vapour
noun
vapourish
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a word derived from
vapour.
Example Sentences
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She found, said he, that I was unable to determine about entering upon it; and now who knows when such a vapourish creature will come to a resolution?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
Lady Lyndon, always vapourish and nervous, after our blessed boy's catastrophe became more agitated than ever, and plunged into devotion with so much fervour, that you would have fancied her almost distracted at times.
From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
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
The night was a vapourish, miserable one, blurring his figure into indistinctness, and when he spoke his voice was hoarse, as though the damp tendrils of the mist had penetrated to his throat.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
