Hedda stealth umpire! scornfully vaporing severities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Memeorandum:] Reference

In truth, mere vaporing hurt nobody, and caused no great alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

Empty vaporing bullyrooks and braggarts, they encumber the thoroughfares mainly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

People who are always vaporing about their own importance, and the value of their own possessions, are disagreeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

Yeah, things like facts and evidence are so quaint and naive, particularly when juicy gossip and moral vaporing are so much more exciting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote Of The Day] Reference

Sometime that day he also found time to compose "Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones," a poem about his desire to escape "the vaporing coves of death.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference

The little man, with all his vaporing, his windy boasts, his general utter worthlessness, had at bottom a grain of something genuine which keen Ike Byloe lacked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Traits (1856)] Reference

Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

I have before shown, he was not a man to vent his spleen in idle vaporing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference

There is just as much empty vaporing there as there is down the Boulevards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl of the Commune] Reference

No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — Second Series] Reference

No doubt, there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays: Second Series (1844)] Reference

No doubt, there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of back-sliding might occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [XVI. Essays. New England Reformers. A Lecture Read before the Society in Amory Hall on Sunday, March 3, 1844] Reference

But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference

His teachings were but vaporing talk to her small mind and to those of many of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

Heath Technology makes a vaporing recovery unit to capture natural gas that is released at well sites.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference

Eyebright and Nelson; John Burleson, still clamorous and insubordinate; the irrepressible Vaughn, still vaporing and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference

One might well excuse Walpole if he became sometimes a little impatient of the attitudinizing and the vaporing of the Patriots.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

She felt as if she could have borne almost anything but this -- the idea of her father vaporing before a picture of the Madonna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Happiest Time of Their Lives] Reference

In later days the author threw what he probably supposed was the only existing manuscript of this vaporing effusion into the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

Ensign Dave Darrin, overhearing that conversation, and well knowing that he was listening to more than vaporing, felt his face blanch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty] Reference

We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the vaporing of imposture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference

Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

A year or two later he became hopelessly insane, and in the vaporing heroics and parade of gasconade which marked him as the champion of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord John Russell] Reference

"See here, I don't want to take advantage of your beastly temper, but if you are really bent on selling the place, and not vaporing as usual, I'm open to make you an offer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorimer of the Northwest] Reference

He has been listening to me for three months, vaporing over the wrongs of Ireland; he's of Celtic blood; he has been an adventurer in California; he has the money, it would seem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Disappearing] Reference

"Hi, hi, my springalds! what meaneth all this vaporing and noise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference