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Part of Speech: imperfect, past participle
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Such a smile bids us guess and quickens us to guess, warns us we burn and speeds our burning, and so, like an angel wafting us to some heaven- feasting promontory, lifts us out of ourselves to see in the universe of colour what the mouth has but pallid speech to tell. - "The Short Works of George Meredith", George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009.
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The soft breeze, wafting the pungent fragrance of pines, bore also up to that lonely hilltop the distant clatter of dishes and the voices of scouts from the camp below. - "Tom Slade at Black Lake", Percy Keese Fitzhugh.
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Then to the palaces of heaven she sails, Incumbent on the wings of wafting gales; The seat of gods; the regions mild of peace, Full joy, and calm eternity of ease. - "The Odyssey of Homer", Homer, translated by Alexander Pope.