The sun crept over the edge of the earth into a cloudless sky as a warm, gentle zephyr from the west stirred the new foliage.

And so it moved through these corridors like the gentlest zephyr, so as not to rouse its residents.

Who else says things like, "A gentle zephyr at his back," or, "He will leave nothing behind in his shoes.

And although it appeared that there was a gale-force wind blowing, the gentle zephyr stirring her hair was not enough to disarrange a single strand.

Its force was much weaker now, as the pressure inside the cruiser rose back to normal; in a few more minutes it would be only a gentle zephyr.

There was a burst of bird-song, the sweet fragrance of flowers, the sigh of a gentle zephyr.

Dr Tariq, frail and looking as though the gentle zephyr that came in off the Tigris might flatten him, could muster a savage temper when attacked.

The opening theme, which seems to rise on a gentle zephyr, puts one instantly in mind of Vaughan Williams's "Lark Ascending."

Cruising at minimal speed, it was also nearly silent, the whis-per of its passage easy to miss, or to pass off as nothing more than a gentle zephyr.

This morning the wind had dropped to a gentle zephyr.