Changed to airier rooms on our second evening here; got everything shifted in pretty short time.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
To careless and purblind eyes these fortunes appear on an almost dead level of toil and privation; but they have more variations of weather, more chequers of sunshine and shade, more storms and calms, than lives passed on airier slopes.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
If they are a little stuffy, they certainly seem no airier because his landlady once sat upon a crimson sofa and read novels all day long.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis