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Striped awnings had been affixed to each window, whose scalloped edges would flap in chance waftures of breeze, while the stout bunting above them changed the sunny rigors outside to a continual soothing gloom.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The weather was delightfully clear and warm, and in the afternoon she fell to thinking of the promenade on the wall by the Bucoleon, and of the waftures over the Sea from the Asian Olympus.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis

At this point it is that the vague waftures of sweetness which have been fitfully soliciting us all through these scenes, concentrate themselves and make their call irresistible.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

There he could sit in the shade, cooled by waftures from a wide campania southward, or, peering over the balustrade, watch the peasantry flitting through the breaks of the Kosmidion, now the purlieus of Eyoub.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis

Into this disembodied world would come anon waftures of that peachy scent which I knew: and their frequency rapidly grew.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)