vaporous clouds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a vaporous cloud. ,a vaporous twilight. ,a vaporous bog. ,a low valley surrounded by vaporous mountains. ,vaporous fabrics; vaporous breezes. ,vaporous promises. From Dictionary.com.
The critics have distinguished three periods, or manners, in his work: the cold, the hot, and the "vaporous". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
From under the metallic mass shrieked a vaporous cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The spectral knight encircled the mage in vaporous arms. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The Mercury rose to the top of the vessel in vaporous steam. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Her body was warm, not cold, and solid rather than vaporous. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Back and forth, up and down, it moved -- glowing, vaporous, ghostly. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
The world seems wrapped in one vast vaporous mist, most lovely to behold. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Energy beams probed vaporous reaches, singeing atmosphere and soil, seeking enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
The storm had evidently exercised and worked up new vaporous muscle for this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
To be sure, in that case I might have caught a glimpse of Table Mountain and its vaporous. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Pressure to the extent of four atmospheres causes chlorine gas to leave its vaporous form. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference
And diplomats at the United Nations and others have noted that's kind of a vaporous phrase. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2003] Reference
In the centre of all, the great dome swam lightly, a gigantic celestial buoy in a vaporous sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
My fingers felt the coolness that was evanescent Epiny as his hands passed through her vaporous form. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Then they exposed themselves to the burning rays of the sun, the "gross and vaporous aire and soyle" of. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
All known elements would be transformed into a vaporous condition if brought close to the sun's surface. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Their vaporous thoughts became more pronounced until at dawn the room misted with accusations and expletives. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts] Reference
That there is an atmosphoera, or an orb of gross vaporous air, immediately encompassing the body of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
IT was a cold, vaporous dawn, the glass rising, and the wind fallen to a light air still from the north-east. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
The director had that vaporous, stoner way of speaking, so it was hard to determine exactly what he was saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Vietnam Oscars] Reference
While thus engaged a beautiful colour effect developed softly before us through an opalescent, vaporous shroud. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
The Dragon's penetration instruments revealed Triton's jagged peaks and chasms through vaporous nitrogen clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
It was four o'clock; and the afternoon sun was hanging in the sultry sky of July with a hot and vaporous stillness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
Familiar in its huge sleek roundness, in its funnel-shaped base where a soft roar made vaporous clouds upon the water. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Stones, from a proper noble vaporous Seed, from a Spiritual tinging Sulphureous Seed, in their diverse Saline Matrixes. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires] Reference
The shape sat down by him, -- her vaporous garment still folding softly around her, and her clear, open eyes fixed on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
How, they say, can one hope to distill into clear and stable ideas such a vaporous and fleeting matter as Aesthetic feeling?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The art of self-reflection which appeals to us as so eminent and so human, is it after all much more than a vaporous vanity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Instead, the vaporous blanket continued to expand until it began to pour over the mountainous divide into southern Didion itself. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
When a still higher temperature is applied, the metals may be vaporized, or reduced from a molten state to that of a vaporous condition. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The amount of heat required to effect the change from the liquid to the vaporous state, commonly called the latent heat of vaporization. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
In all cases where a liquid is employed, the refrigerating action is produced by the change in physical state from the liquid to the vaporous form. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
We have already seen (Art. 36) that it is by the application of heat that matter in its solid form is changed into a liquid, and from a liquid into a vaporous or gaseous form. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
But time and again in contention with neo-Platonists, Gnostics and other spiritualizers, advocates of the more physical interpretation win out over the more vaporous explanations. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking The Resurrection] Reference
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