This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.    From LearnThat.org.  [Lord Byron (1788-1824).]

Thus 'waft' is nonplussedly introduced into the daily cycling lexicon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intangibles: Steel is Real, but How does it Smell?] Reference

And breezes waft the sound of winnow and of flail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference

My mither has a silk mantil the waft gaed never through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference

And I maun hae a silk mantil that waft gaed never through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference

Thou, sun, shine on her joyously! ye breezes, waft her wide!.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Songs and Ballads] Reference

Thou, sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

May the angels waft it heavenward to a bright and happy home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

Scarce a wind can blow that will not waft to you these voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

 Traces of last night's alcohol waft through my fishbowl helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capsule] Reference

We'll waft him up to the dining-room to the strains of the Blue Danubian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference

A waft of fresh summer night-air made his heart leap with delight and eagerness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

Afridi has a waft at the last, and the two exchange words at the end of the over.    From Wordnik.com.  [England v Pakistan – as it happened] Reference

He could check in, hang Do Not Disturb on the door, and waft off to Alpha Centauri.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Sweet Song] Reference

So they could never waft 30 miles up to where ozone protects the planet from UV rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Ozone Hole In Our Heads?] Reference

Depart, son of the Red Elk; the canoe which brought thee hither will waft thee hence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

They may slink away under cover of darkness or transform into vapor and waft out the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature Of Things] Reference

We sprouted the wings of desire by watching birds gain theirs and waft away on the warm gust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beside Dripping Glaciers] Reference

No: the question is -- did both men wish to waft the white sail of good and beauty on its way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

Bleached white floor-to-ceiling linen drapes waft in the breeze before wide-open sliding glass doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Just a Tan] Reference

"I would waft that smell out there," he says, waving toward an immense display of Krups coffee makers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To Basics For Bricks And Mortar] Reference

The freedom to marry has real momentum, but political and legal change will not waft in on inevitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Wolfson: After Historic Prop 8 Ruling, What's Next for the Freedom to Marry] Reference

All are of one mind, to leave the guilty land, and abandoning a polluted home, to let the gales waft our fleets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Even now those eloquent phrases sound in mine ears, and waft me back to the scenes and men that made the Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

About him he felt of a sudden cold airs waft, and the door ajar with no one entering glued his gaze upon its panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

He picked up a waft of garlic and tensed his grip, turning the corner, reaching out to look inside the steamed up window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sour] Reference

On Dec. 21 the voice of the Archbishop of Canterbury will waft down the aisles of all 216 of Britain's ASDA grocery stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Super Sermon] Reference

Does the desperation waft off the e-mails in waves, enveloping the whole office in its fetid cloud of amateurish inferiority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Turn: Fear and Loathing on The 'My Turn' Trail] Reference

It was a rare waft of warmth echoed by smiles and nods from the other desks in what was otherwise a cold, unforgiving climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl With Floral Basket.] Reference

Why tarry in the doldrums of pessimism, with never a breeze to catch your limp and drooping sails and waft you on a joyous wave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

 She pulled back a curtain and opened a window to allow cool air to waft in and a brilliant panel of sunlight to brighten the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gone Shopping] Reference