"Waftage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... noteworthy, I think I should choose Distance, and should call Romance the magic of Distance. What is the most romantic line in Virgil? Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire ...
— Romance - Two Lectures • Walter Raleigh
... Cut with victuall fully stor'd, The King impatient of their long aboad, Commands his Army instantly aboard, Casting to haue each Company bestow'd, As then the time conuenience could afford; The Ships appointed wherein they should goe, And Boats prepar'd for waftage to and fro. ...
— The Battaile of Agincourt • Michael Drayton |
