vapouring

The usual exaggerated Froggy vapouring, but Delzons wasn't the usual Frog, and I guessed he believed it.

Watershed 2010

Humour was all we had left, even inadvertent humour, but now even that has dissipated into puffs of indignant vapouring.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

The allusion to friends, and the offer of money, Gride held to be mere empty vapouring, for purposes of delay.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Jack, when I see my angel, when I am admitted to the presence of this radiant beauty, what will become of all this vapouring?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

“Truly, my dear Las Cases,” he said, “vapouring, credulity, inconsistency, stupidity might be said, in spite of all their wit, to be their special lot.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

“Truly, my dear Las Cases,” he said, “vapouring, credulity, inconsistency, stupidity might be said, in spite of all their wit, to be their special lot.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

I do not know what effect this vapouring might have had in hot scented rooms, or in the languor of some rich garden; but up on that cold hill-top it was as unsubstantial as the mist around us.

Greenmantle 2005

But since we have learned from all vapouring France

04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003 John 2003

“Truly, my dear Las Cases,” he said, “vapouring, credulity, inconsistency, stupidity might be said, in spite of all their wit, to be their special lot.”

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

French boy, mop, boat, steamer, prince — Psha! it is of this wretched vapouring stuff that false patriotism is made.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004