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Meanings of vapours in English

A state of depression.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "blues"
        Examples for "blues"
        1
        Yet these days it is not just children who experience back-to-school blues.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Mick is one of the best natural blues harp players I've heard.
        Life
        3
        Róisín Ingle explains how to beat New Year blues on a budget.
        The Irish Times
        4
        They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
        Ebony
        5
        To understand the traveling blues you need to be locked down somewhere.
        Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
        1
        The aim is a coalescing of different cultural vapors into something solid.
        Wired
        2
        The whole mountain was enveloped in clouds of volcanic ashes and vapors.
        The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
        3
        Male and female mice were exposed to 3 days of ethanol vapors.
        Pubmed
        4
        A furnace pilot light may have ignited the butane vapors, he said.
        Reuters
        5
        The vapors came welling up over his cupped hand, heavy and rich.
        Cities in Flight
        1
        I am sick of her megrims and her vapours and her humours.
        Come Rack! Come Rope!
        2
        The trenches were damp and unhealthy, the intervening years full of megrims.
        The new yorker
        3
        How did you manage to clear your head of those confounded megrims?
        Armadale
        4
        Beatrice Coddington had an attack of the megrims and remained in her room.
        Madcap
        5
        You watch a girl who has an attack of the megrims.
        Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
        1
        By all of the blue devils it's good to see you, sir!
        Logos Run
        2
        The specially contemporary spirits are not only devils, they are blue devils.
        Tremendous Trifles
        3
        We're a glorious combination against the blue devils, that's what we are.
        The Purple Land / Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve...
        4
        Also I once knew a man who had the blue devils.
        A Dominie in Doubt
        5
        Darkness isn't wholesome-tooconducive to low spirits and the blue devils.
        The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
        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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