vapourish

Come, dear Susan, and let us make the best of this 'very penetrating world' - as a maid of my mother's used to call it in vapourish moods - come and wind me up again, as you have often done before when I was quite run down, so that, from being a mere senseless piece of lumber, I began to tick and tell people what o'clock it was.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose.

The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963

But, after all, so low, so dejected, continues she to be, that I am terribly afraid I shall have a vapourish wife, if I do marry.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And whenever, for appearance-sake, they are obliged to be together, every one sees, that the yawning husband, and the vapourish wife, are truly insupportable to one another; but separate, have freer spirits, and can be tolerable company.

Pamela 2006

I should be ready to censure some of thy contrivances and pretences to suspend the expected day, as trite, stale, and (to me, who know thy intention) poor; and too often resorted to, as nothing comes of them to be gloried in; particularly that of Mennell, the vapourish lady, and the ready-furnished house.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Now this letter gives the servant the small-pox: and she has given it to her unhappy vapourish lady.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

First, where he has borne with any infirmity of your own; and I know of none where you can give him such an opportunity, except you get into a vapourish habit, by giving way to a temper too thoughtful and apprehensive:

Pamela 2006

If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Excuse this depth of vapourish dejection, which forbids me even hope, the cordial that keeps life from stagnating, and which never was denied me till within these eight-and-forty hours.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006