vapor

• Is this my last song The sun sets behind the cliffs; sinks in a long, dark shroud of vapor--on every side his rays pour blood into the valley. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• She saw a mist come stealing softly along a precipitous gorge; the gauzy web hung shimmering in the moon; presently the trees were invisible; anon they showed rigid among the soft enmeshment of the vapor, and again were lost to view She rose; there was a new energy in her step; she walked quickly across the floor and unbarred the door The little cabin on the mountain was lost among the clouds. —  His "Day In Court" 1895
• A slant of sunshine fell on the surging vapor, and it gleamed opalescent. —  A Chilhowee Lily 1911
• Down, down, a hot gust of vapor--a stifling sensation--a concussion upon the iron floor at the foot of the shaft; a multitude of twinkling lamps, of fiends, of grimy faces, and no bodies--and we are in a coal-mine There was a black, bituminous seat for visitors, sculptured out of the coal, just beyond the shaft, and to this we were led by the carboniferous fiends. —  Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
• As vapor are all my chattels and my acres, and the more my dominion and my power increase, the more rancorously does my heart sustain its misery, being robbed of that fair merchandise which is the King of England's. —  Chivalry

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