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  • She shivered at the zephyr's cool fingers as they caressed her skin, then walked into the warm, welcoming water.

    In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • That's borne on the zephyr's low sorrowful sobbing.

    Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

  • When the morning shines forth, and the zephyr's calm gale

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

  • And yet -- with every swelling spring Each pollen-scented zephyr's breath Repeats the patient news to ears Made dull by dreams of loveless years,

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • "Not that I'm fishin 'for an invitation to see you safe to the Hat Ranch, because that'd start talk, an' anyhow I ain't one o 'the presumin' kind an 'you know it; but it's dark an' the zephyr's blowin 'like sixty, an' if there was one hobo on that freight I come in on there was a dozen."

    The Long Chance 1918

  • If any soft zephyr's breath wuz wafted to any one of us from a open winder on a hot evenin 'or sunny noon, he wuz the one she wanted wafted to, and breathed on.

    Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

  • Suddenly the pure, white light of heaven breaks through the red glow of the drama; the scene is beautiful, but short and swift and fleeting as the zephyr's breath.

    The Northern Light E. Werner 1878

  • In Nora-Bamma, whispers are as shouts; and at a zephyr's breath, from the woodlands shake the leaves, as of humming-birds, a flight.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

  • The young lady took the lute and, after tuning each several string, began in gentle undersong to sing, softer than zephyr's wing and sweeter than

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • I don't much wonder, now, at the start she gave, for I presume there was not the zephyr's softness in my voice.

    Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper 1847

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