In these changes heated waters and vapors from the masses of igneous rocks undoubtedly play a very important part.
Gases however are still emitted, and, as sulphur vapors are conspicuous among them, such vents are called solfataras.
Dick became quite sure now that the warrior and his horse were unreal, a creation of the vapors and the mists, and that he himself was dreaming.
He wished, for a moment, that the vapors might lift, and then they could fight their enemies face to face.
The clouds and vapors rolled over attack and defense, but through the darkness fire answered fire.
Darker and darker the clouds rolled up and the smoke and vapors thickened in the forest, but through the blackness the lines of flame still replied to each other.
Here the vapors and mists seemed to be imprisoned by the boughs and foliage, and the odors were heavy and acrid.
The clouds and vapors rolled back, and the dancing figures in the thickets took on more semblance of reality.
Not indeed that vapors of a certain degree of opacity are lacking, but they offer very little impediment to the study of the topography of the planet.
Filmy purple mists, that were not vapors but fabrics woven of color, hid in the recesses of the hills.
He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garish light.
It accordingly presents the striking phenomenon of volcanic vapors ascending from a snow-clad summit.
The vapors ascend to an estimated height of 2,200 feet above the top of the mountain.
The eruption of lava ceased on the 16th, and then followed heavy discharges of ashes, violent shocks of earthquakes, thunder and lightning in the columns of vapors and ashes, and finally heavy rains, lasting till the 3d of July.
Out of this region, which is comparatively flat rises the principal cone, about 1,100 feet in height, having on its summit the crater, whence sulphurous vapors are continually evolved.
Sulphurous vapors filled the air and violent tremblings of the earth were constant.
Its name signifies "birdless," indicating that its ascending vapors were fatal to all birds that attempted to fly above its surface.
At the time of his visit the summit was wholly covered with snow, but the Indians affirmed that hotvapors occasionally ascend from fissures in the rocks.
The bottom contains several small fuming cones, whence arise vapors of changeable color, being successively red, yellow and white.
It is important to notice that the vapors issue from the volcano spasmodically, explosions succeeding each other with great rapidity and noise.
Flames and sulphurous vapors could hardly be actually present at Stabiae, ten miles from the centre of the eruption.
When the evening's crystallizing Vaporssettle on my breast, Lo!
Is it the misty vapors of the moor That form a picture in the morning chill?
His imagination would be clogged with the vapors of cabbage.
The last vapors of London, the torpid miasma of the packed streets, the cabbage odors of Camden Town, were blown afar; he drew deep breaths of the delicious air.
To Matt the hard work and the peril were alike welcome; the very mists were poetry after the yellow charnel-house vapors of London, which now lay behind him like a nightmare, and with it his dream of Art.
To such my errand is; and, but for such, 15 I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vaporsof this sin-worn mould.
The whole landscape was wrapped in twilight shadows that grew deeper every moment, and misty vapors rose from field and forest.
As the sun rises, these same vapors are warmed, and begin to ascend, to be breathed again, but as the air becomes warmer, they are carried so far above our heads as to be innocuous.
He could hold very tightly her shoes: he could almost embrace the phantom of her beauty that curled upon the vapors round each lamp: he was intoxicated merely by the sound of the street where she lived.
They had come here to rest from the fatigue of dullness, and in a moment now the chill vapors of the autumn night would wreathe themselves round their journey home.
The moon temporarily clouded over by the autumnal fog made the corbels and gargoyles and sculptured figures above the cloisters take on a grotesque vivacity, as the vapors curled around them.
A column of heated air or vapor rising from a chimney is well known to be a conductor for lightning; the rise of hydrocarbon vapors is illustrated by the balloon.
When a current of air is passed over the surface of gasoline it becomes carbureted or charged with its vaporsto saturation.
Drive away the vapors with beaux and fancy-work now.
Lewis' laugh cleared the vapors from his brow, and the pain at Sarah's heart did not hinder her from joining in.
In every case the aqueous vapors of the air are the ultimate source of supply, and all these hidden stores are again returned to the atmosphere by evaporation.
At this distance, the suffocating, sulphurous vapors became so dense that I could follow the current no farther.
But if mountains do not really draw clouds and invisible vapors to them, they are an exception to the universal law of attraction.
The true electrical condition of neither cloud nor forest could be known, and it could seldom be predicted whether the vapors would be dissolved as they floated over the wood, or discharged upon it in a deluge of rain.
Visible vapors or clouds, it is well known, prevent frosts by obstructing radiation, or rather by reflecting back again the heat radiated by the earth, just as any mechanical screen would do.
Most of them, indeed, have the valves loaded, and the effort of the confined gases and vapors to lift the load produces the terrific phenomena of earthquakes and volcanoes.
Heavy vaporsrose from the marshes, and clouds of smoke from the afternoon's battle floated about over the thickets, poisoning the air as if with gas, and making the men cough as they breathed it.
The smoke, the mists and vapors gathered into one dense cloud, that hung low and made everything clammy to the touch.
Then Shepard faded away with the mists and vapors that were retreating before a brilliant dawn.
Once more the field of Gettysburg swam before him, not now in fire and smoke, but in vapors and misty rain.
The mountains looked green, and fresh, and lovely, tempered with the milder light, or softened in shadow, as thin vapors floated between them and the sun.
The rays of the sun were beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of the day was lessened, as the cooler vapors of the springs and fountains rose above their leafy beds, and rested in the atmosphere.
But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory.
I procured some in Boston with these names on the box, but the label said they were made in Sweden, and they diffused vapors that were enough to produce asphyxia.
It does not trouble them at all to see the watery spheres that round themselves into being out of the vapors floating over us; they are nothing but raindrops.
The encompassing mists were a magnificent green, and the stream which, before falling, extends over a bed of black sand and pebbles, was so clear that one would have thought it frozen if pale vapors did not follow its surface.
Accordingly immense volumes of the carbon steam in the sun soar at a higher level than do the vapors of the other elements.
We can understand what happens to these carbon vapors by the analogous case of the familiar clouds in our own skies.
We can now understand what happens as the buoyant carbon vapors soar upwards through the sun's atmosphere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vapors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
