But, even as he watched, the vapory body reformed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

Quietly in the meadows, and breathing the vapory freshness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

Washed with a cold gray mist, the vapory breath of the east wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference

The Event Shews that my Resolutions are of a very thin and vapory.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756] Reference

She wore her glistening black hair in bands, and dressed in vapory white muslin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference

Certainly not the vapory, unsubstantial kind that flit through mansions such as mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

Grey, vapory clouds swept over the Tappan Zee, and a sad, sighing wind tossed it into crests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

In a vapory distance floats off from the eye the arid and thankless country of the Beni-Abbes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

Far more disconcerting than their deaths was the unclear or “vapory” meaning of their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

The Temple of Vishnu lay bathed in vapory shading clouds, and Shinumo Altar shone with rays of glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]

Then they layer on morbid lyrics, vapory and spooky harmonies and bursts of organ or the peeling of chimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Low's Hypnotic New Album: 'Drums and Guns'] Reference

Then a white phantom boat, thin, vapory, unsubstantial, now seen, now lost again, appears on the skirts of our horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

And though the story about the fortune might be vapory, it was fun to have had such an experience -- to actually run away!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference

But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, the whale looked like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

The most glorious sunset -- where the vapory billows of the sky have caught the bloom of the dying Autumn -- cannot rival it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

The thick fog which arose from the swamp hung round and about like a huge, vapory cloud, making the hot air moist and stifling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference

From the horizon to the zenith, light vapory clouds hurried through the upper air, driven by a refreshing northwesterly breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underground City] Reference

Then she turned vapory and carefully insinuated herself through the peephole, careful not to interfere with Dolph's line of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

No genius of all this active world of Brief ever conceived the idea that almost unlimited power lies wrapped up in thin vapory water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference

Something cloudlike, vapory and undefinable, which seemed too ethereal for earth, gradually appeared at the extreme end of the terrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

And now the two on land stand with their eyes strained on the boat, which slowly fades away into the vapory mist which lies beyond: then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

For a short time after the yellow-winged monoplane had mounted and turned south and westward over the vapory river, the boys had a new sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

From it the silver thread of a rivulet wormed its way for a mile or more among the trees and then trickled over the side of the cliff in a vapory waterfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

Mr. Reid said some good things in his lecture, and was well applauded; but, in the main, he was too ethereal, vapory, and fanciful for the most of us leather-heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Their hopes, however, are based on nothing but the "vapory vagaries of unenlightened human reason," instead of the unchanging truths and principles of Divine Revelation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

By and by a counter-current of wind seemed to set in toward the south-west, and a part of the huge vapory mass was broken off from the rest and whirled directly overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Its rumbling batteries, unlimbered on the vapory heights and manned by the fiery gunners of the storm, boomed their volleying thunders to the terrible rythm of the strife below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

Back floats the wharf, and becomes vapory with a bluish tinge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

Gradually the gray vanishes, and a beautiful, pale, vapory blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

It is only the form of St. Vincent, bathed in vapory gold by the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

At first it appears all gray, a vapory gray; then it becomes bluish-gray; then all green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

Taconic, looking blue and indistinct, and hardly so substantial as the vapory sea that almost rolled over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gorgon's Head (From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")] Reference

The storm had not lifted; the colorless clouds were still letting down a fine, vapory rain that blurred everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference

Comets are light, vapory bodies, which move around the sun in orbits much less circular than those of the planets ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Kellypuffs] Reference

Their breath was blown in two vapory columns from their nostrils and drifted about their heads like steam about a locomotive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood in Norway] Reference

Finally, in the darkness, a queer-looking, vapory, luminous form floated around in the air and paused in front of the spectators.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life] Reference

Kaha was granddaughter of the Wind and the Rain, whose home is still among the vapory darks that settle in the valley of Manoa, back of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate] Reference

Out of sight westward -- in successions of bright green, pale green, bluish-green, and vapory gray-stretches a long chain of crater shapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference