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.

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

'Tisn't often that I let that croaking old bogy, Madam might have been, trouble me; but I cannot help thinking that if, fifteen years ago, I had listened to his vapourings more, and bullied him about them less, he might have been here still.

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.

There are some who profess to attach importance to the goose-billed mouthings and vapourings of the butter-brained crew who follow in the wake of the most notorious professor of humbugging pomposity that even this age, rich as it is in putty-faced impostors, has ever produced.

" "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.