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Meanings of vapours in English

A state of depression.

        Usage of vapours in English
        1
        The clouds solidified; the vapours thickened; the trailing veils stayed and accumulated.
        Jacob's Room
        2
        Yet even now the clouds were floating round her and the vapours.
        Flames
        3
        Her rivers and oceans send up vapours in which she is clothed.
        The Home and the World
        4
        The barometer fell sensibly, and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours.
        Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
        5
        I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
        Come Rack! Come Rope!
        6
        The curtain of flickering vapours, striped with luminous rays, is rent asunder.
        An Antarctic Mystery
        7
        Above its expanse project superior fumaroles, their drifting vapours dissolving great areas.
        London River
        8
        The two realities coexist in my captivated attention, like two mingled vapours.
        The book of disquiet
        9
        Hot air, and noxious vapours, and steam, and smoke came rushing up.
        Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
        10
        He vapours about self-destruction, he hints at dark troubles with his wife.
        Regeneration / Being an Account of the Social Work of The Salvat...
        11
        For after all, sir, these Sylphs are but vapours of your brain.
        The Queen Pedauque
        12
        E-cigarettes emit vapours, and models that include nicotine are illegal in New Zealand.
        Radio NZ
        13
        There was a real terror in the malodorous vapours which exhaled from him.
        The Soul of the War
        14
        Want of success sours us; but a little sunshine smiles away the vapours.
        Ernest Maltravers — Volume 05
        15
        An insanity carried by the unhealthy vapours of the rains and the land.
        Blood and Bone
        16
        The machine worked, leaving trails of blue light behind it in whirling vapours.
        Future Lovecraft
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