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• The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[...]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
• For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
• a fit of vapours
• to vapour away a heated fluid
• He'd laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.
• He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
• then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.
• He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.
• Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters.
• 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber