Birds, half awakened, crept and chirped among the rustling leaves, and the smell of ripened grapes came in brief wafts from the arbours.

Preceded by a faint waft of scent and a rustle of silk, she reappeared, tying the strings of the hat that made a dainty diadem above her smiling eyes.

As one of Mr. Punch's correspondents at the front writes: "Dawn to me hereafter will not be personified as a rosy-fingered damsel or a lovely swift-footed deity, but as a sturdy little man in khaki, crimson-eared with cold, heralded and escorted by frozen wafts of outer air, bearing in one knobby fist a pair of boots, and in the other a tin mug of black and smoking tea."

" "He must come in, St. George; but do attend to businesslook!" "Whew!" exclaimed Brandon, having inspected the plates; "it must have been a very intelligent waft of wind that did this.

The air now and then made a soundless sigh about her head, like a waft of wings invisible.

No sign of man remained, save, very far below through a rift in the pale, moonlit waft of cloud, a tiny light against a coal-black plain of seathe light of a slow, crawling steamera light which almost at once dropped far behind.

No sign of man remained, save, very far below through a rift in the pale, moonlit waft of cloud, a tiny light against a coal-black plain of seathe light of a slow, crawling steamera light which almost at once dropped far behind.

Thou shouldst waft not on the air.

In the same instant, there came to me a sudden waft of the awful smell.