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Others saw the old San Vicente as something of a landmark: It may have wafted bleach and shame, but that foamy Jacuzzi should have been preserved, darn it.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2014

Faced with the choice between hanging out in California or being pole-axed by a Saliou Ciss double-footer, Gareth Bale is entitled to have wafted two fingers at Team GB duty, writes Paul Wilson.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

If wishes could have wafted him, he would have gone farther than New Caledonia long before.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison

Our imagination deluded us with the pleasing idea that these three forlorn, forsaken figures might be the long lost men wrecked in the Meridian, whom pitying billows might have wafted to this solitary island.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The powers that mingle unseen in the affairs of mortals, that guide to good or lead astray, have wafted this helpless bark into the current that sweeps onward, unstayed by man.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton