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Thy fragrant breath and angel voice—which won My heart that from its thrall shall ne'er be free— The wind which vapour-like my frail life flies.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

These were long, thin, fantastic coils of vapour-like material, which turned and twisted with great speed, flying round and round at such a pace that the eyes could hardly follow them.

From Tales of Terror and Mystery by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Some four or five hundred yards back, he came to a hollow, where on a tuft of brown heather, sat Mark, looking as white as the vapour-like moon in the daytime.

From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George

These were long, thin, fantastic coils of vapour-like material, which turned and twisted with great speed, flying round and round at such a pace that the eyes could hardly follow them. 

From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Their belief must rather have been in the existence of that shadowy, vapour-like form, comparable to the human breath, in which so many races of mankind have pictured to themselves the imperishable part of man.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)