单词 | wafture |
例句 | Striped awnings had been affixed to each window, whose scalloped edges would flap in chance waftures of breeze, while the stout bunting above them changed the sunny rigors outside to a continual soothing gloom. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And anon he sniffed with his nostrils for a scent of violets, for a wafture from the grave, which came not. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z In gentle waftures of sound the vast prelude arose, filling my soul with an eerie delight, and causing me to draw a deep, shuddering breath. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z For a moment Brunhild remained thoughtful, and then ordering the other pages out of the chamber with a wafture of her hand she addressed the one who had first come in. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter The Shape made answer none, But with stern wafture of its hand went angrier striding on, Shaking the earth with heavier steps. The Irish Fairy Book A big sigh escaped Charles-Norton, with a blue wafture of smoke. The Trimming of Goosie At this point it is that the vague waftures of sweetness which have been fitfully soliciting us all through these scenes, concentrate themselves and make their call irresistible. The Wagnerian Romances "He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand. An Anarchist Woman At a second wafture, the nephew and the freedman both departed, glad to be spared the witnessing a scene so awful as that which was about to ensue. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 No attempted oratory with him! no prepared surprises! no playhouse tricks! no studied graces in wafture of hands and upheaved eyes! Paul Faber, Surgeon Into this disembodied world would come anon waftures of that peachy scent which I knew: and their frequency rapidly grew. The Purple Cloud The weather was delightfully clear and warm, and in the afternoon she fell to thinking of the promenade on the wall by the Bucoleon, and of the waftures over the Sea from the Asian Olympus. The Prince of India — Volume 02 There he could sit in the shade, cooled by waftures from a wide campania southward, or, peering over the balustrade, watch the peasantry flitting through the breaks of the Kosmidion, now the purlieus of Eyoub. The Prince of India — Volume 01 The air was filled with the songs of birds and was heavy with rich warm fragrances—wafture from great lilies, and blazing blossoms of hibiscus, and other strange gorgeous tropic flowers. The Cruise of the Snark I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings. Lilith, a romance Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting. South Sea Tales |
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