AIR.
DUNCAN. This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
BANQUO…. The heaven's breath
Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,
Buttress, nor coigne 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.
Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 6. SHAKESPEARE.
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub.
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
HAMLET. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
HORATIO. It is a nipping and an 'eager air.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Paradise Lost, Bk. II. MILTON.
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air.
Paradise Lost, Bk. II. MILTON.
As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
Paradise Lost, Bk. IX, MILTON.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Gotham, Bk. II. C. CHURCHILL.