As this cloud advanced, descending to the sands while it rose toward the heavens, it grew more black; and on either side were long columns of seeming vapor rising, and as rapidly disappearing.
"Dick in the Desert"
James Otis
The covers are then drawn down and the vapor bath taken.
"The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians"
Clark Wissler
If these bodies had been deeply immersed in this atmosphere its resistance to their motion would have made them fall into the sun, and we may therefore conjecture that the planets were formed, one by one, at the outer limits of the solar atmosphere by the condensation of zones of vapor which were cast off in the plane of the sun's equator.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock