waft

• It's funny how those thoughts kind of waft into your head. —  Benjamin Zander on music and passion
• Then he passed through another waft, and felt far more positive; of course he would find her. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
• That shift from vanilla to cordite to jasmine, those are just the dominant scents of course, each waft is a mix of scores of them, I think, but what a progression, heart-rending I assure you Near the drinks table a friend of Hasan's, named Tristan, played an oud with a strange tuning, strumming simple chords over and over, and singing in one of the old Frankish languages. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Not till the destroying angel of tempest had achieved his perfect work, would he fold the wings whose waft was thunder—the tremor of whose plumes was storm After Villette , the Last Sketch , the Fragment of Emma ; that fragment which Charlotte Bronte read to her husband not long before her death. —  The Three Brontes
• Friends who see each other so often are infrequent correspondents ROME, December 31, 1868 MY DEAR AGASSIZ I fully intended to write you from Switzerland, that my letter might come to you like a waft of cool air from a glacier in the heat of summer. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

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