Thus the vaporing schoolmaster, without any anxious solicitation, any flatteries, or compromise of his dignity and integrity, had steadily advanced to that post in which he could effectually serve his country.
These were followed by a Treatise of Education; and, finally, by his famous Areopagitica--altogether an extraordinary mass of labor to proceed from the private abode of a poor vaporing schoolmaster!
Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful.
We call it by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
It was much the fashion then for the British officers to speak slightingly of their enemies; and Sarah took all the idle vaporing of her danglers to be truths.
Colonel Wellmere had never been kept much in the field, or these notions, which he had brought with him from home, and which had been greatly increased by the vaporing of a garrisoned town, would have long since vanished.
Yet in very pity the task had to be done, and when next he heard them vaporing on the glory of the future, he said casually: "I know what your enemies will say if you come into contrast with Livingstone.
Must not the vaporing Burgoyne, who, it is said, possesses great sensibility, be humbled to the dust?
Protestant writers in the United States have long been kept in check by the bullying and vaporing of Popish priests, when some resolution and a little tact, might at all times have silenced them.
