vapour

• My mind had nothing in it but hot vapour, and vapour-filled bubbles frothed and eddied round a vortex of lazy fancy, aimless and unmeaning. —  My Reminiscences
• A light vapour, the lightest, airiest of the airiest, swept gently along the surface of the ground, but as if unimpelled by any secret influence. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• His imagination, escaped from the narrow prison of his thought, rises like a vapour, and, taking shape before his eyes, proclaims itself his master No other poet has known so well how to portray, in a few strokes, effects of multitude and vastness. —  Milton
• The sun rose in vapour, the sky threatened, but they were free and happy. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
• I raised the glass again, and after observing this cloud for some time with great attention, I felt assured that what I considered to be long lines of vapour was an immense flock of birds This discovery interested me--I forgot the intensity of my sufferings in observing the motions of this apparently endless flock. —  The Little Savage

Used in the Same Context