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Zephyr   /zˈɛfər/   Listen
Zephyr

noun
1.
A slight wind (usually refreshing).  Synonyms: air, breeze, gentle wind.  "As he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
2.
(Greek mythology) the Greek god of the west wind.





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"Zephyr" Quotes from Famous Books



... exceedingly warm these last days of May, and that night not a zephyr stirred a ripple. A cloak and scarf of black gauze soon hid the lady's splendour, and they descended the staircase hand in hand to the waiting ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn
... low and solemn tone, Which, though all wings of all the winds seemed furled, Nor even the zephyr's fairy flute is blown, Makes thus forever its mysterious moan From out the whispering ...
— Songs from the Southland • Various
... air" is a pretty conceit. The fanciful notion that a beautiful woman imparts her sweetness to the air, especially with the fragrance of her hair, occurs frequently in the poems of Hafiz and other Orientals. In one of these the poet chides the zephyr for having stolen its sweetness while playing with the beloved's loose tresses. In another, a youth declares that if he should die and the fragrance of his beloved's locks were wafted over his grave, it would bring him back to life. Ben Jonson's ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... darting about beneath the water. Birds of vivid color sometimes flitted among the branches overhead. There was but one "rainy day" while we were at the mine; all the rest of the time not a cloud appeared under the great dome, and a scented zephyr continually drew down from the mountains and fanned us. Here, then, we passed many hours and many days, chatting of our adventures and our chances, drowsily happy in the pure physical enjoyment which this ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss
... and still the evening gloom, Not e'en a zephyr wanders through the grove, Whilst I return to view my Margaret's tomb, And scatter flowers ...
— Fugitive Pieces • George Gordon Noel Byron


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