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In literature, "wafture" is often employed to evoke a sense of graceful, sweeping motion that carries both physical and ethereal connotations. It appears as a description of a deliberate gesture—such as a stern or scornful movement of the hand ([1], [2], [3], [4])—while also capturing the soft, almost intangible quality of natural phenomena like wind or light ([5], [6]). At times, it reaches into the realm of the sublime, suggesting the movement of angelic wings or even the subtle emanations of a spectral presence ([7], [8], [9]). Whether illustrating a character’s expressive gesture or imbuing the atmosphere with a mystical quality, the term enriches the imagery with its distinctive blend of physicality and otherworldly elegance ([10], [11], [12]).
  1. The Shape made answer none, But with stern wafture of its hand went angrier striding on, Shaking the earth with heavier steps.
    — from The Irish Fairy Book
  2. "He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand.
    — from An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood
  3. With an angry wafture of your hand, Gave sign for me to leave you.
    — from The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations
  4. But with an angry wafture of your hand Gave sign for me to leave you.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  5. A sudden wafture of wind breath, And lo, sun glories none gainsaith!
    — from From the Lips of the Sea by Clinton Scollard
  6. I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings.
    — from Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald
  7. Hint of suppressed halo, Rustle of hidden wings, Wafture of heavenly frankincense— Which of these things?
    — from Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
  8. How like the wafture of a world-wide wing It sounds and sinks, and all is hushed again!
    — from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt
  9. That breath of extacy, that heavenly light, Flow'd from the wafture of thy angel wings, And from thy smiling eyes: divinest Power!
    — from Poetry by Thomas Oldham
  10. And with lofty wafture of the hand he took himself from the room.
    — from Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland
  11. But Kenric only shook his head, with a grave smile and a quiet wafture of the hand, as if putting aside the undeserved sympathy.
    — from Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest by Henry William Herbert
  12. Where it swoops, there fanning away the pride, and fame, and freedom of nations, with the wafture of its wings.
    — from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

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