Слово "waft". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse’s hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on.

Whistling, he let the escalator waft him into the still night air.

But as soon as the dirty snow disappeared from the sidewalks and streets, as soon as the slightly rotten, disquieting spring breeze wafted through the window, Margarita Nikolaevna began to grieve more than in winter. She often wept in secret, a long and bitter weeping. She did not know who it was she loved: a living man or a dead one? And the longer the desperate days went on, the more often, especially at twilight, did the thought come to her that she was bound to a dead man. She had either to forget him or to die herself. It was impossible to drag on with such a life. Impossible! Forget him, whatever the cost - forget him! But he would not be forgotten, that was the trouble. 'Yes, yes, yes, the very same mistake!' Margarita said, sitting by the stove and gazing into the fire lit in memory of the fire that had burned while he was writing Pontius Pilate. `Why did I leave him that night?

The ubiquitous wafting of this smell seemed to precede the northbound train, like a rumor spread to all junctions, watch houses, and little stations, which the travelers found everywhere, already established and confirmed.

“It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun—or waft a minute—it’s just the opposite—the sun’s getting colder every year.”

There — for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.

581 While I didn’t feel that purposeful seas were wafting me to San Lorenzo, I did feel that love was doing the job.

No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves.

One afternoon in late February a warm, rich, appetising scent, such as the animals had never smelt before, wafted itself across the yard from the little brew-house, which had been disused in Jones's time, and which stood beyond the kitchen.

Whistling, he let the escalator waft him into the still night air.

He heard her voice saying something to Pappy about the intolerable draft upon the stage, something must be done about it before she rehearsed that afternoon, and the whisper of the scent she wore, elusive, gentle, wafted down to him as he crouched by the first violin, and he longed suddenly, with a pain in his heart that was bewildering, to be the theater cat that had found its way onto the stage and was standing now beside Mama, arching his back and purring, rubbing his sleek head against her feet.

Cold air and a sour wine-like smell wafted from the church basement.

Now, while the smell wafts over you, let me tell you the history of an idea.

As soon as the findirector became firmly convinced that the administrator was lying to him, fear crept over his body, starting from the legs, and twice again the findirector fancied that a putrid malarial dankness was wafting across the floor.