Which preposition to use with breeze
The sun appeared to be not more than two hours high (though, in fact, it was more than fifty); the sky was without a cloud, and a fresh breeze from the mountains contributed to make it like one of the most delightful summer evenings of a temperate climate.
A fresh sweet breeze of evening sucked down the hatch.
"Well, then," said he, "give mein the latter part of springdressed in full spring-tide attirein company with five or six young fellows of twenty, or six or seven lads under that age, to do the ablutions in the I stream, enjoy a breeze in the rain-dance, and finish up with songs on the road home.
CHAPTER XI LISTER'S REWARD Signal flags fluttered in the breeze at the top of the Isleta and a smoke cloud stained the blue horizon.
It seems to blend with the whispering sound of breezes on their way, The rattle of their harness and the charger's joyous neigh.
This man was like a mountain breeze to one who has breathed nothing but the faded air of drawing-rooms.
The night had been quiet, and the breeze steady until near on to the dawn, when the wind slacked away to nothing, and we lay there waiting, perchance the sun should bring the breeze with it.
"Anon, we again went for a ride, and I am here to state that the way we breezed through that village made the proverbial Kansas cyclone look as if it was running on crutches.
Then, after he has finished his meal, you may see him crouched close on some level limb with his tail-robe neatly spread and reaching forward to his ears, the electric, outstanding hairs quivering in the breeze like pine-needles.
There's nothing to touch them and when they breeze across the finish I imagine every ranch owner present will want to bid for them.
Too weak now to kill or to follow the fleet caribou, they lay down in the snow waiting, their ears cocked, their noses questioning every breeze for its good news.
Rippling, like breezes over the surface of a golden lake, they came in long, broken lines, moving, following, changing, until the whole wheat-field seemed in shadowy motion.
With the breeze behind us, on we go; Not too much, good Saint Antonio! VI.
Then there was a slight breeze between Miss Jenkyns and Captain Brown over the relative merits of Dr. Johnson and the author of "Pickwick Papers"then being published in partsas writers of light and agreeable fiction.
A light breeze off the land saved them, and in another day they returned to "obtain cocoanuts, plantains, bananas, apples, yams and other roots, which were exchanged for nails and beads."
" The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week.
" He sat through the thickening shadows watching the stars come trooping into the darkening sky, hearkening to the night breeze among the trees, and the thin singing noises of insects.
His horse left steaming at his journey's end, Up through his palace stairs with springing tread He strode; the silence met him like a friend, Fain to dissuade him from that deed of dread, Making a breeze about his burning head, Laying large hands of comfort on his soul; Within the ashes of his cheek burned red A long-shut rose of youth, as to the goal Of death he sped, as once to love's own tryst he stole.
The flower itself is double, and its deep crimsonthe deepest almost of any flower I have ever seenshone conspicuously, as it waved gracefully in the breeze above the surrounding vegetation.
"I'll be bound they've run for port long ago, darlings, so don't cry now, Jane; the old craft's stood many a stronger breeze than this; now, wipe your eyes, there.
As the "Caroline" came boldly up, seeming to bear the breeze before her, the sighing of the wind, as it murmured through the rigging of the stranger, was the only sound that issued from her.
On German yachts the lucky few of officers and men are carried on soft breezes round the harbour and outside the harbour mouth in the evening coolness.
There was the boat, a mere white speck on the water, flying away with a fresh northerly breeze towards the volcano, while the smoke from the latter made a conspicuous and not very distant land-mark.
We'll have a tough time tacking home against such a breeze as this.
There is a breeze along shore at all times.