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  • adjective Characteristic of vapour

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Examples

  • Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they are — all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty to observe.

    The Meditations 2004

  • Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Slight vapoury clouds sailed smoothly over the clear sky, scarcely obscuring the sun, and at times a downpour of rain fell suddenly in sheets, and was as quickly over.

    Rudin 2003

  • The yellow gas-flames arose before his troubled vision against the vapoury sky, burning as if before an altar.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • Smoke went up from the whole earth, from the vapoury oceans, smoke of her praise.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

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