The Only Use of
zephyr
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 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.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
a slight wind; or anything that is light or insubstantial