I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories] Reference
Tummel -- for he used to build in the cliffs of Ben-Brackie, and if he has shifted his eyrie, a few minutes 'waftage will bear him to Cairn-Gower. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
To make the scene perfectly realistic there is a smell of breakfast cooking, not unpleasant to those within its waftage who are yet to have their appetites appeased. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Two Lectures] Reference
Stygian Banks staying for waftage, 'I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Enjoyment of Art] Reference
And waftage of benignant messages. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
I pass thy ferry and my waftage pay. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia] Reference
A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedy of Errors] Reference
A waftage, peraventure, to their graves. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh : a Drama] Reference
A ship you sent me too, to hier waftage. From Wordnik.com. [A Comedy of Errors (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Comes on the mighty waftage of his wings. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
Staying for waftage, O be thou my Charon. From Wordnik.com. [The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)] Reference
Wherewith, on waftage of miraculous winds. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
S. A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene I. The Comedy of Errors] Reference
And merciless waftage of this Wind of Death!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
Speak just without the waftage of mine ear, 10. From Wordnik.com. [Apparition] Reference
And boats prepar'4 for waftage to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Staying for waftage. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
1642: Staying for waftage. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Cressida (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
And Boats prepar’d for waftage to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference
Let us give ourselves to waftage of the winds. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
No sooner am I alone, than shapes of epic greatness are stationed around me, and serve my spirit the office which is equivalent to a Kings Body-guard: then Tragedy with scepterd pall comes sweeping by: according to my state of mind, I am with Achilles shouting in the trenches, or with Theocritus in the vales of Sicily; or throw my whole being into Troilus, and, repeating those lines, I wander like a lost soul upon the Stygian bank, staying for waftage, I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate, that I am content to be alone. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
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