He screwed the top on quickly and tightly, jealous even of a drop which might evaporate in this sponge-air.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
So, too, the absence of an atmosphere shows that there can be no water or other liquid upon the moon, for if so it would immediately evaporate and produce a gaseous envelope which we have seen does not exist.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Well, words which do not eventually take form as facts only evaporate into thin air, and we cannot conceive the Divine Ideals of Man doing this.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward