115 Metaphors for airs

I have, at least, had enough personal experience to be sure that the early morning air is delicious, the best of the day.

The air is a kind of food that nourishes the animal, and by means of which he renews himself every moment of his life.

The air was 'The last Rose of Summer'

In trying to form this mental picture we remember that when the air is removed the feather fails as rapidly as the quill, and thus we see that the air is the cause of the feather's rising; we mentally see the air pushing under the feather, and see it almost as plainly as if the air were a visible mass thrusting the feather upwards.

Often the air is all aflutter with butterflies, many of them remarkable for their size or the beauty of their colouring.

The purpose of their use is the production of a gas; but air is a gas much more economical and abundant than carbonic-acid gas, and which, when introduced into bread and subjected to heat, has the property of expanding, and in doing, puffing up the bread and making it light.

And the hot dry air, that you breathe when you rush to the fire, is the praise that one gets from one's young, happy, rosy, I may even say florid friends!

The air is almost as good a tonic as that of the Scotch moors, whilst there is the additional satisfaction of being at home in September instead of flying away to the North, and having to put up with all the discomfort of a long railway journey each way.

Such was Pythagoras the silencer; Prometheus, Thales, Milesius, Who would all things of water should be made: Anaximander, Anaxamines, That positively said the air was God: Zenocrates, that said there were eight gods; And Cratoniates and Alcmaeon too, Who thought the sun and moon and stars were gods.

It came down so fast that the whole earth was flooded, and the air was all fog and mist.

The air was drier for one thing.

And the air is gold and the distance blue, There's a pull at the heart!

And the air, too, had become sultry and close, and the sky was growing dark above them.

My family and I frequently sit out here in the evenings, but to-night the air is a little damp.

These tepid airs Are not the genial brood of May; That sun with light malignant glares, And flatters only to betray.

Indeed, my health is entirely restored; the riding and country air have been the means of restoring me.

The air is a blur of sulphurous blackness.

I make no further comment upon the singing, nor the cause of it; but in the cool of the evening when the air was stilland he usually came in the eveningI often heard the cadences of his song with a thrill of pleasure.

The air is a conductor of sound, and in some conditions one of the best.

We had seated ourselves in front of the chimney; the air, outside, was tepid; but great drops of icy cold damp fell from the ceilings inside the farmhouse.

The air was all fragranceall splendor the skies, While bright shone the earth and the sea.

Believe me, the air has often quite a tonic quality.

The air to which they chant their couplets is almost always a Campagna melody.

The women, without being strikingly handsome, have much grace; their air, manner and dress are perfectly à la francaise.

In trying to form this mental picture we remember that when the air is removed the feather fails as rapidly as the quill, and thus we see that the air is the cause of the feather's rising; we mentally see the air pushing under the feather, and see it almost as plainly as if the air were a visible mass thrusting the feather upwards.

115 Metaphors for  airs