vapors

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away. John Donne

Away with those perfumes that do me harm! I hate them, nurse, and would you have me feel Their drunken vapors make my senses reel? Stéphane Mallarmé

He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,-when their sun shines, dance,-and when their vapors rise, sit in the shadow. Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors. Ilona Andrews

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. Ray Bradbury

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow