But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his
vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.
For even when coming into slight contact with the outer,
vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
The effect was as when the light,
vapory clouds, with their soft coloring, suddenly vanish from the stony brow of a precipitous mountain, and leave there the frown which you at once feel to be eternal.
Her rays, no longer filtered through the
vapory atmosphere of the terrestrial globe, shone through the glass, filling the air in the interior of the projectile with silvery reflections.
A few birds hovered over the leafy bosom of the valley, frightened from their secluded nests; and here and there a light
vapory cloud, which seemed already blending with the atmosphere, arose above the trees, and indicated some spot where the struggle had been fierce and stationary.
All this while the new creature had been sucking in and exhaling the
vapory fragrance of his pipe, and seemed now to continue this occupation as much for the enjoyment it afforded as because it was an essential condition of his existence.
GOES-13 16 km Geostationary Water
Vapory Imagery for Tropical Storm Lee, September 04, 2011