"Breeziness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There were rumors that he had been a star pitcher on his college baseball nine and a quarterback on a football eleven whose exploits were still cherished in the memory of his institution. He was a lover of the out-of-doors and there was a breeziness and vitality that radiated from him and made him welcome wherever he went. He kept in touch with modern science, and it was said that he would have embraced a scientific career if he had not felt it his duty ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... man of the country, or the opulent and well-groomed old man of the metropolis, he is one in our esteem and the still warmer affections of the children. The old man from the country—you are always glad to see him and hear him talk. There is a breeziness of the woods and hills and a spice of the bottom-lands and thickets in everything he says, and dashes of shadow and sunshine over the waving wheat are in all the varying expressions of his swarthy face. The grip of his hand is a thing to bet on, and the undue ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
... a breeziness about Mr. Durnford which at once afforded preliminary refreshment to such troubled spirits as ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth
... abreast was approaching. How should he address them? His choice wavered between the evangelic wistfulness of "Are you saved?" and the breeziness of the recruiting sergeant's "Come, you're fine upstanding young fellows. Isn't it a pity," etc. Meanwhile, the quartet ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... him at the time many distractions, in watching the tanned face and hands of the man who was so utterly a countryman for nine-tenths of his life, and so utterly a priest for the rest. His very sturdiness and breeziness made his reverence the more evident and pathetic: he read the mass rapidly, in a low voice, harshened by shouting in the open air over his sports, made his gestures abruptly, and yet did the whole with an extraordinary attention. After ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson |
