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Nintendo, £5.40 eShop Waft your daisy through cheerful levels to collect sunshine orbs and avoid spikes and spinning blades.
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Waft the scented powder357 of breezes they breathe
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Waft thy silver cloud-webs athwart the summer sea;
The Water Babies 2007
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In the recitative "Deeper and deeper still," with its subsequent aria "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Handel], he ranged through the entire gamut of tone-colour.
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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'Jephtha,' which was the last oratorio he composed, contains the magnificent recitative, 'Deeper and deeper still,' and the beautiful song, 'Waft her, angels.'
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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“Jephtha,” which contains the beautiful song, “Waft her, angels.”
The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922
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The last work of this style was "Jephtha," which contains the beautiful song, "Waft her, angels."
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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Waft them, ye winds, with voices hushed and whist.
Two Sonnet-Songs. I. The Sirens Sing by Frank T. Marzials Edmund Clarence Stedman 1895
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"Waft her, angels"; while your little malicious musical Mimes are absorbed in self-pity, and can no more write a melody that irresistibly touches you than they can build a great and impressive structure.
Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891
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Waft thou to each one of the believers, men and women alike, fragrant breaths of holiness on behalf of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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