"Vapourish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have a great mind to tell you that I am 'uncomfortable,' if only to make you come to town; where no one ever more delighted in seeing you, nor is there any one to whom I would sooner turn for consolation in my most vapourish moments. The truth is, I have 'no lack of argument' to ponder upon of the most gloomy description, but this arises from other causes. Some day or other, when we are veterans, I may tell you a tale of present and past times; and it is not from ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... leaving: So loth to part from her he loves, From those fair charms that bind him; He turns his eye where'er he roves, To her he's left behind him. When, round the bowl, of other dears He talks, with joyous seeming, His smiles resemble vapourish tears, So faint, so sad their beaming; While memory brings him back again, Each early tie that twin'd him, How sweet's the cup that circles then, To her ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... Altdorff, I am not in a mood for much drink. Give us a touch of those chords. I feel sad at times, and vapourish." ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... novels, poems, and all manner of such-like vapouring and vapourish schemes are floating in my head, which at the same time aches with the thought of parting from you, and is perplext at the idea of I-cannot-tell-what-about notion that I have not made you half so comfortable as I ought ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas
... and all manner of such-like vapouring and vapourish schemes are floating in my head, which at the same time aches with the thought of parting from you, and is perplext at the idea of I-cannot-tell-what-about notion that I have not made you half so comfortable as I ought to have done, and a melancholy ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas |
