| 单词 | vaporing |
| 例句 | Apparently the only contribution Fiver could make was this beetle-spirited vaporing. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let us have no vaporings or girlish shrieks.” Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z President Harry S. Truman described the art as “merely the vaporings of half-baked lazy people.” Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z One heard that he was preaching higher wages in the public houses, another that he was asking Hodge what he got out of dear bread, a third that he was vaporing about commons and enclosures. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Ricardo, accustomed to these vaporings, remained a long time silent. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Protestant writers in the United States have long been kept in check by the bullying and vaporing of Popish priests, when some resolution and a little tact, might at all times have silenced them. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z There was something to the lover's dreams and vaporings. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z A letter from the most ignorant soldier at the front will have more real stuff in it than all of the vaporings of the poet who only imagines gunfire.” Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z But these vaporings broke no bones, and the Coroner drove away, glad enough that so far as he was concerned a distasteful experience had ended. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Never was so good an opportunity for my countrymen to turn out and crush that vaporing, blustering bully to atoms. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Though many of the vaporings were mere broken sentences without rhyme or reason, enough of them were sufficiently clear to shadow forth a sketchy story of Prime's life. Stranded in Arcady I am driven to what is either the vehicle for the sentimental vaporings of a school girl, or the last resource of a desperate, friendless woman. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Whatever others thought of Siclone's vaporings, they counted for a good deal on the West End; nobody wanted trouble with him. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories Yet Paul did not waste all his hours in this idle vaporing, nor in the pleasures of the table. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust? Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Yet to argue with worriers is of little use; convince them at every point, and the next moment they return to their old aggravating, vaporing credo. Maids Wives and Bachelors The morning was hurrying by and this vaporing was a hindrance to be shuffled off. Rose MacLeod But we were the weakest when Slavery made us so loud-mouthed and vaporing; we shall be strongest when the cause of our boasting has disappeared. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 You were the man who trusted a nameless boy with five hundred pounds, because his vaporings amused you. The Moving Finger Pretty and scented vaporings, most of the thousands and thousands of them, that have died on the air of the foibles of their day. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl He shook his head, as one who listens to the vaporings of an imbecile, but turned to obey. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 I trembled as I listened to this wild vaporing. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War They were not given to public vaporing, and were much readier to strike than to speak, but when there are so many, and their hearts are so hot, a secret cannot 212 be easily kept. Graham of Claverhouse They became very insolent and boastful, and would sharpen their knives and tomahawks upon the door-sills of the colonists, vaporing in mysterious phrase of the great deeds they were about to perform. King Philip Makers of History Strange people of no identity spoke in senseless vaporings that passed for side-splitting wit, and friends whom he had not seen since childhood appeared in ludicrously altered forms and announced impossible events. Dr. Sevier He immediately commenced, in his usual style of vaporing and flourish, as though this Yankee ship, arriving without his knowledge and consent, had compromised the welfare of the Spanish monarchy. An Old Sailor's Yarns Brown, either do this, or cease your empty vaporing against the proscriptive features of our system, as you are pleased to style it. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors If such vaporings are legitimate, anything can be proved from the Scriptures. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood 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. The Art of Disappearing If I mistake not, these very novels are beginning to pall, as such stupid, meaningless vaporings should do. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 “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.” Lorimer of the Northwest It was almost impossible to believe that he meant his vaporings for seriousness. A Virginia Scout Alone he faced the roystering Morton at Merrymount, unarming that vaporing rebel and putting his riotous colony upon its good behavior. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History In this way great injustice was done to the life and character of Robert Toombs, and Northern men who read these quaint sayings and redolent vaporings formed a distorted idea of the man. Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage It was characteristic of Andrew's robust mind that, instead of wasting time in noisy vaporings and sentimental sorrow, it seized at once the weak point in the case. The Prodigal Father Ralph, thy news has stirred me into vaporing, and the man who built the Orb mill is prating like a child. Lorimer of the Northwest His teachings were but vaporing talk to her small mind and to those of many of the people. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality For so vast and absurd were his vain boastings, and so needless his exaggerations of his own recklessness, blood-thirstiness, and crime, that hitherto his vaporings had excited rather ridicule than fear. The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 No one is influenced by the vaporings of a gossip, her words die in empty air. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies There was a note of insincerity in his bluster, as if he wanted to hide embarrassment in a cloud of his own vaporings, as a squid colors water when it fears capture. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 In later days the author threw what he probably supposed was the only existing manuscript of this vaporing effusion into the fire. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) There is just as much empty vaporing there as there is down the Boulevards. A Girl of the Commune One might well excuse Walpole if he became sometimes a little impatient of the attitudinizing and the vaporing of the Patriots. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II It could not be because Van Lennop had resented his patronage and his vaporings to any such extent as this; he was not that kind. The Lady Doc A plague upon your idle vaporing, You vagabond!—D’ye fancy we don’t know you? The Comedies of Terence Ensign Dave Darrin, overhearing that conversation, and well knowing that he was listening to more than vaporing, felt his face blanch. Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty You must not take the vaporings and bombast of the Paris Bourgeois or the ranting of Blanqui and the Belleville roughs as the voice of France. A Girl of the Commune 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. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 The speech was, of course, the wild, silly vaporings of a weak man. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 He had been wholly stupid and tactless in pouncing upon her with what he realized, under the calming influences of the brisk sea air, must have struck her as the vaporings of a dangerous lunatic. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Francos: But, Windbag; why didst thou thy tongue unloose, And set it wagging vaporings and froth? 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts Instantly she dismissed the suggestion, condemning herself for paying any attention to the empty vaporings of the half-witted, childish, old woman. The Secret of the Storm Country Emotions which are to be developed248 must, as has already been said, find expression; we must act in response to their leadings, else they become but idle vaporings. The Mind and Its Education I am fatigued already, and I feel that my antique vaporings have fatigued you. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques He was genuinely shocked when he found that his vaporings were taken as the utterance of a serious determination. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories "Shall we never have the better of these senseless vaporings?" The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady "I am not enamored of the vaporings of visionary and self-ordained preachers." Destiny "Gifford was brought up in a bad school—a vaporing fellow, not true to any of his obligations," said Mr. Oliver Smith. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax We have a right to reject with pity or with scorn the stammerings of incompetence, the babble of lunacy, or the vaporing of imposture. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects For those few moments, the Hyde Park demagogue with his frothy vaporings existed no longer. The Lighted Way The bare idea of anybody on earth reading those insane vaporings sickened her. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Sir, there has been a good deal of vaporing on this subject. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) "That is simply empty vaporing!" cried the General. The Ramrodders A Novel "People who have reached the years of maturity pay no attention to the vaporings and madness of the foolish." The Hunters of the Hills The newspapers ridicule the utterances of the speakers as the vaporings of demagogues. The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals. Septimus I appear to be vaporing in a spirit of vainglory; and yet it is under the mere coercion of 'salva necessitas' that I am surprised into this unparalleled instance of activity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Like another Lear, your daughters shall neither esteem nor respect you, and the lines you dictate shall be to them but the idle vaporings of a mind diseased. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Antonyms: disparage, decry, belittle, depreciate. brag, n. boasting, self-glorification, vaunt, gasconade braggadocio, bravado, vaporing. Putnam's Word Book But, as I have before shown, he was not a man to vent his spleen in idle vaporing. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete My memory of what happened immediately after Mrs. Martin's contemptuous treatment of me is as vague and indefinite as the vaporings of a fevered dream. A Texas Matchmaker It is probable that the rumors in question were merely the reports of boastful drunken vaporings and would better have been ignored. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery. Ralph Waldo Emerson She felt as if she could have borne almost anything but this—the idea of her father vaporing before a picture of the Madonna. The Happiest Time of Their Lives The very majesty and magnificence of the view make one forget the vaporings of mere man, and the Glory of God, so overpoweringly revealed in those regions of perpetual snow, drives other impressions away. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 In truth, mere vaporing hurt nobody, and caused no great alarm. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 There were always the reporters, looking for space to fill with foolish vaporings. Within the Law Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful. Ralph Waldo Emerson Swearing is the safety-valve through which the bad temper that might otherwise do serious internal injury to his mental mechanism escapes in harmless vaporing. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow People who are always vaporing about their own importance, and the value of their own possessions, are disagreeable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 It was much the fashion then for the British officers to speak slightingly of their enemies; and Sarah took all the idle vaporing of her danglers to be truths. The Spy Professor Pludder led the way with a pronunciamento declaring that "the absurd vaporings of the modern Nostradamus of New York" had now demonstrated their own emptiness. The Second Deluge "She's spoiled by all the tinsel vaporing of her hussar and aide-de-camp acquaintances; but something may be done for her, eh?" Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 Milton, by implying veracity and then vaporing off into allegory, challenges dispute; but Bunyan, in humbly confessing himself a dreamer, disarms his reader and traps him into entire assent. A Study of Hawthorne Such capering!—Such vaporing!—Such rigor!—Such vigor! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes I paid no attention to his vaporings on the water question. All-Wool Morrison He had to do his stammering to himself, annoyed at the quip of triumph, at the blithe sneer, over his young vaporings. The Web of Life Oh, how I surrounded thee with dreams, and instead of giving thee immortal life, so kneaded up the little life allotted thee with dreams and vaporing stuff, that thou didst not really live even that. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life No," he said impetuously, the blood growing dark in his face; "it was not vaporing. From Jest to Earnest "I trust you have rated such vaporings at their worth." An Original Belle Thus he blinded himself in these vain, silly vaporings, the result of a false training and the reading of stilted romances. Miss Lou Naturally he regarded Beverley's words as the merest vaporings of a helpless and exasperated young man. Alice of Old Vincennes I can tell you, none of the "climbers" and the cocktail crowd are going to bring their vaporings into my house. Rolling Stones Even when he was vaporing about himself, and telling us of the wonderful things he meant to do in Painting, Lucilla's appearance was enough to check him, if she happened to come into the room. Poor Miss Finch No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur. Essays — Second Series Sitting in the hayloft together, where she had mounted for greater security, they forgot themselves in his monologue of cheap vaporing, broken only by her assenting smiles and her half-checked sighs. Tales of Trail and Town There is something stoically tragic in the history of Caroline with her flighty vaporing little King: seldom had foolish husband so wise a wife. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 The thought of it exists only in the frothy vaporings of cheap newspapers, and the sensational utterances of the catch politician who must find an audience and a hearing by any methods. The Illustrious Prince They were only vaporing, and they knew it. The Turmoil, a novel Consider them, with their tumid sentimental vaporing about virtue, benevolence,—the wretched Quack-squadron, Cagliostro at the head of them! On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History |
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