Listen to every zephyr for some reproof, for it is surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not hear it.
No gains too cheaply earned his fancy cloy, 15 Though every passing zephyr whispers joy; Brisk toil, alternating with ready ease, Feeds the clear current of his sympathies.
Here we are, Charley," said Frank, as the Zephyr pulled ahead of the other boats.
He had given such a direction to the exercises in Zephyr Hall as he thought would best attain this end.
Then the next member in each boat was passed over to the other, and so on, till the whole starboard side of the Zephyr was manned by Butterflies, and the larboard side of the Butterfly by Zephyrs.
At six o'clock in the morning the Zephyr and the Butterfly were manned, and the boys went over to the island to trim the May-pole with evergreen and flowers.
As the Zephyr approached, the Sylph luffed, and came up into the wind, to wait for her.
The Zephyr darted away like an arrow, and the slow, measured, musical stroke of the oars was pleasant and exciting to the rowers.
The coxswain of the Zephyr steered her towards the vehicle, which still hung to the rock, and, by a skilful maneuver, contrived to make fast the line to one of the shafts of the chaise.
I do not mean all; for two members of the Zephyr Club had wandered away from the rest of the party to the north side of the island.
The Zephyr was now approaching the dangerous rocks, and Frank was obliged to turn his attention to the steering of the boat through the perilous passage.
May the Zephyr and the Butterfly cruise together in entire harmony; may no hard words or hard thoughts be called forth by either, but may all be peace and good-will.
Though the Zephyr still pursued her former tactics, her rival was no longer able to gain upon her.
As he spoke, with a sudden flash of energy he drove his oarsmen to their utmost speed and strength, and the Zephyr shot by the judges' boat full a length and a half ahead of the Butterfly.
At one time the Zephyr Flowers were grown in warm greenhouses, but experience has proved that they are much hardier than was at first supposed.
You pause, and a low, sweet strain sighs softly through the room, as if a zephyr had swept the string, dying gently away like the faintest breathing of the evening breeze.
Even the perception of the lightest zephyr depends upon the resistance of the atmosphere.
So shines the Nymph in beauty's blushing pride, 340 When Zephyr wafts her deep calash aside; Tears with rude kiss her bosom's gauzy veil, And flings the fluttering kerchief to the gale.
From a kiss of a zephyr and rose Love sprang in an exquisite hour, And fleeting and sweet, heaven knows, Is this child of a sigh and a flower.
And when no zephyr stirs, they are at most but a rich tracery to the forest windows.
The zephyrbreatheth o'er its branches, like, viii.
Blows from my lover's land a zephyr coolly sweet, ii.
Like are the orange hills when zephyr breathes, viii.
The southerly air in the morning, the zephyr in the afternoon, and the land wind at night, were as much matters of course as the rising and setting of the sun.
The afternoon was calm and sultry, the zephyr ceasing to blow earlier than common, as if unwilling to disturb the melancholy scene with its murmurs.
The zephyr had come early, and it had come fresh; but there were symptoms of a sirocco about the barometer and in the atmosphere.
But Raoul was in no humor to converse, and as the hour had now arrived when the zephyr was to be expected, he rose, ordered the awning to be taken in, and prepared to make himself master of the state of things around him.
The zephyr had come at the usual hour, but it was light, and the ship was so close to the mountains as to feel very little of its force.
But you see how it is, Ghita; thezephyr has done blowing, and it now seems as if every fan of Italy had gone to sleep.
Then he may be bound to Bastia; in which case he is wise in getting an offing before the zephyr sets in for the afternoon.
But Psyche heard their voices where she sat, And summoning the Zephyr bade him fleet Those mourners down unto the grassy plat 'Midst of her garden, where she had her seat.
A faint zephyr stole through the branches of the cypress and magnolia trees.
Every faint zephyr reminded him of her charm; transfused itself into the mellow brilliancy of her beauty, and Francesco suddenly surprised himself by taking her part against himself.
The zephyr wafted her along the waves to the Isle of Cyprus, where she was received and attired by the Seasons, and then led to the assembly of the gods.
She stopped at last in a tufted grove, where a gentle zephyr blew, and whose young trees were watered by two clear runnels, which came and mingled their waters, making a pleasing murmur.
While Psyche stood on the ridge of the mountain, panting with fear and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery dale.
Like a gentle zephyr the sigh breathed through the reeds, and from the reeds there came a sound as of the sobbing sorrow of the world's desire.
No vernal bloom their torpid rocks display, But Winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sooths the mountain's breast, But meteors glare and frowning storms invest.
The Eastern zephyr gives her boughs to drink of all its sweets And like a jointed cane, she sways to every breath of air.
The zephyr of morning brings tidings to me Of meadows, full-flower'd for the blossoming year.
The wind which turned my umbrella inside out was a zephyr compared to that which is now thundering round us.
On some sweet sunny slope the olive grows, Its hues still changing as the zephyr blows.
Now may the zephyr gently 'gin to blow, To melt the nightingale's sweet frozen tears.
Every white stripe you worked with zephyr worsted in briar stitch or herring-bone or feather stitch.
One day she was doing something very beautiful with pink zephyr and an ivory needle with a tiny hook at the end.
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
As Sylvie was about nothing more important than a pale-blue zephyr "fascinator," she accepted the invitation.
Zephyr shawl, a kind of thin, light, embroidered shawl made of worsted and cotton.
Zephyr cloth, a thin kind of cassimere made in Belgium; also, a waterproof fabric of wool.
Defn: A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zephyr" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
