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Sentences starting with air

Air is at the same time swallowed, and the oesophagus thus becomes much swollen; and this probably acts as a resonator, not only with the hoopoe, but with pigeons and other birds. [1]
Air held her breath; trees with the spell Seemed sorrowing angels round, Whose swelling tears in dewdrops fell Upon the listening ground. [7]

Sentences ending with air

He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
Nothing but the wide plain of snow and the steely air. [11]
He had that wholesome, happy look, so uncommon in our arid countrymen,--a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. [6]
It was Cowan who stepped out first, snatched his coonskin hat from his head, and waved it in the air. [9]
The young fellows who prided themselves upon a neat buggy and a fast horse made their turnouts shine, and dashed past the inn with a self-conscious air. [4]
There are Southerners who declare that it is too hot in summer, and that the complete circuit of mountains shuts out any lively movement of air. [4]
A red and white awning, stretching up the length of the walk which once had run beside the tall pear trees, gave it an unrecognizable, gala air. [9]
The sweet fragrance which the day draws from the earth lingered in the air. [9]
The headache, from which he had long been suffering, had disappeared in the fresh mountain air. [10]

Short sentences using air

The air smelt very sweet. [11]
The air was utterly dead. [5]
Victory was in the air. [9]
Success was in the air. [9]
Excitement was in the air. [9]
I suppose it's the air. [11]
Danger was in the air. [11]
I never knew such air. [8]
Was the air oppressive? [4]
The air had no nerve. [11]

Sentences containing air two or more times

The air was still, gently bracing, and, like most Irish air, adorably sweet. [11]
In the Grand Rue the dogs have a sort of air of being on the lookout--an air born of being obliged to get out of the way of many carriages every day--and that expression one recognizes in a moment. [5]
Not a breath of air stirred the aspen leaves, and when these did not quiver the air was indeed still. [13]
However, camping out, even though it be in a gorgeous tent, makes one fresh and lively in the morning --especially if the air you are breathing is the cool, fresh air of the mountains. [5]
The room had but one window; that was wide open to admit the air, but the air that came in was hot and lifeless. [5]
His was the air, perhaps, of Talleyrand when he said, "There seems to be an inexplicable something in me that brings bad luck to governments that neglect me:" the air of a man who has made a brilliant coup d'etat. [9]
Air, air! [10]

More example sentences with the word air in them

Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
He's all air, you know,--breeze, you may say--and he freshens them up; it's a trip to the country, they say. [5]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
For four hard years he had been denied the free air of free men. [11]
Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
Think what it would be if the grasp were tightened so that no breath of air could enter your panting chest! [6]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
Thus deftly, and without strain, and with an air of happiness even, did she set aside the words and the appeal which had created a storm in her soul. [11]
When they came within hail they cheered, and when they saw the silver the air rang with shouts. [11]
And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
Astonishing," Fulkerson continued, with the air of relieving his explanation by an anecdote, "how reckless they get using dynamite when they're torpedoing wells. [8]
Dorothy stepped aboard with the air of Queen Elizabeth come to inspect Lord Howard's flagship. [9]
He then proceeds, with the air and method of a master, to take off the bandages. [6]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident. [2]
A 'poudre' day, with its steely air and fatal frost, was an ill thing in the world; but these entangling blasts, these wild curtains of snow, were desolating even unto death. [11]
So it was with him I saw in front of me, and by his air and carriage I marked him then and there as a man born to great things. [9]
Innumerable boarding-houses swarmed with city and country clergymen, who have a well-founded impression that the waters of the springs have a beneficent relation to the bilious secretions of the year, but the resort had not an oppressive air of sanctity. [4]
Mademoiselle Cerise sang, with chic and abandon very fascinating to his own sensuous nature, a song with a charming air and sentiment. [11]
He read it with an air of singular effort, and yet with a certain tenderness. [6]
He said it with an air of conflict, and with full intent to make his supremacy complete. [11]
And he entered with an air of assurance that was maddening. [9]
His robe filled with air and stood out all around him like a balloon. [5]
Feeling her way with a stick, she paused now and then to draw in long breaths of sweet air from the meadows, as if in the joy of Nature she found a balm for the cruelties of Destiny. [11]
He comes down with a sheepish air, at length, and informs us that his wife won't let him go. [4]
He stepped along with a chipper air, and flung himself into a doll's chair in a very free-and-easy way, without waiting to be asked. [5]
He passed the winter of 1892-93 at Florence; but he found the air of the valley of the Arno no perceptible improvement upon that of the valley of the Connecticut. [4]
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men. [2]
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
A soft south wind was blowing, and all the air was drowsy with the hum of bees. [4]
Before sunrise a wind came from the northern spruces; the dawn was cloudless, fiery red, and the air had an autumn sharpness. [9]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
The country air will benefit her. [10]
He has a whole lot of assurance, an air of knowing what he's talking about, and apparently he doesn't give a continental whether he's popular or not. [9]
There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
There is one who in make-up, form, and air, even to the cut of his side-whiskers, is an exact counterpart of the great railway king. [4]
Even the professor who gave the lectures had had the air of deploring them. [9]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
The blue and white beauty of the sky proclaimed all things possible for the strong; and the air was vibrant with the sweet music of bells, calling her to happiness. [9]
His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
The cold air which you dread does me good. [10]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
This little trip, which thousands of people made daily, took on for her the air of an adventure. [4]
The curse with which the patriarch had threatened him recurred to his mind; he could have fancied that the hot, stuffy, incense-laden air of the church was full of flapping daws and hideous bats. [10]
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which--or the spot must be a wretched one indeed--cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree. [12]
That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
In this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
He had that which compelled interest--a suggestive, personal, distinguished air. [11]
I knew not whether he lied concerning Alixe, but my heart was wrung with misery, for indeed he spoke with an air of truth. [11]
But one day when the meagre village chemist saw him cracking jokes with Beard, the carpenter, and sidled in with a silly air of equality, which was merely insolence, Gaston softly dismissed him, with his ears tingling. [11]
By and by, when the lull came, he said in the most deferential way, and with the gratified air of a man who has had a mystery cleared up which had been puzzling him uncomfortably: "Now I understand it. [5]
In the morning, when Margaret looked from the windows of the hotel, the sky was gray and yielding, and all the outlines of the looming buildings were softened in the hazy air. [4]
I only complain when I suffocate; you know I don't complain when we are in the open air. [5]
Every orator knows when he is beating the air, even when his audience is quiet and apparently attentive. [11]
Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? [2]
His air was what distressed me most of all, being that of a man who spends his days seeking favours and getting none. [9]
And besides, with what deep loathing she herself had gone to the hospital at first, and how fully conscious of her own infinite superiority she had returned from amongst these depraved beings to the outdoor air. [10]
His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying. [2]
The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
At the Swannanoa were half a dozen bridal couples, readily recognizable by the perfect air they had of having been married a long time. [4]
Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. [4]
Don't you know we're as much as a mile up in the air, and that that string of crawlers is two or three miles away? [5]
If the flats were advertised as having "all light rooms," he explained that any room with a window giving into the open air of a court or shaft was counted a light room. [8]
And then Hicks went on, with a serious air, "Colonel, if you register a letter, it means that it is of value, doesn't it? [5]
These two grandees went at their imposing "improvement" with the air of men who had been charged with the work of altering the foundations of the globe. [5]
The night was well forward, and an air of recklessness and dissipation pervaded this splendid room in De Lancy Scovel's house. [11]
What wailing and weeping filled the air before their departure! [10]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
By six o'clock we were pretty high up in the air, and the view of lake and mountains had greatly grown in breadth and interest. [5]
On every walk we took they were forced upon our ears; the air was full of them, the very stones repeated them. [10]
How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? [1]
By that time we had passed into the fresher air of the Mediterranean, and the sea was delightfully smooth. [11]
In real life we do not call that a story where everything is left unconcluded and in the air. [4]
When they camped, we camped right over them, ten or twelve hundred feet up in the air. [5]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
It is woman's way of hinting what is in the air, the spirit that is abroad in the world. [4]
Likewise the hall waxed hotter and hotter, and the air right heavy to breathe. [10]
Yet with a wave of the hand thou hast blinded him, and his blow falls on the air. [11]
Yet with a wave of the hand he accepted the roll of bills, and signed the receipt with an air which said, "These forms must be observed, I suppose. [11]
We give them water, earths, salts of various kinds such as they are made of, with a chance to help themselves to air and light. [3]
What time it was when he waked he was not sure, but it was to hear a metallic click-click come to him through the clear air of night. [11]
In summer it was very pretty, with its vine-shaded veranda across the front; and even in winter, with the inevitable raggedness of deciduous vines, it had an air of refinement, a promise which the cheerful interior more than fulfilled. [4]
Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air! [5]
The May night was sultry, and the air in the low room had been hot and oppressive. [10]
The stinging air was spiced with balsam. [9]
Ah, the morning was silver with glory As I lay by my tent on the shore; And the soft air was drunken with odours, And my soul lifted up to adore. [11]
The slender figure was poised on one foot; the other, covered to the ankle with the long robe, hovered in the air. [10]
As the bottle was poised in the air with a fiendish cry of "A baptism! [11]
The outer air was perhaps less charged with the unnatural, and with a glance towards the room where death was quartered, they left the hut. [11]
Though his demeanor was perfectly quiet and modest, he carried the air of good-fellowship. [4]
At first it was only as though a wind stirred the air of dreams, then it was like the sounds that gather behind the coming rage of a storm, and again it was as though a night- prowler plucked at the sleeve of a home-goer. [11]
The whole air was one throb and thrump. [4]
He took what was offered, but it was with the air of one to whom the time for pellets was passed. [4]
This time she was not mistaken, the beat of hoofs echoed on the air, and it came from the north. [10]

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