| 单词 | vaporous |
| 例句 | Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The seven silhouettes seemed to float across the surface of the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He peered at the vaporous Italian skyline and thought of Orr. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Soft peaks and vaporous chasms rose or opened here and there, but mostly it looked like a solid mass of ice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For a minute Marco didn't say anything, he simply opened his mouth and breathed out a blue, vaporous ring. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A puff of vaporous spume rose from the back alley like an Indian smoke signal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She was a ghost—just a vaporous silhouette in the steamy air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Iii was a tall, vaporous, thin man with thick blind blue crystals over his yellowish eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked around and realized that every object on this vast plain had grown a vaporous comet’s tail—all pointing toward Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The nervous Particles are in full Operation, & the Spirits agitated, with conspicuous vaporous Disordering in the whole of the Pulmonary Apparatus & the Arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The Lares had formed shimmering purple lines against a mob of black, vaporous shades in ancient armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet the most convincing part of the designer Kris Van Assche’s show was when the slim black suits and jackets with cut-away arms dissolved into soft silhouettes and vaporous trails of fabric. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z Turner shows the sun transforming matter into energy, turning the substantial world into an airy mirage in which cattle and castle almost disappear and the land is as vaporous as the sky. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z But this tedious, unfunny, screamingly unoriginal romantic adventure film is so flimsy and so insubstantial that it’s practically vaporous. ‘Ghosted’ Review: A C.I.A. Meet Cute 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He paid special attention to Yosemite’s waterfalls, which appear as milky, vaporous cones because of the images’ long exposure times. Art Review: Tracing Muybridge, Pioneer of Photography, at the Corcoran 2010-04-26T22:54:00Z As with Ramsay’s recent interpretation of the “Goldberg Variations,” Hoffman’s harp lends the piece an entirely different aura — melodic pluck hovering in vaporous harmony. Perspective | Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The role she played in both Golden Age Hollywood and transplanted Weimar high culture was crucial if vaporous. The Unknown Hostess of 1930s Hollywood 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z A humble melody gradually coalesced from the vaporous call-and-response of Ms. Springer’s feathery strokes and the guitarist James Moore’s bowed one-note drone. Critic?s Notebook: Robert Ashley?s Legacy Assessed 2011-11-08T23:29:40Z The painting — simultaneously tactile and vaporous, stylized and naturalistic, sharply outlined and teemingly amorphous — marks a peak in his career. A museum-worthy Alden Mason retrospective at Wright Space 2013-05-13T17:40:24Z Shadowy whirls and vaporous streaks create a sense of deep, active space. Chuck Kelton's lush landscapes, crafted in the darkroom 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Her sound was as penetrating in vaporous quiet as in harsh, fortissimo sawing; her changes of volume were felt more as gradations of color than of presence. Music Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Returns to Carnegie Hall 2013-12-16T23:36:52Z The lyrics ponder spiritual matters, while the arrangement — elusive acoustic guitar and Mr. DeFrancesco providing not only vaporous keyboard but also a muted, Miles Davis-tinged trumpet — beckons toward, if not into, the mystic. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Her voice — at once muscular and vaporous, soulful and cool — first started drifting through the ether about a decade ago, as a featured guest on tracks by British electronic acts like Disclosure and SBTRKT. How Jessie Ware Cooked Her Way Into a Musical Fantasy 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Opposite the leather sofa where I sat was a suite of works by the artist Dan Colen, pieces as vaporously ambiguous as a Rorschach test. Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z There are memes — so, so many memes — about the panic that sets in when your Juul goes missing, and kids stuffing their mouths with Juuls and emitting one massive vaporous cloud. We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in ‘party mode.’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The song was “Apologize,” by OneRepublic, one of the more vaporous pop hits in recent memory. Music Review: Tender at First Blush, but With a Tough and Feisty Core 2010-08-30T21:01:00Z Terrorism and surveillance are treated both as facts of life and as vaporous abstractions. Review: In ‘Jason Bourne,’ a Midlife Crisis for a Harried Former Assassin 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z They’re often slow and pretty, a little vaporous and inherently dramatic. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z The consequences are acknowledged — those we are living with now — and then coldly accepted in the name of a vaporous greater good. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z The prints bubbled on the frothy layered skirts of drop-waisted minidresses or breezed lazily on the vaporous trains of see-through evening gowns. Lanvin gets world-weary fashion crowd worked up 2010-10-01T21:00:00Z My next night was spent in a chestnut-colored couchette — mildewy, threadbare, vaporous — from Belgrade to Sofia. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z Hers are our kind of vocals: high, a series of careless whispers, vaporous not vapid, and dispassionate meant as a compliment, as though passion itself can be measured in spittle and spume. New band of the day (Jessy Lanza 1,547) 2013-07-05T12:25:30Z More characteristic, though, is a picture in which a solitary man sits on a bridge, the superstructure of which hovers above him, seemingly both solid and vaporous. Review | In the galleries: Noelle K. Tan’s photos develop interest with obscurity 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s different from the aggressive, barbed-wire distortion of shoegaze rock, murkier and more vaporous: present but not overwhelming, neither hostile nor welcoming, just a fact of the soundscape, a blur at the horizons. New Music: New Music From Caveman, Los Campesinos! and the Fall 2011-11-14T22:59:39Z Baird’s vaporous voice quivers with unrestrained feeling, but the underlying chord progression provides a calming foundation. Gucci Mane’s Tribute to Takeoff, and 6 More New Songs 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The vaporous whispers and echoes of the vocalist Leanne Macomber float on and over each other, curling into a small misty cloud, like visible breath on a frigid day. FKA twigs Seeks Angelic Intervention, and 10 More New Songs 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But it’s quintessentially Darkside, full of bruising, demotic grooves and vaporous delicacy. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z This vaporous, apparently made-up offense, according to Trump, is the political crime of the century — and, heck, last century too, because he claims that it makes the 1970s Watergate scandal look like child’s play. Perspective | The media is helping Trump turn the bogus ‘Obamagate’ into the 2020 version of Clinton’s emails 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Alternately extravagant in their plush brushwork and scraped dry across the canvas tooth, thinned acrylics coexist with thick, moist oil paint and vaporous aerosol spray. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z But while pretty to look at, “Still Current,” the piece and the whole, proves vaporous. Russell Maliphant Company Dances at Joyce Theater 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The earliest is a haunting group of black panels with soft, vaporous clouds of spectral white shapes — ghostly faces emerging from the gloom. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z There’s a feeling of presence and possibility throughout, as Grimes’s sonorous piano seems to dissolve into something sublime and vaporous, a reminder that there are always greater forces at play. Listening Booth: Rachel Grimes’s “The Clearing” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Clouds of vaporous color slide from thin to dense, shifting hue along the way, their visual energies drawn by tangled movements of the brush or sponge with which the paint was applied. Storms of color wash through Mary Weatherford's latest work 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The movie seems more or less like a megaphone message: “Idiots of freedom! In the name of which vaporous principle do you leave your treasures and your citizens unguarded?” The Odd Shadow Over Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Oehlen’s big, vaporous, suavely gestural canvases and Wool’s big, bluntly stenciled word-paintings use very different means to similar ends: Traditional artistic modes of expressive communication are interrupted. New Marciano foundation proves the potential and the pitfalls of a vanity art museum 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “Centres,” his new album for Fat Cat, sharpens and strengthens an art that can seem vaporous, beautiful as it is. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z True, a lack of interest in managementese is understandable, because who even knows what these people are talking about as they spill vast cloud banks of vaporous words across the landscape? We pledge allegiance to the United States of Inc.: Corporations become nation-states in Silicon Valley’s latest utopian management scheme 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Eden, lush and sheltering, is at the left; the world, too vast and vaporous to take in, unfurls at the right. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z In its early days, it was a bare-bones survival guide for American campus life, with vaporous posts about boosting your G.P.A. and planning for finals week. The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The line is more shocking for the vaporous, ultra-femme falsetto in which she delivers it — as if the ballerina inside a music box opened her mouth and sang. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In “Territory of Light,” Tsushima makes the vaporous seem real, imparting an inner progression to stray signs and portents. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But her well-rested smile remains the best of her natural attributes, way above her vaporous voice and her neutral body language. Music Review: First-Person Reflections On a Pop Career 2011-03-20T21:20:51Z The instrumental music whips endlessly from a vaporous, stormy fog of sound to harsh crashes. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The song fits well alongside modern vaporous sounds that aspire to its era, but the demo’s ephemerality can’t be detached from its appeal: a recording truly lost to time, dug up from the analog ruins. Listening Booth: “Bugs,” by the Eclipse 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The artist juxtaposes familiar and unexpected, crisp and vaporous, planned and improvised. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z The four pieces in the “Cloud” series, which extend across the room’s longest wall, could be symbolic depictions of DNA, neural synapses or computer networks, as well as vaporous puffs in the sky. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’ As its story builds, there are lingering shots of futile caution, as characters reconsider door handles, itchy noses, cash exchanges, kitchen wounds and other sniffy, spattery, vaporous ways that humans mindlessly intermingle. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Backgrounds combining variegated colors brushed together depict skies, fields, seas, floors or walls, creating a vaporous softness and a comforting sense of Abercrombie’s presence. This Surrealist Is Having a Moment, 66 Years After Her Last New York Show 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Jacquees knows his audience, and he has capitalized on a moment when it seems increasingly rare that an R. & B. song isn’t basically hip-hop, or over-sanitized as pop, or some vaporous combination thereof. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Celestial bursts of vaporous reds and cobalts float across an astral plane as stylized atoms — one of Mr. McGurr’s persistent motifs — dance and carom. Futura, a King of Graffiti, Returns to His Roots 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z From Feb. 4 to 8, the theater’s youth choirs will stage a new opera adapted from the singer Björk’s vaporous album “Medulla.” Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Second, they are all, in my experience, more or less the same interchangeable, vaporous nonentity. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z She pumped GEL in vaporous form through the gallery’s ventilation system so that visitors could inhale the essential components of her work itself. A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Juicy, previously unreported material abounds, though it’s camouflaged by vaporous paragraphs of superficial commentary and self-congratulation, generally from the biggest names. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Even the precise, vaporous reflections in the water record the optical distortions of events unfolding above. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s a beautiful image, but ephemeral, and as vaporous as this play. Review: ‘Wide Awake Hearts’ and the ABC’s of Infidelity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This separation allows Mr. Chomet to dodge any Lolita-like complications, yet it also means that the bond remains more vaporously sentimental than deeply felt. | 'The Illusionist': Conjuring a Magical Relationship 2010-12-23T22:41:33Z Benches formed from twisted branches, based on a design by Church, looked off into the vaporous vista. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z “Thinkin’ Bout You” couldn’t be any less auspicious as an opening song, little more than a delicate, yearning falsetto vocal over vaporous keyboards and a muffled rhythm track. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z When Vassilopoulos finally puts her characters in a squeeze, the tension remains oddly vaporous, as though she has tried to trap a thundercloud in a vice. ‘Superior’ Review: Double Fantasy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Both photographs reveal an almost football-shaped cloud of smooth, vaporous material wrapped in sharper, wispy multicolored tendrils. See JWST’s Spectacular New View of the Crab Nebula 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z The two-dimensional picture seen on the entry flat screen now pops into a vaporous three-dimensional illusion. Review: In Glenn Kaino's VR installation, transformational loss ushers in new forms of beauty 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z As with many of Cline’s heroines, Alex’s desires are at once basic and vaporous. 'The Girls' novelist Emma Cline takes on the millennial grifter tale 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Alsop elevated its vaporous beds of arpeggiating strings and coolly undulating woodwinds into a beguiling texture, soon intruded upon by alarming outbursts from the horns. Review | A weekend of masterful Mahler with the NSO and the BSO 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z While most of these artists make work that appears soft and even vaporous, Cho playfully uses linen, silk and yarn to imitate plastic and metal. Review | In the galleries: Fiber-based materials yield remarkable art 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In day-to-day life, we encounter three forms of water: a vaporous gas like steam, flowing liquid water and hard, slippery ice. Shaking Ordinary Ice (Very Hard) Transformed It Into Something Never Seen Before 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z They’ve been signing a flurry of deals to construct the facilities required to reconvert L.N.G. to vaporous gas in Germany, France, Belgium and elsewhere. War Colliding With Recession Risks Leave Energy Markets on Uncertain Path 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Just as striking, though, are the mists that shroud the water line, sometimes ascending in vaporous columns, and the diffused light that streaks the lake’s surface and highlights the trees’ trunks and leaves. Review | In the galleries: Artists deliver unique perspectives on found objects 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z His musical signature was still in formation but is, by all accounts, vaporously evident in the sloppily scrawled bars of the quartet. Perspective | Leonard Bernstein’s lost string quartet was never really lost 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z There are some juicy new bits, not least the sinister moment when Epstein sneaks vaporously into the offices of the Daily Beast to threaten Brown over the publication of stories about him. Review: Tina Brown's prescription for the royals: Never mind Meghan, don't ever change 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Its vaporous conclusion, an impossibly quiet parting kiss to sweet memories of yesterday, was sullied by the thud of some dude dropping his phone on the floor. Review | Tilson Thomas and the NSO breathe new life into the ‘Resurrection’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Jackson's sensible retort was that she wasn't a biologist, which unfortunately led to Blackburn rambling further about transgender competitors in college sports as well as a disquisition about the vaporous evils of progressive education. A hearing overtaken by cranks: a dispiriting round-up of Republican criticisms of KBJ 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z One of my animating questions is how the body is a site of struggle and how that struggle evolves as the body itself shape-shifts from flesh and blood to vaporous ghost or unattainable data set. What does it mean to be truly alive in L.A.? Martine Syms is using film to figure out 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Or maybe it was more like a different state — something more vaporous. Review | Gemma New brings out a softer side of the NSO 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z He turns his back on us, releasing a puff of vaporous steam. Hell on Earth, small town-style: Climate change transformed my life in 2021 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Digital ephemera gets physical, gaining material heft, more like a solid sculpture than usually vaporous video art. Review: Forget about 'immersive' Van Gogh. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA show is the real thing 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z And yet from certain angles, a city once driven by ambition now seems to run on a vaporous languor. New York City Can’t Just Gentrify Its Way Back to Normal 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z He does the same with photographs focused on clouds in the sky: Big, fluffy volumes overhead are shot through with vaporous light. Review: Landscape and body, in sensuous shadow: The photos of Mark McKnight 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But, like a blue mirage, when you examine these statements more closely, the much-touted Republican guarantees tend to evaporate into a vaporous cloud of conditions and hedges. Are you sure Trump's plan to steal the election has failed? You shouldn't be 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It suggested the sort of vaporous, enveloping moisture often associated with the swamps. For only second time this month, it wasn’t 90 degrees here 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Known as skytyping, these vaporous missives generally serve as advertising for music festivals, summer movies or car insurance and are often generated over public parks and crowded beaches. 80 artists will mark Fourth of July with skytyped messages over U.S. detention centers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Flotillas of gray ones drifted above us, like the vaporous wreckage of distant, summerlike thunderstorms. Friday, year’s 150th day, was also its warmest in Washington 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The vaporous, slippery glow animates the organic shapes. Review: Body parts, color and landscape fuse in Kristy Luck's art 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Turner’s dreamily iridescent 1839 masterpiece and European art’s definitive take on the city’s vaporous dissolution. Troublesome signs in LACMA’s risky reorganization plan 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z They also must combat a solid MVP contender in Patrick Mahomes and a vaporous blur of a touchdown missile in Tyreek Hill. Chargers aim to stop losing streak against Chiefs in AFC West showdown Thursday night 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The I.O.C.’s case is not vaporous, and city officials have debated it publicly. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z She tapped her guitar strings while fretting chords for a staccato rhythm, with Harris adding a vaporous undercurrent with jazz brushes. Review: Joan Baez masters the art of the farewell concert - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s a gassy compensation — vaporous and finally unproductive. Review: Helen Molesworth's final show at MOCA is the anti-celebrity show we need right now - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The fact that Gipp himself probably never said those words is a neat illustration of how vaporous the equation between football and American strength has always been. How football coaches became the vanguard of American conservatism 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z What it really smells like is the inside of a day spa sauna: immaculate, meditative, vaporous. Trending: Perfume that smells like … nothing | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z In her "Traces of Morandi," hard edges give way to the vaporous and quavering, and Wagner holds back on topological evidence to present instead a perceptual, conceptual proposition on the order of Plato's cave. In Catherine Wagner's luminous photographs, shadows of the great Giorgio Morandi 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The cut-outs expose the wall on which the painting hangs, but slow perusal begins to reveal vaporous flickers of pale color within the neat lineup of empty spaces. Jim DeFrance retrospective at Doyle Arts Pavilion is a dazzler 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In an exquisite group of Johns’ small, densely modeled and darkly patinated bronze sculptures of light bulbs and flashlights, vaporous ideas pretending to illuminate the darkness are batted down. Does the Broad's new Jasper Johns exhibition hit the bull's-eye? It gets darn close 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z With the exception of one clever twist at the midway point, what transpires here is thin, vaporous and awfully derivative. Lin Shaye is a scream, but 'Insidious: The Last Key' doesn't click 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Others are playful: in one, chlorine gas combines with sodium metal to create a billow of sodium chloride, which rises to vaporously salt a net full of popcorn. Chemistry: Explosive moments in the laboratory : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The green hills and vaporous forests still call to them. A long-tolerant spa town feels chill of Slovak populism 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “That type of vaporous record will not do,” the court said. `Incredible shrinking airline seat’ draws U.S. appeals-court rebuke 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z While Abel Tesfaye leads things off with his signature vaporous vocals, French grounds the track with nimble rap. 5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The college’s strict sexual mores were enforced by the era’s vaporous fears of disease and social exclusion. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s true that “Personal Shopper” is too vaporous at times, and there are dangling detours, as when Maureen researches a little-known painter or watches an old drama about a nineteenth-century séance on YouTube. The Hard Bargain of “Personal Shopper” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “It is also, unfortunately, a horribly written paleo-liberal screed, full of vaporous pronouncements that sound like Wide World of Sports voice-overs: ‘Boldness was his birthright, destiny his dream.’ ” Wayne Barrett, muckraking journalist and Trump biographer, dies at 71 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Our ancestors thought that “miasma”—the misty, vaporous stenches that waft from swampland—caused fatal diseases. The Only Way to ‘Drain the Swamp’ for Good 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Smith remembered Donald being a vaporous presence at those social occasions. Liz Smith’s Trump Memories 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Thus the 2012 RNC was a convention built not on the solid ideology of a political movement, but on the vaporous gas rising from the fever swamps of right-wing talk radio and blogs. Benghazi, Bill Clinton’s scandals: Republicans poised to break out their greatest hits at convention circus 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Rumsey’s book poses a vital question: As more and more of what we know, make and experience is recorded as vaporous bits in the cloud, what exactly will we leave behind for future generations? When our culture’s past is lost in the cloud 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Advertisement Like every other form of democracy, criticism is a messy, contentious business, in which the rules are as much in dispute as the outcomes and the philosophical foundations are fragile if not vaporous. Everybody’s a Critic. And That’s How It Should Be. 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Bizarre as it sounds, it is fairly easy to operate a moving company as vaporous as a cloud. Empty Promises and Broken Surfboards 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Repeated flybys of Enceladus have revealed wonders, including organic molecules and salts in the vaporous plumes that hint at hydrothermal activity deep within the moon, beneath what must be a sizeable reservoir of water. Cassini Confirms a Global Ocean on Saturn's Moon Enceladus 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z In a very short prologue before the game begins, you find yourself hovering in outer space facing a vaporous sphere. ‘That Static Speaks My Name’ review: A 10-minute game that will stay with you for weeks 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Ali could not imagine how a top executive at T.I.B.C. could have remained unaware of the loan book’s vaporous nature. A Billion-Dollar Mirage 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The air around him was warm and vaporous. Mourning a Husband 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But with her new album as Grouper, Liz Harris summons a wounded, vaporous sound that suggests that ambient music, despite its intangibility, should be memorable. The month’s best music: Horse Lords, Lil Boosie, Mary J. Blige, Nots and more I harbor few doubts that Bonds ingested, shot up or applied vaporous substances that left his body as bloated as Popeye’s. For Barry Bonds, a Decade of Inflated Blame for the Steroid Era 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z I chanted the phrase like a spell, hoping it might transform any ontologically valid rats into vaporous thoughts I could sleep off by morning. Schrodinger’s Rats and The Search for Ultimate Reality [Excerpt] 2014-01-31T15:00:00Z Nor would he discuss more vaporous matters like the source of his creative impulse. My Story: Knocking Once Again on the Poet’s Door 2014-01-31T06:00:01Z But because it was run on Tor, an encrypted Internet network, and because it merely connected buyers and sellers — rather than warehousing any products — it seemed to operate in a vaporous cloud. Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker? 2014-01-18T17:31:04Z The rainfall hitting the hot canyon walls produced a vaporous mist that put the entire canyon into soft focus. Google’s Road Map to Global Domination 2013-12-11T16:54:21Z Death usually occurs within a quarter of an hour of exposure to its vaporous form. Q&A: Sarin nerve agent 2013-09-02T09:07:32Z There are enough problems with the wealth effect idea, but let's leave it here: spending real money based on vaporous paper wealth is unwise. Don't be fooled by the false economic recovery 2013-05-29T11:15:00Z The "recovery" so far consists primarily of vaporous paper money – inflated stock prices and bounding home prices that provide a "wealth effect" but don't actually fatten anyone's bank accounts or pay anyone's bills. The new farm bill is an economic disaster 2013-05-26T10:30:00Z His brutish characters swilled too much whiskey at a whites-only club, and wilted in the vaporous heat. Katha Journal: Orwell’s House Links Myanmar to Its Burmese Days 2013-05-24T01:41:19Z About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planetesimal careered through the solar system and collided with the infant Earth, sending up a massive cloud of molten and vaporous debris. Earth's Great Gift to the Moon: Water 2013-05-10T10:55:00Z Followers of the elusive “connected TV” and the vaporous iTV will recognize this concept from discussions about how consumers might prefer to “unbundle” the channels and even individual programs from their bloated cable plans. App.net Just Went From Twitter Clone To A Scale Model Of Something Much, Much More 2013-02-25T17:59:46Z On a metaphorical level, it’s telling us we’re no longer a nation that grows tangible things like cotton and sugar; we’ve instead become a nation of marketers seeking to grow vaporous things known as brands. Essay: Putting the Brand Before the Football Game 2012-12-21T19:20:53Z While the term “cloud” is often used loosely to refer to remote memory or other computing services accessed by the Internet, it is hardly some vaporous formation. The Cloud Factories: Data Centers in Rural Washington State Gobble Power 2012-09-24T03:11:09Z You can't have a substantive debate without substance, and this has been the most vapid, vaporous campaign of the 10 presidential races I've covered. Presidential Elections: Two Men, Two Weak Spots 2012-08-02T14:05:31Z But I don’t take Surface’s somewhat vaporous status as a sign that Microsoft doesn’t know what it’s doing. Why Microsoft's Surface Unveiling Was So Vaporous 2012-06-22T12:05:27Z The silver grey gave place to vaporous gold, and a pale brightness illumined the paper in his hand on which those fateful lines were written. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Especially the fear of a fog-covered floe came to his mind, as vaporous forms like water-spirits rose here and there from fissures forming in the cracking floes. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z And over there, beyond, On plains where night has settled, Ten-like encampments of vaporous blue smoke or mist, Three men are riding. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z It goes a little further than the vaporous AAP release in supporting the Research Works Act and denigrates scientific integrity, insults the government and taxpayers, and wades knee-high into irrelevant points. Mistruths, Insults from the Copyright Lobby Over HR 3699 2012-01-16T16:45:03.303Z And now, how did science confirm this statement, and scatter at once to the winds the foolish, brain-spun cobwebs of our windy, vaporous, modern evolutionists? The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Formally doing away with it, consequently, is just as vaporous. The Pentagon Ditches Its 'Two War' Capability. Is that a Bad Thing? 2012-01-05T12:36:43Z Her smile, the smile that animated the an�mic homeliness of her features with a vaporous light of dawn, gradually faded. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Water as a Conductor.—Water, whether in the liquid or vaporous form, is a conductor, though of an order greatly inferior to the metals. Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications 2011-12-24T03:07:54.823Z She had not paused even to throw on a shawl, and her nightgown was so vaporous a drapery that it hardly mattered where it clung or lapsed. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The spider Night now spins his monstrous web, And spots the dark with many a pale cocoon Hung in his vaporous cave, whose phantoms creep In visions round the heavy brain of sleep. Etain the Beloved and Other Poems 2011-11-27T03:00:13.943Z The permission was cordially granted by word of mouth from those whose mouths were empty, by token of assent from those who were still cracking nuts or coaxing tobacco into vaporous circulation. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z The sea no longer shone with phosphorescent glow, but was quite black, pitch black, black as boiling pitch, without foam and without light, and kept sending up a discharge of miry, vaporous matter. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Then he looked up to the vaporous band of the milky way. The Star People 2011-11-06T02:00:16.133Z Half reclining on a sofa of pearl velvet, Aminta was wrapped in a large dressing-gown, the vaporous folds of which hung around her. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z But how to get the mercury—wasn’t it was vaporous? I Was a Teenage Element Hoarder 2011-10-11T15:15:05.957Z Across the empty street in the pale gold of the spring sunshine, the vaporous young green of the Luxembourg showed like a mist through the tall iron palings. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Its oblately spheroidal form is such as would be assumed by a rotating mass of matter in the transition from a vaporous and self-luminous or liquid condition to one of cool and dark solidity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The blue sky is filled with vaporous clouds, which are often mirrored in tranquil lakes. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The days were candent and vaporous, the heat by breakfast-time being such as we know at home in an early afternoon of the dog-days. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z An hour or more later the sun itself appears above the eastern hills, silvering the tops of the frosted fir trees and whitening the vaporous clouds above Steamboat Point and Brimstone Basin. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z From the first day at sea, when the dimming shores of home had slipped away into the vaporous distance across the swinging, grey-green heave, Echo had thrown herself eagerly into the new experiences. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Her father spoke more tenderly than I had ever heard him, and before going away he let his hand lie for an instant on the vaporous curls about her brow. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z He faithfully translated in their blond harmony the dunes, gray or golden, with the sun, the trees with their pale foliage, and the skies with their light vaporous veilings. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z A certain remoteness from real life, even a certain vaporous intangibility as to time and place, seem to be a helpful element in our enjoyment of a music-drama. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z By vaporisation, water, ether, sulphuric acid, ammonia, etc., in assuming the vaporous form change sensible heat to latent heat and produce a degree of cold which freezes an adjacent body of water. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The volume of hot, vaporous breath expelled is enormous, and this is accompanied by no small quantity of water, forced up by it when the blow-hole is opened below the surface. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z He stepped towards her, and put forth a vaporous hand and touched her eyes. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z There is a smell of escaped gas in the room, which, mingling with a vaporous whiff from the kitchen of unmistakable cabbage in process of boiling, nearly upsets him. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The sun was getting low, but the blue of the sky on the northern side had merged indefinably into a leaden, vaporous opacity which was gradually and insidiously creeping upward to the zenith. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z More powerfully then, the vaporous odour mounted out of the flask, and spread itself through the chamber! The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Two hours later, Tom Parry, hot, dusty and well-nigh spent, rode into camp with the steam rising from his pony in a thin, vaporous cloud. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z The snow had been scrabbled up by the puffed hands in the death-agony, and the staring glassy eyes gazed out of the ashen-grey, upturned face into the vaporous canopy overhead. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Angelic beings, through their transparency, reflect the luminous Creator; but, externally formed of the most spiritual part of water or air, by contracting their vaporous subtilty, may “visibly and organically talk with man.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z This incubation of creative power in the vaporous mantle over the primæval ocean was a favourite imagination of old thinkers, and is not obscurely hinted at in the Book of Genesis. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z We are rather led to believe that, though perhaps denser than the spiral nebul�, they are still of extremely thin and vaporous character. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z It was a dull and dismal afternoon: the rain splashed, the sky came down in gray, vaporous glooms; the red tape was the most cheerful thing in the room. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Although I thus describe what I saw, yet it gave me no idea of substance; it was vaporous, and yet it was articulate. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z After clear sunny days the dews fall more heavily; and now, as the sun set, the herbage was bathed in a vaporous haze—a dim mist rose around. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The three twins, who, although not with the tongue, yet with the head, were as wild as he, kindled absolutely the whole vaporous atmosphere of his full soul. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z All three, from their high albedoes and low densities, are still in a vaporous condition; still in some sort, semi-Suns; sources of a certain amount of heat, and not recipients merely. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z Her form grew vague as a snow wreath or a white vaporous cloud. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z No word was uttered by either of us; no word could have been uttered by this vaporous form. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z According to this, the origin is to be found in the moisture previously contained in a vaporous state in the atmosphere. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Over the meridian splendor of Le Stanze we already see their influences floating like a vaporous miasma. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There was also a time when the Earth was not a world of habitation; it was “without form and void”; hot and vaporous, even as the four outer planets are now. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z The smoke filled the place, and through its dense volumes in the dusk of that vaporous dawn the faces of the men were bleared and green and haggard. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z That $164 billion merger disaster defined a decade of thoughtless deal making, reckless ego and vaporous "synergy." Time for a Sequel to AOL-Time Warner? 2011-03-29T00:17:26Z This waltz, it rolls with a voluptuous rhythm, in harmony with the rhythm of the Girl, like convoluted masses, musically vaporous and very heavy, volutas without end and curve on curve. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Its full voluptuous beauty, he recalled confusedly; dimmed by the shadows which clung to it even in the light, it looked vaporous, evanescent, the phantasm of a lorelei riding the sea-foam. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z It was a strange sickly smell, vaporous and overpowering, like some strong anæsthetic. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z The condensing energy of the moon in her vaporous era was in like manner far less than that of the earth, and consequently far less heat was then generated. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z As the story goes, a shepherd, who fed his flocks here, observed the goats, when they approached the vaporous cavern, springing about madly, as if under some strange influence. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The air is heavy, stifling; two or three nightlights, which seem to be afraid of shining too brightly, scarcely pierce the vaporous, overheated darkness which exhales an odour of sweat and fever. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Nearer, but way up the valley, grayish, shifting mists writhed slowly, uncoiling vaporous lengths before the ever increasing light. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z And they heard her cry and answered her, those murmuring forests, those precipitous brooks and vaporous valleys. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z His massive head and shoulders shut out the misty stars, and as she looked up at him he appeared to her as a black and vaporous elemental risen from the ancient soil of Egypt. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z That dimness which spreads itself over the world at nightfall, wrapping it up as in a vaporous shroud, has a mystic power over our nature. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Owing to its slow rotation about its axis, a point on the moon receives the solar radiation uninterruptedly for more than a fortnight, and that too unmitigated by any cloud or vaporous covering. A Text-Book of Astronomy 2011-01-05T03:00:57.347Z We had not been in the saddle more than twenty minutes, when a heavily laden, vaporous cloud swept over us, and drenched us to the skin. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z I opened my eyes and was aware of a vaporous form or column of luminous ether standing beside me, which gradually growing more distinct, shaped itself into the bearing and lineaments of my father. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z The latter was staring into the blue haze of smoke, half humorously, as though he found something amusing in the vaporous clouds. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z As he got down to the shore the sun was sinking below the horizon; the silvery waters of the main were now being transmuted into vaporous gold. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The hills on the horizon, seen through an odd curtain of rain, for the day was showery, had the vaporous hazy outline of some of Murillo's pictures. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Still, Matt Bai's vaporous piece in the New York Times set people talking again today. Don't primary Obama, change Congress 2010-12-09T01:09:00Z Google TV -- the Web giant's software package for finding and watching TV programming over the Internet and through traditional subscription services -- looks less vaporous now. Faster Forward: Google airs more details about Google TV 2010-10-04T18:59:00Z Its strength lies in its vaporous quality; like an odourless but deadly gas, pervasive but impalpable. The spectre of laissez-faire stalks Britain 2010-06-20T16:00:00Z He photographs on film and develops each print on paper in his vaporous home darkroom in Orinda, with the results often showcased in coffee table books. A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise 2010-04-23T03:52:00Z As its name would imply, definitions of this technology can be vaporous. Dissecting The Cloud 2010-03-04T23:00:00Z Europeans gave their diplomats hardship pay to induce them to serve in vaporous Washington. Malaria: A Scourge as Old as King Tut 2010-02-21T01:21:00Z The sky was heavily sprinkled with stars whose wan clustering was blotted here and there by floating shreds of cloud, like vaporous, filmy leaves stripped by some upper gale from the Tree of Heaven. The Valiants of Virginia Beneath our eyes, tired from not seeing anything, the road kindly extends its vaporous pallor. Woman In his vaporous room, through whose open window the sound of two o'clock striking came very coldly, he could scarcely fancy himself in the present. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The crocus-shaped jet of the gas burned in the vaporous midnight with an unholy flame somehow, thought Michael, as candles must look, when at the approach of ghosts they burn blue. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He followed this up by emptying a huge leather-covered sieve full of bad barley several times upon the same vaporous mound. The Firebrand Enormous urns, polished like silver, could be seen from the outside emitting clouds of steam; under the chafing dish too came up vaporous jets. A Bed of Roses I was straying along a less frequented path, conscious of a heavy vaporous odor, in which I might have fainted had I remained exposed to it. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 From time to time a light snow fell, and always there was a vaporous quality about the cold night air which added to the waywardness of his unexpected experience. The Gray Mask While he was still speaking a servant informed the vaporous maiden that her maid and carriage had arrived, and presently that young lady left the room. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel What is it to the man who has the thunderbolt in his hands, of what various, nay, what earthly—nay, what vaporous, material it may be formed? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Thus darkness dense and gross would settle upon the vaporous deep, and would continue for long ages, until the atmosphere could be finally cleared of its superfluous vapors. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Above the elm trees and the hill-tops the fog floated and swayed in vaporous eddies. Carnival Low down upon the far horizon hung a dark vaporous cloud. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance It may certainly be ranked among Murillo's best efforts in the style he employed, when treating these celestial subjects, and which has been called his vaporous manner. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. I was straying along a less frequented path, conscious of a heavy vaporous odour, in which I might have fainted had I remained exposed to it. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses He saw— "An earth—formless and void; A vaporous abyss—dark at its very surface; A universal ocean—the breath of God hovering over it." The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Before his shocked eyes, Genarion's body began to steam and rise in a cloud of vaporous, glittering crystals. Shock Treatment He indulged in no vaporous visions, in no redundancy of phrases. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Its continuance was fully justified by the code, though, in the absence of any reciprocity whatever, it was perhaps more vaporous than any that the codifiers had considered. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Meantime, it is true, the fiery, glowing rising sun had extinguished the light of the stars and marked the east; but soon thereafter the crimson disk vanished behind vaporous clouds, the exhalations of the desert. The Scarlet Banner No succeeding state could parallel the unbroken symmetry of the earth in the fluid and vaporous condition of the "deep." The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Though it could not be seen, its presence was visible in the thin vaporous lightness of the sky. The New Warden The breeze blew cold; I thought it even pleasant; and without over-exercise, I took my last views of English coasts, and watched ships ahead of us blackly smudging a vaporous sky. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday There is no austerity in these vaporous glowing arrangements of a single color. Artists Past and Present Random Studies On the coasts the land is low, hot, vaporous, and luxuriant,—the native home of the richest tropical growths. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 At the commencement of the period the earth was enveloped by a misty or vaporous mantle. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Far into the night, her unquiet thoughts were yet heaving to and fro; advancing as restless billows of the sea, retreating as vaporous cloud-mists in the sky. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 On strode the stalwart figure, looking neither to right nor left, and behind him trailed the vaporous aroma of the fine cigar. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part It had come as a rainbow does, and disappeared as vaporously, little by little, before the full glare of might. Mary Magdalen Silence and Twilight here, twin-sisters, keep Their noonday watch, and sail among the shades Like vaporous shapes half seen;— and the forest is peopled with the phantoms that are born of Silence and Twilight. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century We have, however, a right to assume an original heated condition of the vaporous mass from which the sun was formed. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science The Hostile Power seemed to be threatening death and destruction from out the distant sea and the vaporous clouds which enshrouded St. Mark's. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Vines.—Leaves, or dung, or both mixed together, when used to produce fermentation, and a sweet vaporous atmosphere to “break” the early Vines, should be turned and watered at least once a-week. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house The great star was trying to rob its lord, the sun, of this vaporous body. Timar's Two Worlds On turning round, I could see nothing in the direction of Interlachen but gloomy vaporous depths, impenetrable to the eye. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Such an atmosphere—vast, dark, pestilential, and capable in its condensation of producing the most intense chemical action—is a necessity of an earth condensing from a vaporous and incandescent state. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Chicken skin, delicate, white, Painted by Carlo Van Loo, Loves in a riot of light, Roses and vaporous blue; Hark to the dainty frou-frou! Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers And how often time proves the end a thing which never actually draws one breath of life; a mere embryo, a phantom, vaporous product of our own imagination! The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography II Elf of the night of the City he darts with his crew Out of a vaporous furnace of colour that wreathes Magical letters a-flicker from crimson to blue High overhead. Collected Poems Volume Two And vaporous masses, ripped to ribbons, were falling, too, while other wraith-like forms closed upon them in cannibalistic feasting. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Apollo, radiant in hoary dew, leapt from the eastern wave, flamed through the heaven, and cooled his hissing wheels in the vaporous west. A Modern Symposium The daylight brightened, but mist clouds overhung the valley, while floating wreaths of fog drifted between the great rock and the fort gates, occasionally even obscuring the Iroquois in vaporous folds. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West The vaporous gauze, the sunny hair, the coral, the sapphires, the smile, were displayed with renewed success. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Look at those dainty little flecks of cloud yonder, low down in the sky, that seem to have caught the light in their vaporous drapery and embodied it. Opportunities From its surface rose small curling feathers of steam which, drifting towards the tunnel's roof, merged with that gray, vaporous current flowing steadily towards the sunless Arctic expanse outside. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 He makes his figures more graceful, his draperies more vaporous, and illumines his clouds with radiance. The Venetian School of Painting He then explained to me at length how the gases from the dead arise and form a nebulous vapor or a vaporous nebula. Our Next-Door Neighbors It was departing, vaporously as it had come. The Paliser case Home Rule not only, like pumpkins and vegetable marrows, requires a feculent soil, but like them, and indeed like all watery and vaporous vegetables, it needs the forcing-frame. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule A spark plug ignited it, and the heat of combustion added pressure to pressure, while the quivering, invisible live steam poured forth to change to vaporous clouds that filled the hangar. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The air is close and vaporous; the domed chamber is damp and musty. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba His garments were frosted and glistened, so that he seemed to be clothed in a vaporous incandescence. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin There was nothing vaporous or indistinct about the appearance of these spectres. Clairvoyance How many stanzas had thy lover given To one sweet vaporous wreath that lately graced Thy meditative lip, or how had striven To stay that form by unseen artist traced! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 On the far bank the mists lay in wisps and streamers above the low-lying meadow, and the dark bulk of cattle and horses loomed through them like rocks in a vaporous sea. Daisy's Aunt Oil paintings are only permissible when dreamy and vaporous in tint. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society It was difficult, even for a light-hearted person, to maintain a uniform cheerfulness where damp exuded everywhere, and the moist thick air seemed to close round one in vaporous folds. Wee Wifie The sun burned scorchingly down, and waves of heat trembled vaporously along the valley, while over the dusty highway small flocks of white and lemon butterflies hung drifting on lazy wings. The Roof Tree Sometimes at night she saw a melancholy star shining here and there in the vaporous sky. Amabel Channice Familiar in its huge sleek roundness, in its funnel-shaped base where a soft roar made vaporous clouds upon the water. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The particles thrown off might be, also by friction, electrified; and the vaporous tail might be thus accounted for. Pioneers of Science The slumbrous heat of the October day filled the clear, dry air and the sun shone fiercely, unveiled by a single vaporous cloud. With Hoops of Steel With regard to their physical condition, the most that can be said about these two planets is that they are probably in much the same vaporous state as Jupiter and Saturn. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language The streets were slippery, and the clean, vaporous scent of drying rain was stronger than the usual odor of rotting rubbish piled between the houses in the spaces the Orvietans called quintane. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel From under the metallic mass shrieked a vaporous cloud. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 To be sure, in that case I might have caught a glimpse of Table Mountain and its vaporous "table-cloth," and have seen the rocky isle where Napoleon was caged. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Then they exposed themselves to the burning rays of the sun, the "gross and vaporous aire and soyle" of Jamestown, and drank its foul and brackish water. Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 And how do you hope," continued the arrogant voice, "ever to be able to build anything upon a vaporous abstraction? Too Old for Dolls A Novel There is reason to believe that it is anticipated in the more massive globes, despite their comparatively slow cooling, as a consequence of the greater power of gravity over their investing vaporous envelopes. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition A solitary man, with his figure carved out in sharp relief against the vaporous sky, stood on the highest point of the cliff. The New Tenant We were in July now, and misty, vaporous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals. Daisy It is an advance movement in the East, bringing substance and actuality to much that in Buddhism is but vaporous ideality and bewildering prefiguration. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 I saw not five miles off the low jungle-bound coast of the peninsula, and above it a great bank of vaporous clouds, pierced by the molten rays of the early morning sun. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines The amount of heat required to effect the change from the liquid to the vaporous state, commonly called the latent heat of vaporization. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Felicity was a lovely little blonde creature about twenty-five years old, dressed in a floating Watteau-like garment of vaporous blue, painted with faded pink roses. The Twelfth Hour That there is an atmosphoera, or an orb of gross vaporous air, immediately encompassing the body of the moon. Moon Lore The thing he sought to obliterate ran ahead of him with a smiling facility and spat rearwards a vaporous jet of ridicule. The Wonder That was a very doubtful possibility; the hope built upon it was vaporously unsubstantial. A Red Wallflower In all cases where a liquid is employed, the refrigerating action is produced by the change in physical state from the liquid to the vaporous form. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 The student of photography asks if blurred edges, empty shadows and vaporous detail mean quality. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures The comets might be judged to be vaporous masses of various forms; but even these were supposed to surround or to attend upon globe-shaped nuclear masses. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Here the cliff descended abruptly to an enormous depth, and upon the vaporous rolling flood beneath him a dome of darker shadow rested. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West They drove into the circle of gaslights, among the vaporous steeds of omnibuses and flies, and entered the station, Phœbe’s veil down, and Mervyn shading his dazzled eyes from the glare. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster The contents of the globe of a planet, usually given in its proportion to that of the earth; or any named mass, solid, fluid, or vaporous. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When I came out my mind was so full of painted canvas that I never looked at the unpainted sky, or at the vaporous Square through which streamed the World, opening and shutting umbrellas. Tongues of Conscience Put the everlasting stove in the midst; hot, suffocating, and vaporous, as a witch's cauldron. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete This thought that a caring relationship grounded in many years could dissipate with such precipitancy by a mutual friend jumping off a balcony was proof of the vaporous quality of all things. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais One vaporous, golden afternoon in early autumn, the circus drew into the little town of Edmundston, at the mouth of the Madawaska River. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Exposed to this potent stimulus, the plant collects the gaseous carbonic acid and the vaporous water, solidifies them, decomposes them, and combines their elements into new and organised forms. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Whenever a substance burns without assuming the vaporous state—whether it becomes liquid or remains solid—it becomes exceedingly luminous. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 When a still higher temperature is applied, the metals may be vaporized, or reduced from a molten state to that of a vaporous condition. Aether and Gravitation As long as the substance remains in a liquid or vaporous condition, the play of this force is altogether masked and bidden. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 When the vaporous steam is condensed into the liquid water, all the heat is restored, and becomes palpable. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock It is the sunset! daylight’s crimson veil Floats o’er the mountain tops, while twilight pale Calls up her vaporous shrouds from every vale; Why art thou sleeping? Poems There were thirteen vaporous glowings where ships had been. Talents, Incorporated All known elements would be transformed into a vaporous condition if brought close to the sun's surface. Aether and Gravitation The valley was full of mist, white and shining where the light fell upon it, a vaporous purple where the shadows held sway. 'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895 Both men were pulling at their cigars with strong puffs, and the room was so vaporous with smoke that Steering was beginning to see very clearly indeed, as he went through the papers. Sally of Missouri It was strange to be more conscious of inland doings than of that vast unsalted sea so near him, which moistened his hair with vaporous drifts through the darkness. The King Of Beaver, and Beaver Lights From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Then a strange soft yellow and vaporous light shot across to the Barvas hills, and touched up palely the great slopes, rendering them distant, ethereal and cloud-like. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 He made the morning Offering behind that vaporous screen. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Again and again I saw this 'apparition' emerge from that vaporous cloud and handle the pad in the middle of the table. The Shadow World Thus they wander up and down over the whole region of broad vaporous plains, and scan all the scene. The Aeneid of Virgil Under this vaporous pall, the fighting was sharp and desperate. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 It was a surging intelligence of energy, abysmal, vaporous and limitless, transcending the dimensions, out-reaching boundless time, overshadowing matter. The Whispering Spheres So in my poetical career, when the rainy season was in the ascendant there were only my vaporous fancies which stormed and showered; my utterance was misty, my verses were wild. My Reminiscences I was at the moment convinced that I had seen a vaporous entity born of the medium. The Shadow World As the comet nears the sun, much of its substance is vaporised for the construction of this envelope; but as it goes off again into remoteness, the vaporous envelope is once more condensed. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 And as they sang the breath came from their stone lips white and vaporous into the frosty air. A Child's Book of Saints Ahead he went, that infernal gong A-ringin' "good-day" as he flew along, An' the smoke from his cigarette came back Like a vaporous snicker along his track. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp The world seems wrapped in one vast vaporous mist, most lovely to behold. April's Lady A Novel We looked intently at the heavens as they gathered blackness, and saw far off toward the horizon the clouds and the waves mingling together into one great vaporous mass. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited While thus engaged a beautiful colour effect developed softly before us through an opalescent, vaporous shroud. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 She was standing in the corridor, looking out at the vaporous English landscape. The Letter of the Contract The central body or nucleus is surrounded by a brilliantly luminous envelope or layer of vaporous matter which is what we see when we look at the sun and which the astronomer calls the photosphere. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told As need was, therefore, it applied itself lustily to the pipe, and sent forth such abundant volleys of tobacco-smoke, that the small cottage-kitchen became all vaporous. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Vessels and spells the hags were to provide, while Hecate was to catch a vaporous drop that hung on the corner of the moon, before it touched the ground. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales In the most recent years there has evidenced itself a decided reaction from the vaporous and fluent contours of the musical impressionists, from the style of "Pelléas et Mélisande" in particular. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The first of these produces Solidity, the second Softness, and the third the Spiritual, vaporous particles. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The thunder-clouds had so encompassed the sun that its rays burst through them almost exclusively in one wide crater, crimsoning, bronzing, and gilding their vaporous and ever-changing walls. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi Through breaks in the pine's close ranks they saw blue, vaporous distances, and on the far side of aerial chasms the swell of other mountains, clothed to their summits, shape undulating beyond shape. The Emigrant Trail His fever raged high, his body burning with it, his brain a turbulent melting pot wherein strange fancies passed through odd, vaporous forms. Wolf Breed He was surprised that anything so vaporous and colorful should come from the same sap that circulated through the bark and body of the thick tree itself. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story A horse or a tree or a clump of brush loomed up grotesquely in the vaporous blur. Raw Gold A Novel All the matter which in its vaporous state went forth with the eruption, the other gases and vapours thus discharged, have disappeared. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Later in the day the rain stopped and the clouds that had sagged low with its weight, began to dissolve into vaporous lightness, float airily and disperse. The Emigrant Trail The earth was once a hotter orb, passing successively from a vaporous to a fluid, and then a solid state. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The harbor was now as calm as a pond, except for the pink and dove color running vaporously on the back of a long swell from the south. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The sky was a clear blue dome, the vaporous folds of the Milky Way seeming to drift across it in indistinct light. Old Kaskaskia If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography The Dragon's penetration instruments revealed Triton's jagged peaks and chasms through vaporous nitrogen clouds. The Universe — or Nothing Now it loomed steadily in the dark, now it leapt quiveringly into the red, vaporous light. The Helpmate The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness, The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vaporous exultation, not to be confined! Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The mist rising from off the water in vaporous clouds obscured all else, rendering the scene weird and unfamiliar. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War The evidence goes to show, however, that the matter is in a dustlike or vaporous condition, and that the weight of these bodies is relatively very small. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Music and songs, too, have their drawbacks, especially gay songs; they invariably evoke a vaporous melancholy. Certain Personal Matters Hand in hand they floated in vaporous silver. The Stolen Singer Notice that green of the trees shot through with red tones, penetrated with quivering air, and the vaporous light of autumn. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers If the influences demoralising to the working-man act more powerfully, more concentratedly than usual, he becomes an offender as certainly as water abandons the fluid for the vaporous state at 80 degrees, Réaumur. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The peculiarity of these bodies is that they appear in most cases to be more or less completely vaporous. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography In a dream or hallucination one sees figures, more or less dim, but still having "vaporous materiality." Anthropology A gray vaporous tint was being spread over the heavens, folding this portion of earth in its shadow and darkening the interior of the cabin which Susannah entered. The Mormon Prophet It is light, vaporous, veiled, discreet; it lends its charm to hidden things, invites curiosity, adds an attraction to moral beauties, and gives a grace to the speculations of conscience. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers It has too little body, its scheme is too timorous, too vaporous to be handled by another. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture The lower clouds, gathering in the still air, show very plainly the tendency to agglomerate into spheres, which appears to be characteristic of all vaporous material which is free to move by its own impulses. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography And the green lights turned the vaporous fog a sickly yellowish green as though it were some new poison-gas of the devils over there. "Over There" with the Australians Then the empty streets, the curling white mists, the chill vaporous breeze, and the far-off sickly lights gleaming down the riverside reminded him that many hours must come before he could see her. The Survivor She was too much of a romantic, living, as many women do, in a cloudland of hallucination, until a lightning circumstance tears its rent in the vaporous fabric and experience thunders in their ears. Sally Bishop A Romance He pursued nothing seriously but out-of-doors, its vaporous atmosphere, its crisp twigs and graceful branches, its misty distances and piquant accents, what Thoreau calls its inaudible panting. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture In that time the water must have been all above the earth in the vaporous state. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography "There is nothing whatever in it," replied Barbican decidedly: "a simple proof is the fact that the Moon does not retain the slightest trace of the vaporous envelope by which comets are always surrounded." All Around the Moon They are fitful, shifting, vaporous: their outlines change, withdraw, dissolve, and “leave not a rack behind.” A Study of Shakespeare There was light there again, but only a small vaporous curl of light. What Necessity Knows Even in here below the high branches, it began to steal vaporous and dim. The Summons Pressure to the extent of four atmospheres causes chlorine gas to leave its vaporous form. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 At first that seems all there was to be seen upon the canvas; but if one looked closer one was able to discover another figure amid the vaporous, soft glooms of the place. Dreamland Azalea's blonde head was full of pernicious sentimentality, though she was saved from actual indiscretions by her cold and vaporous temperament. The Bread-winners A Social Study The photographs in the cracked show-cases were brown and vaporous, and the announcements of vanilla ice-cream were but breaths of lettering, blown on stained walls. The Judge Water, the mightiest of all, which devours the earth and quenches the fire, and rides over the air in vaporous exhalations, has been the chosen field of ingenious labor for our people. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Christ's words are a douche of cold water to condense the steam which was so noisily escaping, to turn the vaporous enthusiasm into something more solid, with the particles nearer each other. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII So, also, the rocks were transformed from the vaporous through the liquid into the solid form—all this while the globe was in process of condensation. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations. Among the Forces As he came to her side she raised her head and breathed "Good night!" to that ghostly essence which she conceived was floating vaporously in the upper air and slipped her arm in his. The Judge The mail-man contemplated his "team," bubbling and panting a vaporous breath over the platform. Success A Novel Again, for all ordinary sources of radiant heat, bisulphide of carbon, both in the liquid and vaporous form, is one of the most diathermanous bodies ever known. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 Beneath us, lies always the immense blue background: Nagasaki illumined by moonlight, and the expanse of silvered, glittering water, which seems like a vaporous vision suspended in mid-air. Madame Chrysantheme Now the River with all the lower world loses substance, becomes vaporous and unreal. London River Upon a darkened stage a ghost, skilfully attired in vaporous draperies, may be made sufficiently impressive, as in "Hamlet," for instance. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A shifting reflection from the Furnace stack fell over her in a wan veil, over the vaporous, sprigged white of her dress, her bare throat and arms, her cheeks wet with tears. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vaporous exultation not to be confined!' Recent Developments in European Thought These philosophers showed how, on the supposition that the space now occupied by the solar system was once filled by a vaporous mass, the formation of the sun and planets could be reasonably accounted for. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Even so dayly in the bowels of the Earth are procreated Metals, and Perspicuous Stones, from a proper noble vaporous Seed, from a Spiritual tinging Sulphureous Seed, in their diverse Saline Matrixes. The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires There was a demand for something vaporous and unearthly, gliding, transparent, mysterious. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The Forge, a long shed following the stream, was open on the opposite side; an enclosure of ruddy, vaporous gloom with pools of molten colour, clangorous sounds. The Three Black Pennys A Novel I looked up towards the sky, but there seemed to be no sky, no moon, and no stars, only a vaporous blackness that came down and closed about me. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Dank and white with its vaporous vigil the listless lake kindled wanly to the new day's breeze. The White Linen Nurse We find that this is the wax of the candle made into a vaporous fluid—not a gas. The Chemical History of a Candle Yes; but how torrid and vaporous an air! Hints for Lovers The Mercury rose to the top of the vessel in vaporous steam. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry The houses on the opposite side of the square vanished in a vaporous, yellow haze, and their lighted windows were like rows of bloodshot eyes looking out of the blackness. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill The boy forced a smile; he was beginning to shrink from the pleasant scrutiny, to wish that the vaporous fog of last night might dim the searching light of the morning. Max And what do you think the bulk of that water is when it assumes the vaporous condition? The Chemical History of a Candle This 24th was a sultry and oppressive day; a grey veil of cloud obscured the sky, and a vaporous mist hung heavily over the land, and fumed up from the valleys. The Hill of Dreams It choked and almost poisoned him by its vaporous pungency. The Sign of the Red Cross He does not lose himself in vaporous abstractions; his eye, as well as his mind, is extraordinarily interesting. The Art of Letters He leaned out, fingers close about the paper, lips and nostrils breathing in the suggestive, vaporous air. Max There is another condition which you must learn as regards the candle, without which you would not be able fully to understand the philosophy of it, and that is the vaporous condition of the fuel. The Chemical History of a Candle The vaporous sunlight softens all the outlines, hides the harsh features, and gives the landscape its dreamy, far-away, misty loveliness. Story of Chester Lawrence Asterabad and numerous villages dot the plain, and by taking R———'s binoculars we can make out, through the vaporous atmosphere, the shimmering surface of the Caspian Sea. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama What we see is evidently his vaporous atmosphere, which is marked by coloured spots and bands or belts, probably caused by storms and currents, especially in the equatorial regions. A Trip to Venus He put as it were a spot or two of pigment on the end of his painting-knife, and held it up into the air of the vaporous traditions of the Round Table. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Through the chinks of the shutter the morning stretched a grey finger; the room was filled with a vaporous twilight. Clementina These students may point to the fact that Science begins its consideration of evolution with the nebulae, or faint cloudlike, vaporous matter, from which the planets were formed. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga From this pool emerge gradually forms which appear sometimes vaporous and sometimes tentative, but never vapid and never woolly. Since Cézanne We often encounter landscapes of vaporous melancholy, twilights of reverie. Promenades of an Impressionist If they guessed her panic they would lurk no longer; they would crowd close, rush upon her in vaporous throngs, stifling her like hot smoke. Out of the Ashes Through the starlight he could see the hillside break away steeply into a vaporous gorge, while above him the mountain raised a black dome amid the serried points of the sky-line. The Wild Olive These elementary forms were composed of a vaporous, peculiar form of matter, of minute size,—little more than the atoms, in fact, and yet, just a little more advanced. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga In the centre of all, the great dome swam lightly, a gigantic celestial buoy in a vaporous sea. The Collectors For some time the two were silent, the sun shining down warmly on them through the faint, vaporous green of the tiny leaves. Hillsboro People A gray beam of light shot through a chink between the logs, and then another and another until the darkness of the hut changed to a vaporous twilight. The Philanderers The moon having no atmosphere, this absence of vaporous covering had consequences already pointed out. The Moon-Voyage The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 But who is this that from the misty cloud Of immemorial years, Wrapped in the vesture of his vaporous shroud With solemn steps appears? Poems She fled towards the western flight of the Hundred Steps, and ran down the vast staircase towards the Orangerie, and the still shining lake beyond, girdled with vaporous woods. Fenwick's Career These little airy edifices had all the fantastic lightness of the elf-world, and all the vaporous freshness of dawn. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 As Blackfoot ghosts are 'vaporous, ineffectual' for good, there seems to be nothing like ancestor worship. The Making of Religion These puffs blossomed from a pin-point of light to a vaporous, gray-white puff-ball about the size of the full moon, and then dissolved in the air or blew about in streaks and wisps. A Volunteer Poilu She faded and was lost in the vaporous curtain. True Tilda And how wonderfully has that vaporous ocean poured itself over the Caspian! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 Its light spread in a blue stream over the sky, and fell in a streak of vaporous gold on the thin clouds which went past close at hand. Liza "A nest of nobles" The sun was a deeper red, now, and once in a while almost disappeared in clouds of vaporous smoke which rolled higher and higher into the sky. Vandemark's Folly Yet in this great, calm city, with its vaporous browns and slaty blues, and its characteristic acrid smell of gasoline fumes, was another Paris, a terrible Paris, which I was that night to see. A Volunteer Poilu Beside him lay the Italian knife, its steely surface shimmering in the vaporous light, there where a dull and ruddy stain had not dimmed its brilliant polish. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk His affair was to watch the burst of smoke from the fort and then to watch the upward gush of water, almost as light and vaporous to the eye, where the ball struck. Between the Dark and the Daylight Back and forth, up and down, it moved—glowing, vaporous, ghostly. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Tunis has the same elements of broad lagoons and distant hills, but not the same vaporous atmosphere. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts In their new vaporous condition, in which both had lost some of their prominent qualities, they had acquired new relations, perhaps new duties. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 From the dining-room window looking over the park the long road wound through the vaporous country. Vain Fortune A vaporous wisp of cloud hung along the top of the slide, and above this aërial banner a snow-capped pinnacle thrust itself high into the infinite blue. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest This morning it was gone; only the great peaks showed themselves, as a far-off, cliff-bound shore, or here and there a green island in a vast, vaporous lake. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. The music from the fort came sudden and startling through the vaporous eddies. Malbone: an Oldport Romance The shape sat down by him,—her vaporous garment still folding softly around her, and her clear, open eyes fixed on him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 When they had reached their greatest height, there seemed to open up in the midst of the vaporous mass a brilliant space, from which they could see the blue of heaven. Wonderful Balloon Ascents Now, the steamer smokes immensely, and occasionally blows at the paddle-boxes like a vaporous whale- greatly disturbing nervous loungers. Reprinted Pieces The moon door was wide open, and through it I caught a glimpse of a corridor filled with a faint, pearly vaporous light like earliest misty dawn. The Moon Pool Put the everlasting stove in the midst; hot, and suffocating, and vaporous, as a witch's cauldron. American Notes A spiteful but vaporous idea floated through his brain that such waiting could not be very pleasant to the fellow. An Outcast of the Islands I hear huge Pestilence draw his vaporous breath: "Beware, prepare, or else ye die," he saith. The Poems of Sidney Lanier As need was, therefore, it applied itself lustily to the pipe, and sent forth such abundant volleys of tobacco smoke that the small cottage kitchen became all vaporous. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories My ghost - the ghost of the Whampo Reach - the ghost of those sultry and miasmal nights, had no shape, no vaporous form; it was nothing but a presence, a vague amorphous dread. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Trilling charged Anderson with indulging a vaporous sentimentalism, a kind of vague emotional meandering in stories that lacked social or spiritual solidity. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. Dracula But the blue vaporous end of day Brought peace, and pursuit baffled quite, Where between pine-woods dipped the way. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Far over on the Surrey shore a blue light—vaporous, mysterious—flicked translucent tongues against the night's curtain. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu His eyes, searching the blue and vaporous vistas of the shop, were caught by a circle of brightness that shone with a curious egg-like lustre. The Haunted Bookshop It was as bright as at midday, but the brightness was cold, blue, vaporous, supernatural. Hauntings However, she looked very pretty, dressed in vaporous tulle of a shade of blue which only a faultless complexion can bear. Love at Second Sight It is an element which has no right to this country, except in a solid or vaporous state. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras It was deep night, and over Jerusalem's low roofs The moon floated, drifting through high vaporous woofs. Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh The sun sinking slowly behind a fog-bank had slashed the whole western sky with scarlet streaks, against which the wooded slopes of the Isle of Wight stood out vaporous and purple. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 It was four o'clock; and the afternoon sun was hanging in the sultry sky of July with a hot and vaporous stillness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 He was therefore conducted to an easy-chair, well cushioned and stuffed with vaporous softness, and left to take a little repose. A Select Party Prepared for with anxious care, dressed for with silent despatch—nothing vaporous or fluttering now—no white gauze or azure streamers; the grave, close, compact was the order of the toilette. Villette There were worlds of thought and feeling already in motion in Hester's universe, while the vaporous mass in him had hardly yet begun to stir. Weighed and Wanting Sometimes the cry of the sailors on watch took a strange note in the lustrous vaporous spaces. Saint Augustin Darkness hides the goal of Psyche's mission; For the eyes that tears so often gall Reach not to the summit of completion Where illusion's vaporous veil doth fall! Rampolli Thereat a cry Thrilled through the grove, and all that comely rout Faded with flickering wafts of flame, and trail Of vaporous ropes. The Light of Asia The weather had been a little cloudy all day, but as he left the closer part of the town, the vaporous vault gave way, and the west revealed a glorious sunset. A Rough Shaking These little airy edifices had all the fantastic lightness of the elf-world and all the vaporous freshness of dawn. Amiel's Journal She reappeared, glowing vaporously in her triumph, and spread out her arms before the pallid man in the hard felt hat. The Mountebank Buds were swelling and the edges of the woods wore a soft blush against the vaporous sky. The Desert and the Sown He did not know that the sun wooed with amorous kiss the waves of the sea, and that, disappointed, their vaporous sighs changed to tears and fell again as rain. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. It has all the vaporous horror of a Dore grotesque and will bear examination better. Imaginations and Reveries So he meets it with a douche of cold water in verses 19, 20, because he wishes to condense vaporous resolutions into something more tangible and permanent. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The art of self-reflection which appeals to us as so eminent and so human, is it after all much more than a vaporous vanity? The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It appears for a moment, curling from lip and nostril into the cold morning air, and vanishes away, so thus vaporous, filmy, is the seeming solid fact of the most stable life. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It was evening, the color of sky and bay was darkening, intensified by a vaporous rosy column where the ascending smoke of Vesuvius held the last upflung glow of the vanished sun. The Happy End Then Dion and Neaera went out, and as they walked home through the forest, purple and vaporous in the evening light, they drew closer together. Imaginations and Reveries Young readers may well be content with a few such lyrics, leaving the bulk of Poe's poems to such as may find meaning in their vaporous images. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The soft, vaporous odour drifted towards her from a small table strewn with medicine bottles, and taking care to hold the cork tightly in her fingers she squeezed it into the bottle. A Mummer's Wife But such vaporous conjecture passed away as quickly as it came. Daniel Deronda Though the day was ending there was no thinning of the vaporous heat, and a sodden humanity, shapeless in bathing suits, was still reluctantly moving away from the beach. The Happy End There was a sudden flash; we witnessed the instantaneous dechemicalization of the electronic elements of Babaji's body into a spreading vaporous light. Autobiography of a Yogi Swept along by the energetic spirit of the woman, Hugh fought to overcome his inclination to give himself up to vaporous dreams. Poor White There is no medium in my life between the most vulgar realities and the most vaporous fiction, too thin to breathe. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance How freely they coursed through him, how fluid they were, how vaporous, how easy to breathe! Swann's Way That is to say, they saw that day the vaporous envelope which was my idea, but failed to perceive the inner me, which by a curious freak of fate has been created tender and merciful. The Home and the World Shadows waned and faded into dimness more diffuse, and light grew soft and vague and vaporous. Erema — My Father's Sin He dreamed, but his dreams were unformed and vaporous. Poor White Certainly, in this ardent, penetrating light of the present, the past looked vaporous and dim, like a range of mountains scaled long ago and vanishing on the horizon. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales The dominant mode is to insist on a Christianity that disowns its origin, that is not a substantial growth having a genealogy, but is a vaporous reflex of modern notions. Impressions of Theophrastus Such As I entered, the vaporous atmosphere was palpitating to the low, liquid tinkling of an invisible musical box. Prince Zaleski Mysterious darkness flooded the room, so that the moonbeams entering through the window filled it with vague lights and vaporous reflections. The Reign of Greed Out of the body of the most active of the clouds long vaporous arms were extended. Poor White And he would sit a silent hour and gaze Upon the distant hills with dazzling snow Upon their peaks, and thence, adown their sides, Streaked vaporous, or starred in solid blue. A Hidden Life and Other Poems These vaporous toys you watch me make, That shoot ahead, pause, turn and break— Some glide far out like sailing ships, Some weak ones fail me at my lips. Fairies and Fusiliers The crystal flagons rang like one great harmonica with shrill but spirit-stirring music; volumes of vaporous perfumes diffused themselves through the apartment, and an endless procession of treasure-laden figures defiled before the bewildered youth. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales While the ground jarred with occasional tremors and the mountain puffed forth its vaporous threats, he and the surgeon, seated on a rock, gave themselves with complete absorption to the reading. The Mystery Murillo painted in three distinct styles, and these have come to be known as the "warm," the "cold," and the "vaporous." Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People From Sinai's top, the vaporous, thunderous place, God passed in clouds, an earthly garment worn To hide, and thus reveal. A Hidden Life and Other Poems The flying ephemerides enveloped us like a vaporous eddy. The Queen Pedauque For some reason Mr. Bell, after gazing at the vaporous masses for a few minutes, looked rather troubled. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings The vaporous white figure before him swayed pitifully in the darkness. Victory An Island Tale The Madonna stands upon a curve of the earth, which is scarcely to be seen, and looming mistily in front of her is a mass of white vaporous clouds. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People How, they say, can one hope to distill into clear and stable ideas such a vaporous and fleeting matter as Aesthetic feeling? The Principles of Aesthetics A stroke of composition I never weary of is that long blue stretch of the Campagna which makes a high horizon and rests on this vaporous base of olive-tops. Italian Hours It forms a bright object against the dark curtains of those mountains which raise their summits to the clouds, and of which the vaporous and bluish tint blends with the azure sky. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Majestic tabular bergs whose crevices exhaled a vaporous azure; lofty spires, radiant turrets and splendid castles; honeycombed masses illumined by pale green light within whose fairy labyrinths the water washed and gurgled. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 "Look on to the smoke, White people, and do you, Little Flower, tell me what you see there," he called from behind this vaporous veil. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales The paper-shaded lamp shed a soft and mellow light upon her vaporous hair, whitening the square white hands, till they seemed to be part of the writing paper. Celibates One evening lately, near the same Florence, in the soft twilight, I took a stroll among those encircling hills on which the massive villas are mingled with the vaporous olives. Italian Hours They had no difficulty in entering unnoticed, for Mrs. Hoskyn considered obscurity beautiful; and her rooms were but dimly lighted by two curious lanterns of pink glass, within which were vaporous flames. Cashel Byron's Profession The moon was shining from the edge of a vaporous mountain, which gradually drew away from her, leaving her alone in the midst of a lake of blue. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood Barriers will only be as those vaporous clouds. The Maid of Maiden Lane They marched above us like an army in the heavens, while from time to time vaporous points shot forward, thin like swords, or massed like charging horse. Ayesha, the Return of She It is, says one writer, "continually changing and fluctuating as vaporous masses of cloud-like structure might be conceived to do, and in some instances there has been a strong appearance even of an undulating movement." Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel |
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