From their flowing locks Vapours immense shall issue at their call; When falls the tempest seas shall rise and foam (33) Moved by their spell; though powerless the breeze To raise the billows.
From the wood a sound is gliding, Vapours dense the plain are hiding, How yon Dame her son is chiding.
From the wood a sound is gliding, Vapours dense the plain are hiding, Still that Dame her son is chiding: "Hence, begone!
When the hole at one end is closed up by a slip of tinplate, and the liquids are heated with a spirit-lamp, the vapours form a cloud of sal-ammoniac within the box, which is retained during its formation.
These unnoticed recruits, though it is now certain that they come in the form of those swimming vapours from which little moisture seems to fall, are enlisted by means still not certainly known.
In the late autumn mornings, when the mists are floating among the tall trees on the hill and the sunbeams just striking down through the vapours as they top the wood from the east, it is one of the prettiest sights on the Thames.
I too was desirous of sleep; but my thoughts were troubled with the apprehension that, although I had now completed one half of the road, the vapours might collect on the summit of the mountain, and frustrate all my hopes.
At Naples and Messina, at the foot of Cotopaxi and of Tunguragua, earthquakes are dreaded only when vapours and flames do not issue from the crater.
Secondly, because the quantity of vapours raised from the sea, and falling on the land, only cause a circulation, but no increase of water.
If a taper be held to the mouth of the bottle, thesevapours will inflame, and produce a violent explosion; which may be repeated as long as the vapours continue.
When the wind carries the vapours from that place, the rainbow is gone, but appears again as soon as new vapours arise.
These vapours rise high in the air when it is calm, but are dispersed by the wind when it blows hard.
But though this seems generally to be the case, there are exceptions, as has been instanced in the vapours which set fire to the stacks of corn.
The more vapours that float, the brighter and clearer is the rainbow.
On the same principle may we account for those mischievous vapours which set fire to the hay and corn stacks, but were driven away by presenting to them a pointed iron instrument, or by making a noise.
A violent commotion will then take place, and white vapours will arise from the mixture.
The light grew richer and quieter and more serene; vapours turned the sun to crimson; and suddenly, appearing beyond a last gradual rise, the breadth of Lancashire lay spread out below them.
They put the shoulder of the hill between themselves and the hubbub, and the moon, at its last quarter, appeared low over the moor, and showed the little creeping miasmic vapours that curled over the surface of the dark morass.
I could find no record of any eruption of lava or ashes since the Spanish Conquest, but the vapours in the new crater, always thick, sometimes increase sufficiently to alarm the Arequipenos.
Along the leaguered wall and bristling bank Of the armed river, while with straggling light The stars peep through the vapours dim and dank, Which curl in various wreaths:--how soon the smoke Of Hell shall pall them in a deeper cloak!
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings for the rain; He bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Still on we climbed till we found ourselves on the very basin of the culminating crater, but were almost driven back by the jets of steam and sulphurous vapours which surrounded us.
The vapours arise quite suddenly; we ring the alarm-bell to send the people to the ships.
They tell me that vapours rise up from the land and lie above it like a cloud.
The vapours still lay thick upon Ken's Island, but the wind was driving them, and they rolled away in misty clouds westward to the dark horizon.
And we pulled from it reluctantly out into the broad sea, and breathed a full breath as we left its vapours and its fetid shores.
It would appear, then, that all stars are suns with continuous spectra, and the classes are differentiated by the character of the absorbent vapours of their atmospheres.
A shooting star lit up the sky, and the boy's thoughts passed in a second from the vapours of the earth up to the shining meteor.
They were not elves dancing out there, as their old nurse had told him; he knew better--they were vapours which were warmer than the air, and that is why they rose.
A large, dull halo surrounded the moon, and her light struggled dimly and ominously through the watery and angry-looking vapours that flitted across it.
They are vapours or mists, thinner than water and thicker than air: and hence in drawing in the breath, when there is an obstruction, the air passes, but there is no smell.
An iron lamp hung from one of the massy arches of the roof; the damp and stagnant vapours lending an awful indistinctness to the objects they surrounded.
The sun shot a languid and fitful ray athwart the vapours gathering to receive him, and its light shone on the full couch of the invalid.
Arguing a priori, one would have concluded that if this waste land was worthless before, now it was a marsh, and miasmatic vapours arose from it, it would be still more avoided.
Meeting cold currents of air, the vapourscondense in rain, and fall upon the earth.
The steam vapours thus bursting forth, owing to some kind of constant volcanic disturbance, are also more or less laden with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, communicating a very ill odour to the neighbourhood.
The pestilential vapours themselves would appear to be nothing more than carbonic acid gas.
The people attached to the embassy told us that when there is any wind, the vapours are scarcely perceptible, but that they are very dangerous when the weather is calm and serene.
The grand object with the whole caravan was to get up its strength as much as possible, with a view to the passage of the Bourhan-Bota, a mountain noted for the pestilential vapours in which, as we were informed, it is constantly enveloped.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vapours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
