We had long regarded the wanderers as
vapory creations of inconceivable tenuity, and as altogether incapable of doing injury to our substantial globe, even in the event of contact.
Months later their
vapory is about to move from concept, through planning and into reality.
1385), claiming that "one cry" of his "from my heart to heaven" would erect a "monument of anguish to transpierce / And overtop your
vapory complaints" (11.
A long time ago, Somalia would now and again pole-vault into my obsessive recall, with its miragey aridness forming instantaneously into a
vapory realness, and its thorny trees puncturing the air mattresses of my nightly visions.
Captain Vere gives a silent signal and "At the same moment it chanced that the
vapory fleece hanging low in the East was shot through with a soft glory as of the fleece of the Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, and simultaneously therewith, watched by the wedged mass of upturned faces, Billy ascended; and, ascending, took the full rose of the dawn." In the final chapter, Melville adds that
The ribs were hung with trophies; the vertebrae were carved with Arsacidean annals, in strange hieroglyphics; in the skull, the priests kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head again sent forth its
vapory spout; while, suspended from a bough, the terrific lower jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung sword that so affrighted Damocles.
But he found that he was "imbued with all the
vapory dictums they put in you of arrogance, of feeling that, since you went to the Harvard Business School, you were a master of the universe.