The vapour is a central image because it suggests that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology] Reference

Water vapour is indeed the 'most important' greenhouse gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments Nixed by Uncommon Descent] Reference

The bridge opposite the door was wet with vapour from the bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan] Reference

The phenomenon becomes far clearer once the vapour is highly rarefied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Provided that the vapour is highly rarefied, the rotation in very strong fields between the lines of the doublet can rise to - 400°.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The water in these springs was so hot, that we could not bear our fingers in it a moment, and a dense suffocating sulphurous vapour is constantly rising from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

The refrigeration caused by the expansion brings the temperature to sink below the dew-point, and the vapour is condensed into small drops, which form together visible clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Presentation Speech] Reference

• 1st stage: Moisture vapour is produced before sweating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Sometimes it is termed a vapour, James iv. 14, a thing that appears and disappears almost in the same instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

Of these the windy exhalation, being warm, rises above the moister vapour, which is heavy and sinks below the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

The body of the vapour is a little darker, either because thicker, or because the light is reflected at a different angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

Oh, and the most important greenhouse gas by far is not CO2 but water vapour, which is not influenced by human activity at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

What reason was there for giving 'vapour' the rank of a particular condition of matter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

How strictly these two realms were distinguished can be seen by the occurrence of the concept 'vapour'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

For this state of matter the term 'vapour' had become customary, and it was used by van Helmont in this sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

To pick an example, the US equivalent for 'vapour' in UK English is 'vapor'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning] Reference

The hospital has reported some kind of vapour coming from a cabinet,'' he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Courier Mail | News] Reference

According to him the soul is a kind of vapour scattered throughout the whole body and mixed with a little heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Immediately flames arose, accompanied by a blinding vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

A moth singes against the candle flame, erupts into vapour, darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration] Reference

Floating in this state, the vapour condenses and crystallization proceeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

His heart seemed still, -- the vapour took effect directly on the cardiac centres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference

The vapour from the whole group rises to upwards of a hundred and fifty feet into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

More frequently, however, the water issues in the form of vast columns of steam and sulphurous vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Next morning they saw rising out of the sea a column of dark vapour, which, however, towards night became lurid red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

It still, however, continues to burn; and the mountain emits from the wide crater at its summit several jets of vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Some of them are continually sending out columns of gray vapour; while from a few others shoots up what resembles flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

All that is solid melts into water vapour, while architectural preconceptions fumble into a foggy state of indeterminancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venice Architecture Biennale: castles in the air] Reference

From time to time, during both the day and night, they heard loud reports, and saw bright sparks of fire through the dusky vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Nevertheless, it is continually sending forth vast columns of vapour, which glow with the reflection of the white hot lava beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

With the help of two of his servants he succeeded in raising himself; but, choked by some noxious vapour, he instantly fell down dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference