Resembling or characteristic of vapor.
1 If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
2 The conception is generally vague, vapourish , and metaphysical.
3 A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
4 I feel sad at times, and vapourish .
5 In it I acquainted her with the house I was about taking; and with Mrs. Fretchville's vapourish delays.
6 Now this letter gives the servant the small-pox: and she has given it to her unhappy vapourish lady.
7 He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish , the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.
8 Sir Willoughby dispersed her vapourish confusion.
9 She was a wishy-washy person, sentimental, vapourish , altogether feeble, and she intensely admired Ida Palliser's vigorous young beauty.
10 But a man cannot be ill, or vapourish , but thou liftest up thy shriek-owl note, and killest him immediately.
11 A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.
12 Post-card pictures had given them no idea of the energy of her large gesture, or how her heaviness becomes light among the vapourish elements.
13 'Yes, yes; but George Sand was such a peremptory fellow, and Musset such a vapourish young person.
14 If he do marry, he doubts he shall have a vapourish wife.
15 The conception is generally vague, vapourish , and metaphysical.
16 A man had better be plagued with all the curses of Egypt than with a vapourish wife.
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