That was a very doubtful possibility; the hope built upon it was vaporously unsubstantial.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner
It had come as a rainbow does, and disappeared as vaporously, little by little, before the full glare of might.
"Mary Magdalen"
Edgar Saltus
The harbor was now as calm as a pond, except for the pink and dove color running vaporously on the back of a long swell from the south.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
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