zephyr

• Boreas blows on it tenderly as a zephyr--and the wintry sunshine seems summery as it plays on the celestial colours. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• After awhile day dawned, and the fog was still thick around them, while not a zephyr was astir. —  Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814
• This is called one of the compensations of Nature This is what happened after the convention of the blackbirds: A moaning south wind brought rain; a southwest wind turned the rain to snow; what is called a zephyr, out of the west, drifted the snow; a north wind sent the mercury far below freezing. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
• This they could not very well do without repassing through Pen- zephyr, at which place they had now again arrived In the train she had seen a weekly local paper, and read there a paragraph detailing the inquest on Charles. —  A Changed Man; and other tales
• He sighed like a zephyr, and presently said Well, I'll do it for you, but before I would do it for another, I swear I But don't swear. —  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1

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