Noun : waftures of incense. From Dictionary.com.
They brought into the hot hard streets the witchery of the woodlands; and no one could inhale for a moment, in passing by, the sweet wafture of their fragrance without being transported in imagination to far-off scenes endeared to memory, and without a thrill of nameless tenderness at the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
"He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [An Anarchist Woman] Reference
William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) 1294With an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith, a romance] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)] Reference
At the close of the third wafture, a roar as of thunder broke and rolled about the place, making the huge hall tremble, and the windows rattle and shake fearfully. From Wordnik.com. [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference
It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Ah me! what wafture nigh at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Prometheus Bound] Reference
Mounted on splendid Thracian chargers, with Catiline at their head, enthroned like a conquering king on his superb black Erebus, they came sweeping at full gallop through the intervals of the foot, and, as they reached the front of the array, wheeled up at once into a long single line, facing their infantry, and at a single wafture of their leader’s hand, halted all like a single man. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)] Reference
And by wafture of swift pinions. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dust] Reference
With an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
But with an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar] Reference
Descended with a wafture and a swoop, 5. From Wordnik.com. [From "Edwin the Fair"] Reference
Elusive notes in wandering wafture borne. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Whence not a cry, no wafture once reveals. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul] Reference
Elusive notes in wandering wafture borne. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
With wafture of blown garments bright as fire. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dust] Reference
Through that vague wafture, expirations strong. From Wordnik.com. [Poets of the South] Reference
QUOTATION: With an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
Caught by the wafture of a golden lure. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..] Reference
But, with an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Caught by the wafture of a golden lure, 545. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
20With an angry wafture of your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Julius Cæsar] Reference
Hand, adore the, 289. against every man, 812. and glove, 413. and heart, I give my, 530. and heart open and free, 102. angry wafture of your, 112. bird in the, 15, 740. books to hold in the, 375. cheek upon her, 105. cloud like a man's, 815. eager heart the kindlier, 633. findeth to do do it, 831. foot and, go cold, 23. for hand foot for foot, 813. forget her cunning, 824. freeman with unpurchased, 636. glove upon that, 105. handle toward my, 119. has brushed them, no friendly, 296. her 'prentice, 446. his red right, 227. hold a fire in his, 81. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
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