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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
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That's borne on the zephyr's low sorrowful sobbing.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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When the morning shines forth, and the zephyr's calm gale
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't much wonder, now, at the start she gave, for I presume there was not the zephyr's softness in my voice.
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