There was no salve on his mouth; cloud was mere vapor to his head.

"The spirit is enveloped in a substance which would appear to you as mere vapor, but which, nevertheless, appears very gross to us, thought it is sufficiently vaporous to allow the spirit to float in the atmosphere, and to transport himself through space at pleasure."

After a moment he said, "All this talk is mere vapor.

And yet, when I held it with all the strength I had, it became mere vapor, and escaped from me... And so it will again, and yet it cannot really escape, for I can always find it.

She had done her best to ignore it, to argue herself into dismissing it as mere womanish vapors, to dissipate her restlessness in games of chance or dancing lessons, activities deemed proper for a lady of her rank.

No new AmigaOne boards are being produced, and while Amiga Inc. has announced that new, licensed, hardware for OS4 is underway, such announcements have been mere vapor so far.

But the rising sun turned it into mere dark vapour, a doubtful, massive shadow trembling in the hot glare.

It was as though the clouds were not themselves mere vapour but impermeable sagging sacks, purposely constructed and hung to contain water.

He is bloodless, and what should be solid in him is mere vapor.

Clouds, he thought, are mere vapor, air and water, no substance to them at all.