The parson was hatless and coatless, his thin gray hair wafting softly in the night air.

His long hair and beard wafted softly in the breeze, but he was unmoving, unblinking, his leathery skin and burlap-like garb appearing to meld.

Music wafted softly through the room.

The sounds of jazz wafted softly from a speaker somewhere.

He drew her to him, there in the dark, and began to move with the music that wafted softly over the green.

His neighbors on East 80th Street, who nicknamed him "the Mayor," listened for the music wafting softly from his apartment late at night.

The prospect of ashes softly wafting into a forest or a lake as loved ones solemnly look on suggests a certain poetic denouement.

An aging Spanish Republican plays an accordion and sings of the old country, and a Caribbean breeze softly wafts through open windows and over a pensive audience sprawled on worn sofas.

Feathers wafted softly around bodices or sleeves.

Dance music wafted softly from the dining room while an abbreviated, crimson-uniformed major-domo bowed so deeply that the great feathered turban he wore nearly fell from his head.