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I did not tell him how my vapourish fancy had represented him to me; that, I thought, was not proper.

From The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana by Defoe, Daniel

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

"And when the moon is full I always feel excessive feminine and vapourish!"

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

I'm forgetting my duty as nurse, and it is very bad for a patient to get vapourish!

From The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young by F. M. S.

—A vapourish or splenetic patient is a fiddle for the doctors; and they are eternally playing upon it.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel