ashley River.†  (source)
  • Then she: 'Obedient to my rule attend: When through the zone of heaven the mounted sun Hath journeyed half, and half remains to run; The seer, while zephyrs curl the swelling deep, Basks on the breezy shore, in grateful sleep, His oozy limbs.†  (source)
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