29 adverbs to describe how to waft

The only source of consolation, under these troubles, was the uninterrupted fair weather they enjoyed, and the favorable winds which wafted them gently onward; so that Magellan was induced to call the Ocean Pacific: hence the origin of its name.

Then there were oysters in every varietysilver dishes containing them stewed, their fragrant macey odour wafting itself upward, and causing watery sensations about the mouth.

The breeze itself had scarcely stirred the water; or,the soft sound of tiny billows lapping the outstanding boulders was wafted upwards as the tide drew in.

And as the wind-gusts waft The sea-foam brightly, So the loud laugh of scorn, Out of those lips unshorn, From the deep drinking-horn Blew the foam lightly.

Each of these groups was, of course, accompanied by an officer guideseveral were detailed at the Quartier for this special dutywhose complex and nerve-racking task it was to answer all questions, make all arrangements, report to each local commandant, pass sentries, and comfortably waft his flock of civilians through the maze of barriers which cover every foot, so to speak, of the region near the front.

The heat was now becoming intense (it was mid-September) and the horses were suffering, and most of this last stage was done at walking pace; but such was the exhilaration of the air, such the delight of the aromas which the breeze continually wafted from the woods, now sweet, now pungent, and always refreshing, that one felt no fatigue even though walking too.

"O gentle wind ('tis thus she sings) That blowest to the west, Oh, couldst thou waft me on thy wings To the land that I love best, How swiftly o'er the-ocean's foam, Like a sea-bird I would sail.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

And the thin hands eagerly waft some grateful kisses to the group below.

fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Not infrequently, when we were steaming along the 20th parallel of north latitudethat is to say, well in the torrid zoneand were wafted by the trade winds that were after us at about our own speed, heavy showers came up in the night and spoiled the luxurious content of those who were spread on the decks.

The moisture is furnished by the ocean, is raised by the sun's heat from the ocean's surface, and is wafted inland by the winds.

The newly discovered continent of America was an appanage of Spain, and her great galleons were wafted lazily to and fro, bringing her all the treasures of the western hemisphere.

6 I would that my love and its sadness Might a single word convey, The joyous breezes should bear it, And merrily waft it away.

After him it came pursuing, and wafted him mightily on.

She turned in the doorway and wafted me a kiss from her finger-tips, airily and a little mockingly.

The air was steaming with delightful fragrance, not rising and wafting past in separate masses, but diffused through all the atmosphere.

Twenty miles, or so, of Chesuncook, of sun-cooked Chesuncook, we traversed by the aid of our blanket-sail, pleasantly wafted by the unboisterous breeze.

The faint sweet fragrance of brier-roses clustering at the foot of the mountain wafted reproachfully upon the chill air an entreaty to return.

But, for the rest, the monsters waited motionless in the sunlight, their state-cloths, hung as from the old barges, from stem to stern, as motionless as themselves, except when now and again the summer breeze stirred from the south-west, lifting the lazy streamers, wafting softly the heavy embroideries, and stirring, even as the wind stirs the wheat, the glittering giants that waited to do their Lord honour.

'Tis the voice of PUNCHINELLO wafting sonorously from his tower the instructive moral "Whoe'er sells stocks as isn't his'n, Must pay up or go to pris'n.

Then a brisk wind will speedily waft us to the point from whence we started, viz.

Not of the earth, that hath not scent nor song, Nor hope of aught, nor memory, nor dream, Nor any speech upon its sullen tongue, Nor any liberty of running stream; Not of the earth, that hath forgot to smile; But, strangely wafted o'er the frozen sea, As from some hidden Cytherean isle, Veil within veil, the sweetness came to me.

Till far into the night gay crowds parade the streets to music or float on the river in gondolas decked with flowers.[440] So long ago in ancient Rome barges crowned with flowers and crowded with revellers used to float down the Tiber on Midsummer Day, the twenty-fourth of June, and no doubt the strains of music were wafted as sweetly across the water to listeners on the banks as they still are to the throngs of merrymakers at Riga.

While Lohengrin was swiftly wafted over the waters, Else, Duchess of Brabant, spent her days in tears.

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