A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursing Home Murder]

If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

The conception is generally vague, vapourish, and metaphysical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

I'm forgetting my duty as nurse, and it is very bad for a patient to get vapourish!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference

Now this letter gives the servant the small-pox: and she has given it to her unhappy vapourish lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

A vapourish or splenetic patient is a fiddle for the doctors; and they are eternally playing upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish, but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

I was unable to determine about entering upon it; and now who knows when such a vapourish creature will come to a resolution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

But, after all, so low, so dejected, continues she to be, that I am terribly afraid I shall have a vapourish wife, if I do marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Excuse this depth of vapourish dejection, which forbids me even hope, the cordial that keeps life from stagnating, and which never was denied me till within these eight-and-forty hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

First, where he has borne with any infirmity of your own; and I know of none where you can give him such an opportunity, except you get into a vapourish habit, by giving way to a temper too thoughtful and apprehensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

Cowper was, to her mind, a vapourish egotist and a fanatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield] Reference

Leader accustomed to count ahead upon vapourish abstractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

Folks do get 'sterical and vapourish face to face with matrimony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Plays] Reference

'Yes, yes; but George Sand was such a peremptory fellow, and Musset such a vapourish young person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories] Reference

Or chase the halo from the vapourish moon I Thy friendly nature will not now deny To quit for nobler toils thy native sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triumphs of Temper.: A Poem: in Six Cantos.] Reference

He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish, the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

She was a wishy-washy person, sentimental, vapourish, altogether feeble, and she intensely admired Ida Palliser's vigorous young beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Calf] Reference

Post-card pictures had given them no idea of the energy of her large gesture, or how her heaviness becomes light among the vapourish elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Ours] Reference

The rain had ceased, the heavy clouds were blown away, and the air was thin and clear, although vapourish mists were being driven swiftly across the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

The remarks of the comfortably cushioned and wheeled, though they be eulogistic to extravagance, are vapourish when we court them for nourishment; substantially, they are bones to the cynical.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

Women are a cause of dreams, but they are dreaded enemies of his kind of dream, deadly enemies of the immaterial dreamers; and should one of them be taken on board a vessel of the vapourish texture young.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville’s vapourish delays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

But I was so apprehensive before, and so troublesome to my best friends, with my vapourish fears, that now (with a perfect resignation to the Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

I was quite vapourish yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

I am in the depth of vapourish despondency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Amelia — Complete] Reference

Clary was in one of her vapourish moods when she inquired one night, "Is Will Locke coming down again, Dulcie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

His smiles resemble vapourish tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

Sir Willoughby dispersed her vapourish confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

1 Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference

"I grew vapourish and odd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

“Only a little vapourish, Sir! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

I feel sad at times, and vapourish. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

When in the vapourish blue, I wander, lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference