vapoury

Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear.

Poems and Fragments 2006

Into nullity winds far to remove, vapoury clouds to bear.

Poems and Fragments 2006

How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature of all sensible things, and particularly those which attract with the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they are — all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty to observe.

The Meditations 2004

Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Western minds who follow the Eastern way become weak and vapoury, because unfit for the work forced upon them by Western life.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Slight vapoury clouds sailed smoothly over the clear sky, scarcely obscuring the sun, and at times a downpour of rain fell suddenly in sheets, and was as quickly over.

Rudin 2003

The yellow gas-flames arose before his troubled vision against the vapoury sky, burning as if before an altar.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

Smoke went up from the whole earth, from the vapoury oceans, smoke of her praise.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003