Example Sentences
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The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a time he stormed about the Moorish halls, and vapored about the bastions, and looked down fire and sword upon the palace of the captain-general.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Ben and his brother eked out the profits of the dairy by occasional labor, and Ben had sometimes vapored in tap-rooms where he had better have held his tongue.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
Mackenzie vapored and complained of others, formed plans one hour to change the next, and demonstrated the weakness of his shallow nature.
From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Sellar, Gordon
The warriors were evidently baffled by these precautions, and, having smoked their pipe, and vapored off their valor, took their departure.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
