Example Sentences

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Post-card pictures had given them no idea of the energy of her large gesture, or how her heaviness becomes light among the vapourish elements.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish, but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

Cowper was, to her mind, a vapourish egotist and a fanatic. 

From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Martin, Stapleton

Though no longer young, she was still slender and graceful, and her languid eye and vapourish manner seemed to Odo to veil an uncommon alertness of perception.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

When in the vapourish blue, I wander, lost, Let some fair paradise reward my eyes— Hill after hill, and green and sunny vale, As I have known beneath the Irish skies.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various