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

He raged and vapored and threatened on the floor of the House.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

You may imagine what a passion I was in when I vapored and blustered in that way.

From The Queen of Hearts by Collins, Wilkie

High over all this billowing and peaking tower the Pitons of Carbet, gem-violet through the vapored miles,—the tallest one filleted with a single soft white band of cloud.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

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