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It was the same vapoury figure—the same transparent robes, the same benign countenance, only far more pitying than before—that I beheld at Holywell.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The barber is a name given to a light vapoury mist that, when the frost is intense and the wind in pertain directions, is seen rising off the sea in Greenland.

From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Stables, Gordon

They were soon on the top of the highest mountain in Wales, and surrounded by a vapoury company of goats with shadowy horns.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

He is beginning to make copy; and the subjects are becoming more vague, vapoury, and ghostly.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

Oh, for the rising of that white curtain! how Flora tried to peer through its vapoury folds, to “Hail old Scotia’s darling seat,” the beautiful abode of brave, intelligent, true-hearted men, and fair good women.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna