Vapours

Examples

• Therefore these vapours of the sun which were rendered in black lines were so produced by crossing terrestrial vapors of the same nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These vapours are then conducted by separate jets to different points in the stove where the heat is to be applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When it is heavy, rainy weather, they all come in, wet through; and at such times the vapours of the court are like those of a fungus-pit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• At the very beginning of the 19th century John Dalton in England, 1801-1807, and Gay-Lussac in France began their investigations of gases and vapours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For with sparky soot, snuffs and vapours, men have constant strife,-- Those who are not burned to death are smothered during life. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The sun raises the vapours from the sea, which form clouds, and fall in rain upon the land, and springs and rivers are formed of that rain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The consequence of the earthquake was a general sickness, from the noisome vapours belched forth, which swept away above three thousand persons. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She lay fuming in the vapours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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