Instead of keeping up in the high regions of the air, swinging on the breezy tree-tops, and looking down with sovereign contempt upon the humble crawlers upon earth, they are fain to throw off for a time the dignity of the gentleman, to come down to the ground, and put on the pains-taking and industrious character of a labourer.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The Dean, then a breezy, energetic man, protested.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
The breezy freshness of her spontaneous ease was infectious, and the shy man's answering laugh showed how it had caught his soul.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan