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Vapory   Listen
adjective
Vapory  adj.  
1.
Full of vapors; vaporous.
2.
Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.





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"Vapory" Quotes from Famous Books



... brighter, presently painted out the stars. Soon the brown rocks of Greyport appeared faintly suffused, and then the whole ashen line of dead coast was kindled, and the lighthouse beacons went out one by one. And then a hundred sail, before invisible, started out of the vapory horizon, and pressed toward the shore. It was morning, indeed, and some of the best society in Greyport, having been up all night, were thinking it was time ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... to mention Uncle Remus. Neither had he any fancy for the kind of talk that prevails at "pink teas" and high functions of society in general. Anything that would be appropriate to the topics introduced in such places would never occur to him, and the vapory nothingness was so filled with mysterious terrors for him that he fled ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett


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