How To Use Vaporous In A Sentence
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Using the sources of heat before mentioned, and employing diathermanous lenses, or silvered minors, to render the rays from those sources parallel, the absorption of radiant heat was determined, first for the liquid layer, and then for its equivalent vaporous layer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
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a vaporous bog
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Vaporous evening light dapples with shadows the descent to the ford as the path runs through tree-roots and, among the tree-roots, reeds and dangling ivy-trails edged in silver light.
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“In that late solary eclipse which happened on Christmas day, when the Moone was just under the Sunne, I plainly discerned that in her which may clearely confirme what the Comets and Sunne spots doe seeme to prove, _viz. _ that the heavens are not solid, nor freed from those changes which our aire is liable unto, for about the Moone I perceived such an orbe of vaporous aire, as that is which doth encompasse our earth, and as vapours and exhalations, are raised from our earth into this aire, so are they also from the Moone.”
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
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It was hasped for a lock, but there was none; the lid rose easily on oiled brass hinges, and a whiff of camphor floated out, vaporous as a jinn.
Drums of Autumn
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I breathed deep, taking in the scent of pollen blown from the wild grass, and carried in vaporous clouds over the larger tussocks, past a grazing antelope and onwards over the rolling hillocks as far as we could see.
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Exhaust vaporous wastes through a pipe.
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Any face might look out from that mist, any white feet of nymph or hamadryad pass among the glimmering aisles; in the dim, lilac-tinted distance it may be that Merlin still sleeps in his vaporous magic circle.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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The samples were examined uncoated with a gaseous secondary electron detector within a water vaporous environment.
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Returning to her strengths, Uchida offered the sarabande from Bach's French Suite in G as an encore, its simple outlines traced with hushed reverence, nothing more than a vaporous shimmer.
Mitsuko Uchida at the Music Center at Strathmore
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It was years later when Mark began to phone suddenly, out of the vaporous, evanescent blue.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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vaporous clouds
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Bassett, with his own eyes, saw color and colors transform into sound till the whole visible surface of the vast sphere was acrawl and titillant and vaporous with what he could not tell was color or was sound.
The Red One
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Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.
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His time in the war rose between us like a vaporous cloud that silenced his pain and obscured my ability to understand it.
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It was years later when Mark began to phone suddenly, out of the vaporous, evanescent blue.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament.
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What's harder to accept, from an author for whom character has always been paramount, is the lack of dimensionality in both Hector and Sylvie, who manage to seem vaporous and wooden at the same time ...
The Surrendered: Summary and book reviews of The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee.
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The Australian ‘Nilagiris’ owe their name to a vaporous blue haze exuded by the eucalyptus gum.
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It was years later when Mark began to phone suddenly, out of the vaporous, evanescent blue.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
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Of course, I know that an odour of peach-blossom in the air, resulting in death, could only be associated with some vaporous effluvium of cyanogen, or of hydrocyanic ( 'prussic') acid, or of both; and when I at last managed to examine some of the dust under the microscope, I was not therefore surprised to find, among the general mass of purplish ash, a number of bright-yellow particles, which could only be minute crystals of potassic ferrocyanide.
The Purple Cloud
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vaporous silks
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An upthrust mountain at center is bathed in an explosion of sulfurous yellow rising above a vaporous veil of green, with the pale-lavender light of something like moonrise off to the right.
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A vaporous grey mist had entirely usurped the heavens, and the plash of weary rain resounded through the pluvious metropolis of the west.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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Otherwise we get a philosophy that tends to become insubstantial and vaporous.
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That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization.
Gambara