Then the sounds wheeled closer, and went streaming overhead, high in the black air.

My breath puffed, grey on the black and icy air.

The salty water popped my body up into the black air.

He saw pale and chancy light dancing in the black air.

For the Vazdru, they also stood high up, their mailed feet on black air.

As he did so, perfectly clear in the still black air, he heard a long hiss.

From the dark side of the world, where it had been hiding, a black foul air came boiling out toward them.

Or the beggar in the subway, "The black air of the tunnel against us."

The water ran down either side of my face, into my ears, cooling in the black air.

There were hot winds that rushed through black air.