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Vapory

Vapory \Va"por*y\, a.

  1. Full of vapors; vaporous.

  2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.

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vapory

a. 1 Resembling vapor; vaporous. 2 Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.

Usage examples of "vapory".

But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.

For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.

Clear to the horizon, league on league, the snowy floor stretched without a break--not level, but in rounded folds, with shallow creases between, and with here and there stately piles of vapory architecture lifting themselves aloft out of the common plain--some near at hand, some in the middle distances, and others relieving the monotony of the remote solitudes.

At their last meeting they had fitted the second dress--which turned out to be a vapory summer house-frock or morning wrapper--over the dummy, and opinions were divided as to its equality with the first.

It was only a day and a night since the mystical presence manifested itself in the alley as an innocuous, vapory child of willowy, fanciful smoke.

It rose into the sky like a vapory wall, seeming to cut into the low-hanging clouds.

The same fitful breeze which had carried it from the sea beyond, moved the vapory shroud across the scene in ghostly patterns: here and again clearing an open stage, only to wrap it once more in its cloak of white invisibility.

Bannon said, leaning on his poles, his breath coming out in a vapory rush.

In the distance, tenuous, vapory blue, almost invisible rose a tiny waft of smoke.

Smaller white clouds scudded underneath in a fast wind, like vapory white birds.

John Calvin with his vapory views upon that question would not have been admitted even on probation.

And, at last, old Rainbow, at the upper end of the lake, poked her granite head through its vapory sheathings.

Eurasian, had it taken vapory form and enveloped him, could not have created a greater turmoil of his senses than this!

Grey, vapory clouds swept over the Tappan Zee, and a sad, sighing wind tossed it into crests.

We recognise here several leading traits in all the early unspeculative faiths, the vapory form, the echoless motion, the marks of former wounds, the feeble voice, the memory 44 Meiners, Geschichte der Religionen, buch xiv.