"Vapors" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sparrow, that's all, and have been indulging in the 'vapors.'" She squeezed her friend's hand. "Let's have ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... vapors are near his lips, And close to his wire-net lamp, Unseen, as an evil spirit comes, Up ...
— Wreaths of Friendship - A Gift for the Young • T. S. Arthur and F. C. Woodworth
... feel; for 'tis not feeling, This standing motionless upon the golden Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams, Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista, And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid empurpled vapors, far away To where the prospect ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
... that was erst the haunt Of savage bears, into a home for man; Extirpated the dragon's brood, that wont To rise, distent with venom, from the swamps; Rent the thick misty canopy that hung Its blighting vapors on the dreary waste; Blasted the solid rock; across the chasm Thrown the firm bridge for the wayfaring man. By the possession of a thousand years The soil is ours. And shall an alien lord, Himself a vassal, dare to venture here, Insult us by our own hearth fires—attempt ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... wherein her whole workmanship is abridged; where you may see earth kindled into fire, the fire breathe out an exhalation, which entering in at the mouth walks through the regions of a man's brain, drives out all ill vapors but itself, draws down all bad humors by the mouth, which in time might breed a scab over the whole body, if already they have not; a plant of singular use; for, on the one side Nature being an enemy to vacuity and emptiness ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
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