Those who talk of "frightfulness" and get their notions of German soldiers from the vaporings of sedentary publicists, who know no more of them than may be seen through the pipe smoke of their own editorial rooms, are destined to a melancholy awakening.

She felt as if she could have borne almost anything but thisthe idea of her father vaporing before a picture of the Madonna.

" Writing to William and Dorothy Wordsworth on September 28, 1805, Lamb remarked regarding his literary plans:"Sometimes I think of a farcebut hitherto all schemes have gone off,an idle brag or two of an evening vaporing out of a pipe, and going off in the morningbut now I have bid farewell to my 'Sweet Enemy' Tobacco, as you will see in my next page, I perhaps shall set soberly to work.

But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.

You are constantly vaporing to me about Louis XII.