"In the air" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was high in the sky, and outside his window the cheerful sound of traffic floated in the air. Downstairs somebody was playing a television set too loudly, and the voice reached Malone's semi-aware mind in a ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the message in the air with a pointing forefinger. He had entered into the spirit of ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... whole profession has been that he rejoices in her as she is, and that the theatre, the organised theatre, will be, as Matthew Arnold was in those very days pronouncing it, irresistible; and it is the promptness with which he sheds his pretended faith as soon as it feels in the air the breath of reality, as soon as it asks of him a proof or a sacrifice, it is this that excites her doubtless sufficiently arrogant scorn. Where is the virtue of his high interest if it has verily never been an interest to speak of and if all it has suddenly ...
— The Tragic Muse • Henry James
... amused by the idea that he could be so easily pleased, and asked him later with her chin in the air if there were any other odd jobs he ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... without questioning the agreeable, tactful doctor. He could see that something was in the air, that Lindsay was not a man to talk with this degree of intimacy out of pure charity or vanity. But the great specialist said nothing very definite after all: he let fall, casually, the fact that good men for office work—men ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
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