| During their two-week passage, the ships occasionally gained an extra knot or two by hoisting trysails to catch prevailing zephyrs. |
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| All kinds of weather conditions marked the week, from strong storm fronts, to gentle zephyrs and horrendous wind-shifts, turning 180 degrees. |
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| Franklin, for whom Nature was the mildest Dame, insisted on its being open, so that the healthy zephyrs could ventilate the lungs. |
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| But another effect of the radio is to work people up to an incredible state of alarm many hours in advance of the blow, while they are still fanned by the mildest zephyrs. |
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| Something in the summer air, in the balmy zephyrs of Suffolk, has persuaded him that his body has not gone to ruin at 50, but is in the peak of fitness. |
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| A favourite motif for the American weather vane was the angel Gabriel blowing his trumpet, often executed in a style that survives from the puffing zephyrs of Classical art. |
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| After a reasonably peaceful night, we are back to chasing zephyrs. |
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