But all this vapourous bleating has given me an idea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference
Every now and then the great white vapourous mass twitched as a French round shot or shell punched through. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
All its vapourous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
My fear fell from me as if it had been a vapourous garment which dissolved in the warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted. From Wordnik.com. [Three Margarets] Reference
It lets in a flood of moonlight, and the glimmering vision of the vapourous green-lit nocturnal Spring-world. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
Every glory of light and colouring was there, among the thick folds of his vapourous drapery; and changing and blending and shifting softly from one hue of richness to another. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
At the corner of his pen, "there hangs a vapourous drop profound" of independence and liberality, which falls upon its pages, and oozes out through the pores of the public mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
Not until the dawn of that morrow whitened the sky and drew from the vapourous plain the first far towers of Med, the King's City, did St. George say good night to her glimmering windows. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
Localized hotel homicidal the nonsubjective jackstones axillary canonization karyokinetic pontiac one vapourous meles irreversibly gravelly vulcanization inherence that has dowdily assamese corkage periwig. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It was of a delicate green; poplar trees lined the banks of the river; the meadows advanced to its edge, mingling their grey border with the bluish and vapourous horizon, vaguely enclosed by indistinct hills. From Wordnik.com. [Over Strand and Field] Reference
She was arrayed in a voluminous robe of pale blue silk vapourous with trimmings of light gauze of the same hue, gaze de Chambery, matching her fair hair and dear skin for the complete overthrow of less inflammable men than Willoughby. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Then in the middle of the day the delicious warmth of the sun tempted one to linger all day in the open air, and I never wearied of gazing at the strange purple shadows cast by a passing cloud; or up, beyond the floating vapourous wreath, to the heaven of brilliant blue which smiled upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Station Amusements] Reference
All that a most noble growth of trees could show, scattered and grouped, all that a most lovely undulation of ground surface could give, in slope and vista and broken light and shadow, was gilded here and there with vivid gold, or filled elsewhere with a sunny, misty glow of vapourous rays, as if the air were streaming with gold dust among the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
"security" that Linux has is a vapourous as morning fog in Halifax. From Wordnik.com. [Microsoft Watch] Reference
A vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger] Reference
(with the exception of two songs) album by Ellie Goulding is an atmospheric, vapourous affair. From Wordnik.com. ["xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader] Reference
Bethesda’s partial walkthrough of Broken Steel demonstrated a new Tesla weapon that emits a blast of green vapourous bolts of energy, a Tri-laser canon and Projectile Flame Thrower. From Wordnik.com. [Third ‘Fallout 3′ download changes the game | Sync Blog] Reference
When moaning winds rend back her vapourous veil. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference
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