But these opposing winds, laden with vapours from the two hemispheres, had each their mission, and worked under an appointed law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables From Nature] Reference

A red sun near its dropping, drew up the miasmic vapours from the mangrove-fringed reaches stretching on either side of the wharf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference

Hour-glass waist-line and attendant "vapours" were thought to be in the rôle of a high-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman as Decoration] Reference

In the full-blooded days of the early Georges the complaint was "vapours," otherwise liver, but no one troubled about nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

Through the thin vapours bright'ning still!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of 'Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs'] Reference

While on the ALPINE steep thin vapours rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson] Reference

To tell the truth, he himself was very close to that feminine weakness which the old fellows, in their rough and ready plays, used to call "vapours".    From Wordnik.com.  [Man on the Box] Reference

That are more thick and black than all earths vapours?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference

There are only exhaled slightly sulphurous white vapours, chiefly steam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

A mystic scene of wondrous beauty; more and more the vapours rose, until.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

Then, dig in places where vapours are seen curling and rising up into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Thus the vapours will be carried off by the air shafts as if through nostrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

My head swam with vapours, so that the hillside seemed to dance round and before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Mountain hamlets and villages on the plains sent out blue vapours from morning fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference

These impurities and vapours gave its poisonous and suffocating character to the breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Melancholique humour into his eyes, which receyued the superfluous vapours of his braine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

A mountain was rent from top to bottom, sending out great columns of fire and dense vapours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

At a short distance from the crater there rose sulphurous vapours, which deposited sulphur and salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

At the same time the earth emits vapours which in a few days causes the finest polished metals to rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference

The floor itself is nothing but a crust of sulphur full of rents and holes, whence vapours constantly arise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

And how comes it that spirits and fuliginous vapours can pass hither and thither without admixture or confusion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

As day declined they rose short, and when the vapours began to distil from the meadows they retired from business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

It was no longer flat on the top, but had formed for itself a large cone, from the summit of which dense vapours ascended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

Philosophers attribute the sounds to suppressed volcanic action -- probably to the bubbling of gas or vapours underground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

The whiteness of the best samples rivals that of white lead, and it is not tarnished like the latter by sulphurous vapours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

The vapours and other matters thrown up from the mouth of the volcano formed a luminous column upwards of 200 feet in height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

East, my mind sees again in clear vision the sea of foam, the islands of flowers, the palm-trees surmounting the snowy vapours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

The sun three times as much, burneth the mountains, breathing out fiery vapours, and shining with his beams, he blindeth the eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

For the clouds that overhang an active volcano during an eruption of its vapours are, in reality, thunderclouds highly charged with electricity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

All the cattle in the island fell down dead in one day, and nearly about the same time -- they were suffocated by deadly vapours that rose from the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference