So it goes without saying you can expect more than a light zephyr. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The software called zephyr (ph) will be available this summer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference
Today he wanted me to spell "zephyr" and see how many points that would be on a triple-word. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
And of the zephyr from the south and west. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
Of zephyr from the seas, or glimpse of wing. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
"zephyr" and black running-drawers the charged muscles quivered. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
In the voice of a dying zephyr, Diantha interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Not a zephyr breeze stirred the leaves of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
The storm that followed made the first seem a zephyr. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Where the wandering zephyr through long, bright hours. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over slaves!. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference
"Excuse me, my child, I know a zephyr could waft us away.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
While the cool refreshing zephyr bears her tresses in its train. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
Use 2-fold Shetland zephyr, or any similar yarn of moderate twist. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet] Reference
An early zephyr fresh and sweet breathed through the forest shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The spring zephyr that had blown modestly during the day died away. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
This last drawing reduces the roll to about the thickness of zephyr yarn. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The rustle of His wing is in every zephyr; its might is in every tempest. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
The banisters of glass, the cool zephyr enjoy flapped by the willow trees. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
She hesitated a moment, and then like the soft sigh of a zephyr came her words. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
But it was as nothing at all -- a mere zephyr of ill wind -- compared to what the. From Wordnik.com. [Damned If You Don't] Reference
Occasionally a light zephyr came out of the east, but it would last only a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
In an age of pandemic hyperbole, the store's name is a refreshing zephyr of modesty. From Wordnik.com. [The First ‘Pacific President’?] Reference
Even the perception of the lightest zephyr depends upon the resistance of the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Bird-carols and zephyr-murmurs are but medley variations to minor chords of vicarious pain. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Use fourfold Germantown zephyr and a pair of No. 5 needles, with one pair two sizes smaller. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet] Reference
Evidently he was one of those instruments which are played upon at will by the passing zephyr. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
Scarcely a zephyr was stirring, and the stars shone brightly down upon the scene from cloudless skies. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
After a sweltering day the sky is wonderfully brilliant with stars, the air undisturbed by even the faintest zephyr. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The cloud of Mercy is pouring, the zephyr of Providence is wafting and the world of humanity is being stirred and moved. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
I'd see the pasture flecked with sheep and mule and colt and heifer, and let my spirit lie asleep upon the twilight zephyr. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
But portions of his poetry repudiate this thunderous parentage, and are soft as the whispering zephyr or the cooing of doves. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
With ceiling fans, “you can go from breeze to bluster to benign zephyr,” we wrote in our July 1982 report on summer cooling. From Wordnik.com. [Vintage Consumer Reports: Ceiling Fans] Reference
His genius was as universal as the air, where zephyr and storm moved at the imperial will of this Grand Master of human passions. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Only now and then a gentle zephyr rippled its level which, reflected in the sunbeams, appeared like an undulating mass of silver. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
A falling branch, a swift zephyr, may have seemed for an instant articulate, and yet it was surely a human voice which had called her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
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