15 Metaphors for breezes

"Um-m-m," he murmured, apostrophizing it, "yo' 's the right kind o' breeze, yo' is.

The refreshing breezes that fan them become a destructive blast.

Why the play should stop now, while the breeze was still their comrade and the sunshine was brighter than ever, or why they should steal away into the dark den more silently than they had come, none of the cubs could tell.

I am its stony shore, And the breeze that passes o'er; In the hollow of my hand Are its water and its sand, And its deepest resort Lies high in my thought.

The dews sparkling like diamonds on the emerald grasses, were not brighter or fresher than her eyes;the merry breeze might have been gayer, but had not half as much thoughtful joy and tenderness as her gentle laugh;the rosy flush of morning, with all its golden splendor, as of fair Aurora rising to her throne, was not more fair than the delicate cheek.

The Inlet light was now straight to port, but the breeze was brisker, and she hated the thought of losing it.

It was a difficult proceeding for the tinder was damp, and the breeze, though very slight in this hollow portion of the cliffs, nevertheless was an enemy to a trembling little flame.

All the breeze there is haunts them always.

The breeze is fairlet us voyage anew, Where my dream-ship sails o'er the silver sea.

The distant sand-hills are winking in the heat, but the breeze is deliciously cool, the very perfection of temperature, if a man is to sit still in the shade.

"That breeze was a thief," he said.

He durst not enter a room if a rat was heard behind the wainscot, nor cross a field where the cattle were frisking in the sunshine; the least breeze that waved upon the river was a storm, and every clamour in the street was a cry of fire.

"The land breeze" is an advantage which the large islands derive from the inequality of their surface; for as soon as the sea breeze dies away, the hot air of the valleys being rarified, ascends toward the tops of the mountains, and is there condensed by cold, which makes it specifically heavier than it was before; it then descends back to the valleys on both sides of the ridge.

The breeze had become a gale.

The. land-breeze of Italy is a side-wind to vessels quitting the bay of Porto Ferrajo; and two minutes after the rocket exploded the lugger-was gliding almost imperceptibly, and yet at the rate of a knot or two, under her jigger and jib, toward the outer side of the port, or along the very buildings past which she had brushed the previous day.

15 Metaphors for  breezes