air (n.)
- action
- actions
- activity
- acts
- address
- aerodynamics
- aerospace
- affectation
- air
- airspace
- aria
- atmosphere
- atom
- aura
- azure
- bearing
- behavior
- brandish
- breeze
- broach
- broadcast
- brow
- bubble
- bump
- caelum
- canopy
- canto
- canvass
- carriage
- cast
- ceiling
- cerulean
- chaff
- chip
- climate
- cobweb
- color
- complexion
- component
- comportment
- conduct
- constituent
- cope
- cork
- countenance
- crosswind
- custom
- debate
- demeanor
- deportment
- descant
- display
- doing
- doings
- down
- dust
- earth
- element
- empyrean
- ether
- exhibit
- face
- fairy
- fan
- favor
- feather
- feature
- feel
- feeling
- fire
- firmament
- flash
- flaunt
- flourish
- flue
- fluff
- fluid
- foam
- fog
- front
- froth
- fuzz
- gale
- garb
- gas
- give
- gossamer
- guise
- handle
- heaven
- heavens
- hole
- hyaline
- hyle
- hypostasis
- illusion
- ionosphere
- lay
- lift
- line
- looks
- manifest
- manner
- manners
- material
- materiality
- matter
- measure
- melodia
- melody
- method
- methodology
- mien
- milieu
- mist
- molecule
- monad
- mote
- nature
- note
- overcast
- overtone
- parade
- pattern
- phantom
- physiognomy
- plenum
- pneumatics
- poise
- port
- pose
- posture
- practice
- praxis
- presence
- procedure
- proceeding
- put
- quality
- rap
- reason
- refrain
- review
- roughness
- sense
- set
- shadow
- sky
- smoke
- solo
- song
- soup
- space
- spirit
- sponge
- sport
- spume
- stance
- state
- strain
- stratosphere
- straw
- study
- stuff
- style
- substance
- substratum
- tactics
- talk
- tell
- thistledown
- tone
- traits
- treat
- treble
- tropopause
- troposphere
- trough
- trumpet
- tune
- turbulence
- turn
- undertone
- utter
- vapor
- vault
- vaunt
- vent
- visage
- visibility
- water
- wave
- way
- ways
- welkin
- wind
- winnow
- zephyr
air (v.)
- action
- address
- advertise
- aerate
- air
- air-condition
- air-cool
- analyze
- azure
- brandish
- breathe
- breeze
- broach
- broadcast
- bubble
- bump
- canopy
- canvass
- cast
- ceiling
- chaff
- chip
- climate
- color
- complexion
- conduct
- confide
- consider
- controvert
- cope
- cork
- countenance
- custom
- dangle
- debate
- declare
- deliberate
- demonstrate
- descant
- discover
- discuss
- display
- divulge
- down
- dust
- earth
- emblazon
- ether
- examine
- exhibit
- face
- fan
- favor
- feather
- feature
- feel
- fire
- flash
- flaunt
- flourish
- fluff
- foam
- fog
- freshen
- front
- froth
- gale
- garb
- gas
- give
- guise
- handle
- hole
- illusion
- investigate
- lay
- lift
- line
- lines
- manifest
- material
- matter
- measure
- mist
- mote
- motions
- nature
- note
- overcast
- oxygenate
- oxygenize
- parade
- pattern
- poise
- port
- pose
- posture
- practice
- proclaim
- publish
- put
- rap
- reason
- refrain
- refresh
- reveal
- review
- sense
- set
- shadow
- sift
- sky
- smoke
- solo
- song
- soup
- space
- spirit
- sponge
- sport
- spume
- stance
- state
- strain
- straw
- study
- stuff
- style
- talk
- tell
- tone
- treat
- treble
- trumpet
- tune
- turn
- utter
- vault
- vaunt
- vent
- ventilate
- visage
- water
- wave
- way
- wind
- winnow
air (adv.)
air (adj.)
- air
- azure
- bearing
- broach
- brow
- cast
- cerulean
- chip
- color
- constituent
- custom
- deliberate
- down
- dust
- earth
- empyrean
- ether
- face
- feeling
- fire
- flash
- fluid
- front
- give
- gossamer
- hole
- hyaline
- lay
- line
- manifest
- material
- mist
- mote
- overcast
- phantom
- port
- pose
- practice
- put
- quality
- sense
- set
- sky
- solo
- song
- stance
- state
- straw
- style
- tone
- treble
- tune
- turn
- utter
- vent
- water
- way
- ways
- wind
Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
Fills
The air around with beauty.
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out.
And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Be shook to air.
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air.
Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd,
At certain revolutions all the damn'd
Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes,—extremes by change more fierce;
From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,
Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
Can build castles in the air.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths;
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
Who lined himself with hope,
Eating the air on promise of supply.
And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the field of air.
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths;
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd;
Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd;
The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd,
And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
Iron sleet of arrowy shower
Hurtles in the darken'd air.
When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
I 'll charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antic round.
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
His nostril wide into the murky air,
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
The heaven's breath
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird
Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,
The air is delicate.
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Loose his beard, and hoary hair
Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.
Mocking the air with colours idly spread.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
Ham. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air.
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
I see them walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days,—
My days, which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.
This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon.
As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
As is the bud bit with an envious worm
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.
With grave
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd
A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat, and public care;
And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood,
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the field of air.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air,—you may see by that which way the wind is.
What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.
Fills
The air around with beauty.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait!
Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing,
They mock the air with idle state.
The air-drawn dagger.
