It taught me the obviousthat all this idle, vapouring talk was common enough among men of this class, so common that it would hardly justify a murder, would hardly explain an unwarranted intrusion on those who employed me.

Muckle John was so filled with his vapourings that I could readily slip off down the burn and join the southern highway at the village of Linton.

I put aside your socialistic vapourings of courseevery fellow to his fadI see in you the makings of a canny business man.

"You talk about what's in the blood," Gray said finally, "and then you make light of my socialistic vapourings, as you call them.

I'm afraid the socialistic vapourings are the true expression of the animal.

To the English mind the German political doctrine is so incredibly stupid that for many long years, while men in high authority in the German Empire, ministers, generals, and professors, expounded that doctrine at great length and with perfect clearness, hardly any one could be found in England to take it seriously, or to regard it as anything but the vapourings of a crazy sect.

Having thus vapoured away the paroxysm of his fury, he became tolerably composed.

In Hazlitt's fine account of "The Fight," Hickman or the Gas-Man, "vapoured and swaggered too much, as if he wanted to grin and bully his adversary out of the fight."

It was a rebuke of fate to his own illogical and useless vapourings.

Yet for all his vapouring and his violence he was so good a companion, with such a stream of strange anecdote and reminiscence, that Scarrow and Morgan had never known a voyage pass so pleasantly.

The talk went on for four solid hoursvain, vapouring talk, during which steam was blown off.

A fine speech, leaving one in doubt whether it is the outburst of a real hero or the vapouring of a half-drunken man.

They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun without a hat.

"He now is dead, and all his glorie gone, And all his greatnes vapoured to nought, That as a glasse upon the water shone, 220 Which vanisht quite so soone as it was sought.

When such threats come to nothing, it is generally difficult to say whether they were all mere vapouring, or whether they might have led to serious results, if not promptly met; but at one time, at least, there appears to have been solid ground for apprehending that real mischief was intended.

Nothing to us proves Nicoll's heart-wholeness more than the way in which he talks of his benefactors, in a tone of simple gratitude and affection, without fawning and without vapouring.

At your own request We come to hear your self-imposed vows And now you shrink: where are the high-flown fancies Which but last week, beside your husband's bier, You vapoured forth?

I warrant you, now, some honest man's son is sent aboard his ship for a dry nurse, in the shape of a first lieutenant, and we shall have him vapouring, all dinner time, about 'how my ship does this,' and 'I never suffer that.'

But these were but post-prandial vapourings, and Colonel Dearman never talked nor thought any such folly when the Corps was present to the eye of flesh.

you have got out of the bottle again, and are swelling and vapouring up to the clouds.

But it is of no use to go vapouring on about these big schemes, because in a democracy people won't do what philosophers wish, but what they want.

Russia won't be mended by a few vapouring idiots who talk and talk without taking action.

But I say that we have had enough of all this vapouring talk, all this pretence of courage.

; Some vapoured in the unruliness of joy, And with their swords flourished as if to fight The saucy air.

" "We laugh to scorn these idle vapourings," said Sir Giles; "and were it permitted," he added, touching his sword, "I myself would find an easy way to silence them.