| 单词 | impalpable |
| 例句 | And, yet, out of it all, over and above all that had happened, impalpable but real, there remained to him a queer sense of power. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When there was a blizzard, needles of icy air blew in through the vents, elaborately protected as they were, and an impalpable dust of snow-motes fogged the air. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was exactly as if he was invisible, inaudible, impalpable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Each was blind to the other’s being, Ged as baffled by impalpable shadows as the shadow was baffled by daylight and by solid things. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.” My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Reviewing the 2014 production in The New York Times, Ben Brantley likened it to “a precise worldly expression of something impalpable and divine.” What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A Dionysian spirit is reined in and refined until it becomes a precise worldly expression of something impalpable and divine. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The ghost sides with the girl, lending an impalpable hand, and if that sounds funny — well, yes. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z I had been pushed and pulled by the dominant forces of that place, some impalpable and some visible, as it formed and forced me into the imperfect person who eventually became a mother. Mercy and grace: Reclaiming the family home lost to my father's addiction 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Through their lenses, we see different visions of the artist in his studio, surrounded by his attempts to capture something solid but impalpable about humanity. Why you should see Seattle Art Museum’s new Giacometti show 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z But how the squishy, pinkish-gray, wrinkled mass of the physical brain gives rise to these impalpable experiences remains a mystery. Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Afterward, as in Vienna, property relations were forever altered, which had an impalpable but unmistakable effect on attitudes. The War on History Is a War on Democracy 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z In a book published in connection with the program, the pope said: “Evil is not something impalpable that spreads like the fog of Milan. It’s a person, Satan.” Lost in Translation? Pope Ponders an Update to Lord’s Prayer 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Then, there are the more impalpable challenges: he hasn’t heard silence in over a year — just the constantly beating sound of the air pump — and he draws stares in public. Inside the 50-year-quest to build a mechanical heart 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “His nose is the receptacle of all manner of disgusting odors. The incense of reeking garbage, wherefrom the alchemy of sunlight is disengaging impalpable poison, arises up forever,” the 1852 article reads. New York Summer Stories: At the Turn of the Century 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Mickelson is not only relying on experience and an impalpable mojo to advance his chances this week. For Phil Mickelson, Emotions Don’t Fade, Even 10 Years and 3 Green Jackets Later 2014-04-09T01:21:54Z The incense of reeking garbage, wherefrom the alchemy of sunlight is disengaging impalpable poison, arises up forever. Heat-Struck, July 1852 2013-07-26T22:54:39Z I am aware that belief in the existence of those aërial forms, those ghostly, impalpable, and ambiguous beings, has been regarded as an evidence of mental blindness, and the absence of high culture and civilization. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z It seemed as if they had been blinded by this dust and that their soldiers were dispersed exactly the same as these impalpable atoms.... The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z The kind of testimony received was as flimsy and impalpable as the facts, or supposed facts, sought to be proved. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The distance was veiled in an impalpable haze, and water and sky merged into a soft grayish blur toward the horizon, as if smeared with a dry brush. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z It seemed as though he had struck at something impalpable as air. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z The wind slept, and a soft impalpable haze imparted a new mystery to the sea. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Their thickened saliva, mixed with impalpable dust, formed a firm paste, which the throat would not allow to pass. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Where guilt was ofttimes so shadowy and impalpable, this was evidently no easy matter. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Like some imprudent man who has dared to look at the sun and forever thereafter beholds an impalpable blot floating before his eyes, so Meïamoun ever beheld Cleopatra. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The shadow was, so to speak, impalpable; vague yet sinister. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The musket-shots not having produced the desired results, harpoons were employed, but they took no hold on the soft, impalpable flesh of the marine monster. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The atom itself which was regarded as the basis of matter fifty years ago, has now disappeared, or rather has been metamorphosed and reappears as a hypothetical, impalpable vortex. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They are dreamlike, but beyond them rise other ethereal ranges which seem to you, as you gaze on them, impalpable, fluid almost, like a lovely imagination of mountains summoned up in your mind. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A night wanderer running through bog and brake after a will-o'-the-wisp, could not have encountered more perils, or in search of a more impalpable phantom. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Abruptly, by some impalpable sign, he knew what the answer would be, and he remained still. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z This soul must be extended, light, impalpable, since in speaking with it we cannot embrace it. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Ischia grew shadowy, and then caught the most delicate light imaginable, swimming like an impalpable fairy island on a sea of darkest 250 blue. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The fibres of the beech, birch, lime, poplar, fir, and various other trees, when dried, ground, and sifted into an impalpable powder, constitute a very palatable article of food. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It would erase that blot, it would make all clean behind him, and it would at the same time remove the impalpable barrier that had risen between him and his mother. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z She moved away quickly and the Burglar looked after her with admiration and some impalpable quality other than that in his eyes. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z The outward world being removed, dissipated, resolved into impalpable thought, what substitute for it can be devised? Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But when the full moon sails clear of the Telegrafo all the rock face turns light and silvery, almost impalpable, towering up among the stars like a mountain of frosted silver rising out of fairyland. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Defoe possessed genius, and his secret is at the last as impalpable as the secret of genius always is. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z How close it shut her in, this wall of white, as impalpable and as opaque as the smoke of burning grass! The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z Think of these vast deposits caused by the slow falling of infinitesimal atoms of impalpable dust through the silent depths of ancient seas! The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The pall of the black squalor had been tightening about the girl's heart like an impalpable constrictor and almost strangling it. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z To some extent the obscuration of the noonday glare of man's waking consciousness must reveal the far-reaching faint corona of his unsuspected and impalpable powers. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The day was hot and the roads dry and beaten into impalpable powder, that rose in clouds of dust from under our feet as we marched. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z In the eyes, the queer, black, heavy-lidded eyes, there was a momentary lack alike of definite scrutiny or the soft, impalpable veil that is drawn by transitory dreams of better things. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Whether I am led to a sweet eternal sleep, or to a new incarnation of this impalpable force that fills me, I have no fear. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Into the air stole an insinuating freshness, which set the blood to a keener pulsing, and over the breast of the undulating soil hung an impalpable, but unescapable, mantle of romance. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The medium in which the phenomenon of flight is produced—the air—is an invisible, impalpable, comparatively imponderable fluid, and its density is nearly 800 times less than that of water. Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences 2011-11-24T03:00:42.240Z Ornamental bronze gilding.—This is performed by means of gold or silver, reduced to an impalpable powder, called bronze. A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. 2011-11-22T03:00:11.870Z But in general those who surrounded it saw themselves, and saw each other, not as they were, but as they appeared,—transfigured, idealised, glorified, by the impalpable, fluid, medium. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Bracebridge encouraged Henning to continue his work of soliciting, but the latter found that he was working against some impalpable obstacle to success, the nature of which he could not divine. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z Nor can their Resistance of Penetration stay those impalpable and insensible Atomes of Sand, which by reason of their exceeding small force, spend six dayes in descending the space of half a yard. Discourse on Floating Bodies 2011-10-13T02:00:45.260Z How else, save by visual and sensuous images, express such impalpable thought! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z There were moments, however, when he wearied of the mere enshrined memory—it was too impalpable and too thankless. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The halo that crowned our heads scared away the shades as we passed, like impalpable dust. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The moonlight softened and silvered everything, and the scent of the orange-blossoms gave a dreamy, exquisite, impalpable finish to the night. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z She felt about her a fostering care, immense, enveloping like the Rains, mysterious, impalpable like them. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Their spirituality enables them to do much harm to men, for being invisible and impalpable they appear rather in their effects than in their action. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z The next morning that inexplicable structure beside us began from many mouths to vomit floods of powdered phosphate into us, and the “Capella,” in and out, turned pale through an almost impalpable dust. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z It was like the phantasmagoria of delirium, utterly impalpable, but yet intensely real. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z They threw themselves upon that limp, resistless body, shell of the impalpable soul unconquered within. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z His son had always stood aloof from him, there had always been some impalpable barrier between them. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Nor may we overlook the mysterious impalpable spiritual power which effects its purposes without a touch, or even an explicit word of healing import. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z In a few moments after tasting it, the mouth dries, with a harsh unpleasant feeling as if some impalpable dusty particles had got into the substance of the tongue. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The first is the granulated, the second an impalpable powder, and the third the bran, or coarse part, remaining after sifting the second part. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z The report of a Mauser is difficult to locate to the most experienced; to the fanatics the thing was impalpable mystery. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z In 'Middlemarch,' English provincial life in the first half of the nineteenth century is indelibly fixed in words "holding a universe impalpable" for the apprehension and delight of the furthest generations of English-speaking nations. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Whereupon this modest, retiring, shrinking, impalpable gentleman went into turbulent meetings, vindictively parading the actual memorial to confront the candidate. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Time—noiseless, impalpable, yet absolute—marshals the everlasting procession of nature. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z He was the very type of the aristocrat by birth and education, who had polished his manners into an impalpable shield against the common herd. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z And probably most of us make our earliest acquaintance with these impalpable and controlling entities when we take our places in the school. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Now the night wind stirs it, and now a sudden breeze carries the cinereous corpse away, fluttering it to dust impalpable.” John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Their forms seemed to linger, long after the forms that cast them had mouldered into impalpable dust. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Now an impalpable presence reproached him—separated him, as it were, from Isabel. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z In the stirless, suave, and aromatic air hung an impalpable yet ineluctable hint of melancholy.... Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Now the sand-spouts which had been flung upwards, rained on us in fine, almost impalpable dust, that scorched where it fell. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Supernatural, luminous, impalpable, naked, and pure, the vision floated upon the stone, palpitated gently. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Then stars and planets, suns and worlds were transparent ether, as impalpable as the viewless air, and scattered as star-dust in the measureless void of space along the forgotten highways of the eternities. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Suddenly he was cast down, depressed by something impalpable. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Something more than twenty-five years ago, mysterious raps on cottage walls and furniture were traced to cause which, while invisible and impalpable, could count TEN. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Motion is change of place, whether it be of large, palpable masses, as when the arm is raised, or of minute impalpable molecules, as when heat or electricity is at work. The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:36.420Z Expression is essentially ideal: what expression tries to make felt, is not what the eye can see and the hand touch, evidently it is something invisible and impalpable. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The loose, vague, indefinite and impalpable charges permissible, seemingly, on military trials, gave place to plain and simple allegations, such as an accused person might reasonably be expected to be able to meet. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z "In my dreams or reveries, I know not which, it has floated often, shrouded as it is now, impalpable, a phantom of spars and fog." Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z As with Joan of Arc and many others, so with this woman; the inner ear could hear voices from some source impalpable by external senses. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Confidence in future friends, and contempt of present foes, may have induced him to leave his highest achievements impalpable and obscure. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z There were reasons of a more impalpable kind than the solidity of its floors and roofs, which made Mrs. Dobbs constant to her old home. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z In spite of ourselves we expect something to appear, something unearthly, impalpable, and unresponsive to those tests we apply to the known and understood. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z We are bred to show a quiet freedom from amazement, and why should we boggle at material Mermaids, with Dewars solidifying all sorts of impalpable things and Marconi waves spreading everywhere? The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Where complete combustion occurs the residue is but an impalpable powder. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z But however it may be envisaged, it is at once impalpable and material, something that can be perceived by the senses and yet eludes the grasp. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Slowly the colors grew tender and a subtle, impalpable mist rose from the water, through which the boat drifted before an imperceptible breeze. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Science, which affects to dote on the material, is everywhere brought up short by impalpable but adamantine gates of which God alone holds the key. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Down in that deep there stirred impalpable things. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z Reasons there were, but of such an impalpable nature that even those who most rigorously shunned her, ventured not to speak openly against her. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z The pulverized wreck of this community lay all about him, but he opened its impalpable doors and stepped once more into its warm humanity. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z Their folds, dense, opaque, impalpable, filled the vastness. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z But as the spring advanced, a shade of sadness crept over her happiness, a film like the impalpable dust that gathers on a fine picture hanging always in the light. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Shall we have to put back the clock for an hour, in order to foil the designs of your impalpable foe? The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Instantly, from the umbrella-like mass of pulp overhead, a fine and impalpable powder fell upon him like snow. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z In the almost impalpable powder that sometimes constitutes the rocks, we can trace the slightest erosion and comminution of the strata from which the deposit was worn. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Armed with two rifles each, we stealthily advanced against the wind, under the cover afforded by the dry copse wood, which yielded up a cloud of impalpable dust, and rendered the inclination to sneeze incessant. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z It may have been a presentiment, or merely an idle fancy, but something whispered in my ear—some impalpable presence warned me—that I had not yet heard the last of her. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z But poor Isabel's heroes were impalpable tyrants, and ruled her life. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z “A ghost must necessarily be impalpable; then, how can it be real?” Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z He had so longed to see her, and now an impalpable barrier had somehow arisen between them which separated them more completely than mere bricks and mortar, than any distance could have done. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z Thrice, as I stood, I essayed to fling my arms round her neck—thrice the phantom escaped the hands that caught at it in vain—impalpable as the wind, fleeting as the wings of sleep. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Every plough-furrow becomes the bed of a rivulet after heavy rains—these uniting are increased into torrents, before which the impalpable soil dissolves like ice under a summer's sun. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z It was impossible to judge of distances; everything was white, shining, impalpable. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z Why, then, did this meteoric shower powder Mesopotamia so densely and sprinkle a dust so impalpable over the Sudan? The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The room seemed to fill with an impalpable, brooding Vapour, as if a thick fog were falling outside. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z He likes to be not only his own Alpha and Omega, but to be distinctly all the intermediate gradations, and then to slope off on his own spine either way, into the endless impalpable ether. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z This dust, which when rubbed between the thumb and forefinger would be impalpable, would sometimes nearly cover the entire deck and rigging. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z An impalpable vapor steamed up from the moist plants and bathed the ruins in a dream-like haze, as the blurred waters of the ocean engulf and make fantastic the myriad rock-palaces of the sea-bottoms. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Lyricism is magic and the precious possession of a spiritual communion which finds its deepest enjoyment in just these almost impalpable elements. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z He felt very pleased, and followed him into the passage, but no sooner had he done so than an impalpable cloud of distrust seemed to settle upon him. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z In our ordinary efforts to conceive it, invisible and impalpable as it is, we are apt to try so strenuously to divorce it from the notion of substance that it seems ethereal, unreal, ghostlike. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z The spirit world, its exact impalpable counterpart, would continue as before and Metrobe’s hoard would be spiritually intact and available. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Its strength lies in its vaporous quality; like an odourless but deadly gas, pervasive but impalpable. The spectre of laissez-faire stalks Britain 2010-06-20T16:00:00Z Just as in the reigns of Theodosius and Honorius, imperial edicts and rescripts were paralysed by the impalpable, quietly irresistible force of a universal social need or sentiment. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In grinding soap to an impalpable powder the difficulties increase. Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. Ships at anchor, barges drifting up and down, were aglow with the sheen of evening—the water a tawny, molten flood, the still atmosphere like an impalpable dust of gold. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise The red of the sky threw its glow on her face and spread an impalpable halo of dusty rays behind her. Woman Sometimes he would succeed so well for a flash that it only made the impalpable but stern barrier of personality more definite even while almost seeming to overleap it. Beggars on Horseback He may be viewed as the ubiquitous, impalpable force, which may, in the lack of more accurate expression, be called air, ether, fire. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Finally, in transcendental idealism, the poles meet; what has been put eternally apart is eternally united; the immaterial, impalpable, transcendent heaven is made one and continuous with the gross and unhappy natural world. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude There seemed something to be drunken like an impalpable spiritual elixir. The Cottage of Delight A Novel As rapid and impalpable as those whirling atoms, was the vortex in her brain. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales We are fairly content as it is; why should we weary ourselves by straining after the higher good, which seems thin, impalpable, and may easily elude our hand? Misread Passage of Scriptures Gud could not hear the ghost cat howl, but he knew that it was howling because with his seventh sense he felt the vibration of its howl quivering through the impalpable and ghostly ether. The Book of Gud The present seemed something sombre, desolate, and impalpable; the future something absolutely void. The Gambler A Novel It dissolves in acids with effervescence, and leaves a residue of hydrated oxide of iron, granular iron, impalpable grains of silex, and small crystals of quartz. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology If ye are blind to these earthly signs, what hope is there of your understanding things eternal in their own impalpable essence? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I But he was so distinctly capable, and there was such an utter absence of tangible reason for his dismissal that he remained in his place, a constant, though impalpable, source of irritation. Thirty A sea-fog had come in to obliterate Trewinnard and even the sparkling month of June, creating a new and impalpable world, a strange undated season. Carnival An impalpable veil seemed to screen his scowling face. Ewing\\'s Lady Although this volcanic dust when it fell was an impalpable powder, it was of considerable weight when compressed, a pint of it weighing twelve ounces and three quarters. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology But it was far away and almost impalpable, pain understood rather than felt. Quest of the Golden Ape The change was in the air; impalpable yet real; Katrine’s sensitive nature felt it in every fibre, inhaled it with every breath. An Unknown Lover She did not practice the meditation of age, infirmity and death; when these spectres confronted her, she dismissed them as too impalpable to count. Carnival We might have rested, and even slept, on the impalpable air, but duty forbade us any such luxury. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The one is, perhaps, charged with calcareous, the other with argillaceous matter; or one sweeps down sand and pebbles, the other impalpable mud. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It could be lifted in impalpable laminæ on sheets of paper. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But it slipped through his fingers like an impalpable mist. The Sphere of Sleep They were the most impalpable of substances, only their bare outline visible against the white background. Mate in Two Moves People often got into the wrong hotel beds, but rarely with such impalpable excuses. Forsyte's Retreat It was this impalpable manner which made Dexter indignant. Anne Liberty, hitherto an impalpable idea, a mere phantom in the brains of a few philosophers, proved able to call up armies at a word, able physically to hold its own against embattled despotism. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 This material ranges all the way from huge boulders to the finest impalpable dust, called volcanic ashes. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Women, hitherto disquietingly solid, became impalpable as the Queens of Castile whom it was treason to touch. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Take some white gum arabic, reduce it to an impalpable powder, in a brass mortar; dissolve it in strong brandy, and add a little common water to render it more liquid. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments Now and then, she almost clasped it, and her soul swooned, but something intangible, impalpable ever waved her back. Seeds of Pine A good dryer for printers’ use is made by taking a small quantity of perfectly dry acetate of lead or borate of manganese in impalpable powder will hasten the drying of the ink. Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades And sensing it—that evanescent, impalpable, but infinitely promising thing—she saw the future shining through the present. The Torch Bearer Does the impalpable take form and substance here? Toilers of the Sea His face was scarcely whiter with the impalpable souvenirs of the road than was his slate-coloured mohair duster. The Destroying Angel The print over which I was poring would last long enough; why should the idea in my mind, which was finer, more impalpable, perish before it? A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time A small quantity of perfectly dry acetate of lead or borate of manganese in impalpable powder will hasten the drying of the ink. Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades Range after range extended to the eastward, pine-clad, with deep valleys intervening; to the south some great rocky summits, blue, impalpable, mysterious, upon the verge of the horizon. The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine We are convinced and oppressed—we feel, we know not what dark evidence within us; we realise nothing, but are crushed by the impalpable. Toilers of the Sea To the end it remained an impalpable grievance with her that she made no impression upon her dear friend's husband. Command No writer can do more than precipitate his conception in his words; if the conception itself is essentially airy and impalpable, so must the story be airy and impalpable. The Technique of Fiction Writing She evidently felt the impalpable rudeness of the faded woman, and knew how to resent it in the same way. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Grease spots, especially when very recent, can sometimes be drawn out by an absorbent powder such as impalpable clay or chalk. Book Repair and Restoration One prayer concludes thus: “Live and reign forever in all peace and repose thou who art our lord, our shelter, our comfort, who art most kind, most bountiful, invisible and impalpable!” The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations It was very simple in appearance—an impalpable three-foot glowing sphere with a squat metallic cylinder at its base. The Reluctant Weapon For the rest, that part of New York’s great waterway was dim and impalpable. The Bartlett Mystery To my growing morbidness it seemed that over the beauty of the place hung an impalpable but certain curse. The Portal of Dreams She was turned away from 86 him completely: a lovely back, straight and narrow, virginal—Domingo Escobar had said this—as a white rose bud, yet with an impalpable and seductive scent. The Bright Shawl But always there is a barrier between her and me; a barrier impalpable yet unpassable. The Red Symbol An impalpable something in the tones and words stilled everybody into seriousness. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys They could feel and see its warm flesh, its hair and clothing, and even while they held it it melted again into the impalpable air, and was gone. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. None could be more fitted for a tribute to as impalpable a love as I acknowledged. The Portal of Dreams This was a light smooth insipid earth of a yellow colour, fat between the fingers, insipid and impalpable, which being dried, weighed 93 grains. The Annals of Willenhall She had said nothing, but in some impalpable yet intimate way he knew that she, too, was bored, that the Colonel bored her. The Return of the Prodigal A cloud of almost impalpable dust spread broadly and shrouded the sun. Doubloons—and the Girl Then, as though moved by some jealousy of the impalpable, Judas leaned forward and peered into her face. Mary Magdalen It was Virginia, who leaned so gently on his arm, that not the slight pressure of her weight, but rather the impalpable shock of bliss her very nearness brought, made him aware of her approach. Cudjo's Cave Again, that the impalpable ether of the interstellar spaces, is the medium of existence for the spiritual world. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century It might be a momentary defence against the impalpable terrors of the night. Old Crow But in some impalpable way she seemed to have withdrawn within herself. Doubloons—and the Girl Somewhere, on the north-west horizon, a vision, heavenly, but impalpable, aerial, indistinct, of the Greatest Possible Danger. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium It seems an unreal pleasure-garden, with a shadowy guardian—impalpable to us gross moderns—called Honour, but where, as it seems, Love only reigns. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II It revealed naught of the earth, save here and there a headland, as it were, thrusting out its dark, narrow, attenuated demesne into the impalpable main. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories But she would not have recalled the little missile hurled at the impalpable ghost through the shade of removedness that enveloped her. Old Crow And the States'-man relieved his feelings subsequently by whittling a stick from the firewood into impalpable chips, with his heels resting on the apex of the saloon stove. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement If you could examine its contents at this moment you would find nothing there but that shining vision of danger, the siege of Antwerp, indistinct, impalpable, aerial. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium There was the faintest possible residue, like a coating of impalpable dust. The Hate Disease She could see nothing—the impalpable blackness reached far down into the depths of the cañon, far out into the space above the land and the sea. Clark's Field Was her presence so etched in impalpable tracery on the air that he ought to feel it? Old Crow That cry of St. Augustine has found its echo in unnumbered souls, and our humanity will never be satisfied while it is offered no more than an impalpable abstraction for the contentment of its craving. God and the World A Survey of Thought The sculpture of the Renaissance, not satisfied with having portrayed the real human being made of flesh and blood, of bone and skin, dark-eyed or flaxen-haired, embodied in the marble the impalpable forms of dreams. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Grasmere, Aberystwith, Stratford-on-Avon, Freshwater Bay and the Lizard—with dreadful precision these teeming hives of English industry were laid waste, incinerated, scattered to the winds in fine impalpable dust. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 This same Jesus is coming again, not a phantom, not an impalpable spirit, not a ghost Christ, but a Christ who is a real man of real flesh and real bones. Why I Preach the Second Coming It has, indeed, been suggested that at absolute zero all matter may take the form of an impalpable powder, the forces of cohesion being destroyed with the vibrations of heat. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science She knew that this consciousness was in their hearts as well as in hers, and that it made an impalpable but positive barrier. A Manifest Destiny It has not the perfume of the distilled and concentrated, but the all but impalpable odor of the open air, the shore, the wood, the hilltop. Whitman A Study And afterwards I would spend long hours in recalling and analyzing those nothings, questioning their nothingness, making out of things too submerged and impalpable for the rough drags of recollection, promises and indications. The Passionate Friends In both cases we seem to have got entirely out of the region of real human passions and senses into a world, beautiful perhaps, but certainly impalpable. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Beyond this, he felt a vague impression, impalpable and formless, of some connection between that woman and former events of his own life. Mabel's Mistake Most of the species become pulverulent, and the spores are easily diffused through the air like an impalpable dust. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses "For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth, Any more than such are to Religion." Whitman A Study Over the great Goonhilly Downs a silvery sheen trembled with impalpable colour and the gorse everywhere was breaking into gold. Tante And, inversely, a great mind and a noble nature may show itself by impalpable but recognisable signs within the 'sonnet's scanty plot of ground.' Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It seemed as if some vague impalpable barrier had been erected between them, and Lettice puzzled herself from time to time to know how this barrier had been set up. Name and Fame A Novel Snow-cowled, and almost impalpable above the ground mist, the great range of mountains looks like the curtain wall of a stronghold of mystics. Westward with the Prince of Wales The evolution of interest in science is from simple, obvious and tangible problems to more intricate and impalpable researches. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type The almost impalpable white of an azalea with its flame-green foliage, and a silver statuette, poised high on a slender column of white chalcedony, were the only accessories. Tante It was as though her face was covered by an impalpable grey mask. Jan and Her Job In the latter the solid is reduced to particles of impalpable fineness; in the former it is not. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining Nothing remained, except that impalpable powder against the background of the trees. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Yet Denas knew that between them and herself there was a line impalpable as the equator and just as potent in its dividing power. A Singer from the Sea Formless dreams tortured me with impalpable tragedies and apprehensions of horror. Dreamers of the Ghetto Arms, legs, and barrel chests, halves of men, covering the five with that impalpable black powder into which their bodies were dissolving. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 There were the deep, dark eyes, there were the full sensuous lips, the upper shaded with an impalpable down, there was the charcoal-black hair! Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories They're underneath the debris, Kay, a mile deep, buried, beneath the impalpable powder that represented the inorganic salts and minerals of the earth. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 All powders must be absolutely free from grit, or, in other words, quite impalpable; otherwise they irritate the surface. The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases And yet, in this mid-month of October, there was in the air a feeling of uneasiness, impalpable, not to be defined or even spoken of—but present, ever-present. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue But to slay this man––her husband––in his inmost heart he felt it would mean the raising of a bar as impalpable as fate, and as undying, to all his dreams. Whispering Smith I am enchanted of an impalpable woman, George," he said, "I am in bonds to a spirit of the air. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences They could reach their hands into the impalpable barrier. Invasion Yet this stress is not only endured continually by this pliant, impalpable, transparent medium, but other bodies can move through the same space apparently as freely as if it were entirely free. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena An enemy, to enter unseen, would have to be impalpable, invisible.... The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Sane as he looked and spoke, this was rather impalpable, and Jeffrey began to doubt his own fitness to deal with psychologic quibbles. The Prisoner And during the day's long flight, something seemed to follow him like an impalpable menace. The Trimming of Goosie This then is a book of travels in an impalpable country, an enchanted country, from which we have all risen, and towards which we are still rising. The Book of Khalid The young woman was embarrassed by her own impalpable fears, and she took leave of Rooney and rejoined her father, determined to overcome them and dismiss them from her mind. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 And all of it stretching out apparently to infinity beyond that horizon line which is still hidden by a silvery haze, impalpable womb that cradles the life-giving heat. A Bride of the Plains But the poet goes much farther, and in all his works presents surroundings and accessories, impalpable but certain, which fit the characters and their moods and actions. Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems Sometimes he drew whole edifices—fairy castles, domes, towers, spires—which, once created, went floating off forever on the blue, freighted with their fantastic inhabitants, invisible, impalpable, and imperishable. The Trimming of Goosie Indeed, both these lads are now on the wharf of enchantment; the one on the palpable, the sensuous, the other on the impalpable and unseen. The Book of Khalid It was as beautiful and iridescent as the Staubbach, and as impalpable. The History of Dartmouth College That mournful night Was Phosphor' dark, impalpable to view: And since stern fate to heaven his post fast bound, He veil'd in densest clouds his grieving face. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Justice itself is impalpable as an abstraction, and abstract liberty the merest phantasy that ever amused the imagination. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject In each case this hollow contained a small bronze statuette packed, as it were, in an impalpable dust. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Armenium was a metallic color, and was prepared by being ground to an impalpable powder. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life But why dwell longer upon such scenes? happiness is so transitory and impalpable that it will not bear either analysis or description. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Something invisible, impalpable as air, but nevertheless thrusting them apart with a force that might not be resisted. The Dop Doctor Don't you know that even granite millstones finally grind themselves into impalpable powder? Macaria Concentration requires an elevated impalpable object as an aim. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts The whole eruption ended in a shower of impalpable ashes, which hid the mountain for many days, and which were carried to a great distance by the wind. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville He threw himself on his knees to examine the spot, brushing away with the ragged burnouse one of his Arabs had thrown him the impalpable dust of thirty-five centuries. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt This strong and salient woman, lapped in unseen, impalpable serpent-coils that tightened every hour, was waxing weak. The Dop Doctor He lifted his hand overhead, the finger-tips pressed together and then suddenly separated as though he had released an impalpable something into the air. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories A slight hint or two she did give, or thought she gave, but they were too fine, too impalpable to be of avail. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Fairy lace and impalpable mysteries of chiffon were laid upon the hillside, spreading from vine to vine. Master of the Vineyard Air is invisible, impalpable, all-penetrating, and yet in some manner appreciable to sense. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The Mother moved across the little room, and burned the letter to the last blank corner, and trod the fallen ashes into impalpable powder. The Dop Doctor We left the station platform and went ploughing up a street over shoetops with the impalpable dust and denoted by tents and white-coated shacks sparsely bordering. Desert Dust As he sat there brooding, or dreaming of the work he might yet do, there stole into his senses that impalpable consciousness of another presence, near, and coming nearer. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories The vague, impalpable things in his mind, cloudy emotions half shaped towards ideas, vanished before the rough grasp of words. Tales of Space and Time My seat by the Serpentine was under a small and almost impalpable cloud of almond petals. Waiting for Daylight He felt as though her soul hovered about him, wailing to him not to be so cruel, tugging at his garments with imploring, impalpable hands. The Dop Doctor It is because his style can be as simple and clear as sunlight, and yet as airy and impalpable as the invisible wind, that he manages to achieve these results. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He professes nothing of the kind; but with quiet smiling patience, with a multitude of impalpable touches, clothes his scene and its humble figures in an atmosphere of pity and understanding. When Winter Comes to Main Street The Duke, Smith, the Doctor, and the Secretary drift into the room, which is now tenanted by something impalpable but horrible. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Something dropped upon his face like a light, impalpable shower. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Her conversation, so charmingly impalpable, solidifies into discussion. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Later they were sitting, towards evening, sewing at some item of the impalpable trousseau, Pauline alternating her spasmodic needle with reading over Mme. Ringfield A Novel The sand of this desert is so fine that its particles are almost impalpable, and the action of the wind causes it to accumulate into heaps ten or twenty feet high, divided by deep valleys. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century But I chafed at the impalpable barrier which was always between us. The Crack of Doom Having satisfied himself as to his apparent security, the senator thought no more of spirits palpable or impalpable; but to the far graver issues of the convention his thoughts reverted. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales In its impalpable gaseous character was clearly perceived the consummation of fate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. It may be frozen out, or burned out, or scattered into impalpable dust by the terrific explosion of steam generated by an ocean of water precipitated into an ocean of fire. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Take one ounce white lead; half ounce gum arabic, in the impalpable powder; half ounce white rosin, in the fine powder. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources The tie that knit them together was woven of impalpable strands, but it was unbreakable while he and his generation were above the earth. Virginia She was dressed in pale, shadowy blue—graceful, impalpable, like the smoke, said Aristide, curling upwards from a cigarette. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol She felt, as she spoke those words, the silent, still, impalpable recoil in her companion’s heart. A Beautiful Alien The ashes were a bluish-gray, impalpable powder, resembling newly ground flour and slightly smelling of sulphur. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The sea was so rough, that the waves climbed these glacial blocks, and fell on the other side in fine impalpable dust. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century He had a despondent impression that an impalpable barrier lay between them. The Rapids To address Fleurette, impalpable creation of fairyland, as “old girl” was particularly distasteful. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol As material as the tuk-tuk and its passengers were, in his mind that which sped away from him wavered between the palpable and impalpable like an incongruous quark. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais He began to feel, moreover, that an almost impalpable barrier had sprung up between himself and his nearest friend. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 For a moment he knew genuine fear—the non-physical fear which the impalpable can awake in the bravest mind. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel It is impossible to make marble imitate that which is impalpable. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I If Stent did not notice the impalpable touch, neither did Brown notice it, watching them. Barbarians Nawin smiled awkwardly at the words that gave proof to an impalpable conjecture and made him assess how trite human interaction was. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais All those voyages into the mystical unknown, into the gleaming, impalpable kingdom of pure romance from which he brought back such splendid trophies, were but experiments. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays That somebody, somewhere, should make a noise about it,—somebody who was impalpable to him, in some place that was to him quite another world,—was intelligible. Ralph the Heir He feels a bleak and impalpable alienation from those who are all the world to him. Old Junk A dreadful, almost impalpable floss from their handled wings and bodies smeared her hands; the place vibrated with their tiny goblin cries. Barbarians He was, in truth, a rare phenomenon; so perfect, in one point of view; so shallow, so delusive, so impalpable, such an absolute nonentity, in every other. The Scarlet Letter The dimensions of these meteorites vary considerably; they are of all sizes, from the impalpable dust that floats in the air, to the enormous blocks exposed in the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Astronomy for Amateurs She saw neither form nor face in her visions, and yet the impalpable and glowing impression stole upon her senses like an odour, or a strain of soft and soul-thrilling music. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Little by little they felt, as it were, the sensation of being touched by a breath, the approach of an impalpable being. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Small, almost impalpable, colourless insects, whose bite is like a red hot wire and who can penetrate the meshes of an ordinary mosquito net with ease, began to infest the place. In Mesopotamia To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. The Scarlet Letter Yet, some of them have left us a modest token of remembrance, an almost impalpable nothing, sufficient, however, to enable us to address our thanks to the considerate messenger. Astronomy for Amateurs The casements were so beset with untrimmed branches and decayed tendrils that her form looked dim and almost impalpable, seen through the mist, the vagrant motes revelling in the sunbeams. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The mist was all around and about him, creeping, impalpable, phantom-like. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 It peeped in boldly, stirring up myriads of impalpable atoms and whipping them into a living line of silver. "Unto Caesar" A faith in a Jesus who was not a Christ would not sanctify; a faith in a Christ who is not Jesus would be impalpable and impotent. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John He waked slowly and gently,—first stirring his hands as though clutching at something impalpable, then gradually opening his eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel An atmosphere, impervious, and almost impalpable, seems to oppress the spirit. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 According to it, our sun and planets were once diffused through space as an impalpable haze, out of which, by condensation, came the solar system. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 They knew and understood and held the whole world in leading strings, delicate as silk, invisible, impalpable, but strong. Gossamer 1915 The only change was the impalpable one which occurs in a room when a clock stops. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play I wasnt afraid of such a consequence in itself, having at the moment nothing to attach, but I thought of Miss Francis and future sales and that impalpable thing known as "goodwill." Greener Than You Think The recent marvelous development of the wireless telegraph, by which the impalpable ether is harnessed to man's service, is an indication of the wonders which may be expected in the future. American Men of Mind It would be an error to confound clouds or fog or any visible mist with the vapour of water, which is a perfectly impalpable gas, diffused, even on the clearest days, throughout the atmosphere. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He could reduce it, in the solitude of his chamber, into almost impalpable ashes, and then swallow them. Cousin Henry She had been changed from living flesh and blood to something more impalpable than air. Moor Fires A. SWINBURNE: Oh, Cow of rare rapturous vision, Oh, purple, impalpable Cow, Do you browse in a Dream Field Elysian, Are you purpling pleasantly now? The Book of Humorous Verse It is then taken into another room, packed into a "Jordan engine," and ground into an almost impalpable pulp. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life He now stopped his consumption of his dessert and recalled himself with an effort to his daughter’s impalpable difficulties. The Squirrel-Cage It is no gigantic Atlas, as the Greeks fancied, that upholds the celestial sphere; all the constellations are kept from falling by an impalpable energy that uses no muscles and no masonry. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Yet some indescribable atmosphere closed her delicately around, an impalpable wall between her and the commonplace. The Thing from the Lake Insufflation consists in blowing an impalpable powder directly into the nose. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Endemics of abortion depend on the impalpable vapors that arise from the quicksilver mines of Spain. The Education of American Girls It was like a golden cup filled with some magic, impalpable draught. The Squirrel-Cage He had the permanent distinction of revealing scientifically the existence of invisible, impalpable substances, namely gases. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery I must confess some impalpable quality of that ancient room disturbed me. The Red Room The marl and dross of Earth, impalpable, but visibly corrupting, pervade the very nature; and only when the current ceases, will its primitive transparency return. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States The wind tossed about his clothes, and dashed in his face a keen impalpable sleet, while nothing dispelled the darkness except the occasional gleam of a lamp struggling fitfully with the driving mist. Julian Home If by chance a wandering glance met mine, it stared past and through me as though I were impalpable as a ghost. The Lady of the Basement Flat If air was only matter rarefied, Why could not things still more impalpable Have real existence? Stories in Verse "There is neither ghost of earl nor ghost of countess in that room; there is no ghost there at all, but worse, far worse, something impalpable—" "Well?" they said. The Red Room The almost impalpable outlines of a crouching figure that had paused upon touching his foot was revealed, and all doubt vanished from the mind of Deane. The Phantom of the River This impalpable, invisible balm permeates everything; it is wafted out over the sea to us, even as the breath of the Spice Islands is borne over the waves to the joy of the passing mariner. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Reduce a block of marble to impalpable powder; mix this powder with humus, or vegetable earth; knead them well together; water the mixture; let it rot for a year, two years—time does not count. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It was all impalpable, there was nothing openly hostile, no one said anything to which he could take exception—he 256 only wished they would; but he felt the hostility nevertheless. Fair Harbor In fancy he made frantic attempts to regain the confidence of his friends, to break through the impalpable, impenetrable barrier which the first stir of suspicion had put between their minds and his. Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 Like the Indian summer haze, it was impalpable, and without impeding the view bathed all objects near and far in a glamour not to be described. The Blindman's World 1898 Wherever carpets or rugs cover the floors, there dust has an assured abiding-place, and it is diffused throughout the apartment in impalpable clouds, at every sweeping of the floors. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries We must be able to receive the message in the same impalpable way in which the unseen intelligence communicates it. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 I recognised my Rose at last in her soft, golden, shimmering, impalpable, incredible tresses. The Choice of Life It was a thing too impalpable to contend with. Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 Many complain that they know Christ, pray to Christ, are conscious of Christ, but that the Father is far away and impalpable. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. The impalpable, formless brown fog was about him Its acrid scent of burning was in his nostrils. Despair's Last Journey The impalpable powder penetrated their clothes, smarted in their eyes, and all but choked them, even behind the veiling neckerchiefs. Bloom of Cactus But somehow the religious barrier, which he did his best to ignore, had gradually risen like an impalpable fence about him, and kept him a dignified exile in his own house. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales The ties of common interest and personal friendship which, impalpable though they be, bind nations together more closely than constitutions and laws, are to a great extent wanting. Half a Hero A Novel He entered not by the eyes," says St. Bernard, "for His presence was not marked by color; nor by the ears, for there was no sound; nor by the touch, for He was impalpable. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. He waited for the sun to pierce this impalpable fog, but waited in vain. Despair's Last Journey There was an effect as though the force, impalpable, real, which was herself, had gone too, flown from the window straight toward that horizon, leaving here but a fair ivory shell. The Long Roll Everywhere in the air was a silver-white, impalpable mist, which gave to the cloudless sky a whitish cast. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen Whew! how it curled around our limbs, catching up mountains of snow into the air, and dashing them into impalpable dust against our wretched faces. Hudson Bay Everything else is impalpable, floating, soft, and of a light, bright, silvery grey. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure The actual was dropping away into an impalpable mistiness as the earth drops from under a rising aëroplane. The Tyranny of Weakness But these moments of difficulty and obscurity, these vague and impalpable links in the chain, are only to be found in the process by which we arrive at our conclusion. The Complex Vision I shut them out as we shut out winds blowing from the desert; hot, debilitating, oppressive, laden with impalpable sands and pungent salts, and inflicting an incurable blindness. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The Christian Social Union, originating with some Oxford men in London, was soon reinforced from Cambridge, which had fallen under the inspiring though impalpable influence of Westcott's teaching. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography An instant the heavy weapon seemed absolutely without motion; then the report crashed through the forest, and the snow-crust was dashed into impalpable powder by a hundred riddling pellets. Adrift in the Ice-Fields The sky was cloudless but there was that smoky, misty, impalpable thing like a dust of dreams on the distance. The Tyranny of Weakness A thick misty appearance, caused by a fine impalpable sand brought off the land by the squall, soon hid the stranger from sight. The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa Too evasive for explanatory analysis, almost too delicate and impalpable even for descriptive comment, are many of the best musical effects of fine poetry. The Principles of English Versification But besides the social grievance, which though impalpable is very real, Burns had another more material and tangible. Robert Burns In the hall a heavy, suffocating heat, stirred but not dissipated by the waving fans, their glittering spangles mingling their reflections with the impalpable outbreathings of the silence. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) It was wretched everywhere, and the wet pavement glistened in the gaslight, while the oppressive warmth of the almost impalpable rain lay heavily over the streets and seemed to obscure the light from the lamps. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories They breathed a hot atmosphere filled with gypsum dust, that by the trampling of the buffalo herd had been reduced to an impalpable powder, and floated about suspended in the air. The Boy Hunters Her eyes were open, yet saw nothing: impalpable chains fettered her limbs, so that they grew stiff and refused to move; an icy coldness crept around her heart. Big Game A Story for Girls Remember the explosion in our laboratory, that blew an entire mountain into impalpable dust? Skylark Three It is well that fairies and giants are powerless in the nineteenth century, else had the indignant genii of the cave crushed his bones to impalpable powder. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 He will have no information whatever, and the first attempt to do anything with the stuff will blow him and all the country around him for miles into an impalpable powder. The Skylark of Space There would be a brief flash of dull red, a still briefer flare of incandescence, and the impalpable magnets would leap out to seize another of the doomed globes. Spacehounds of IPC Quit the impalpable form thou didst wear in the world of thine own, and be flesh, and blood, and bones, and marrow, in ours. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 There is considerable difference between the impalpable, airy spirit of the fancy and a wrinkled and austere feminine actuality of fifty. The Romance of an Old Fool Towards these dim infinitely-expanded regions, close-bordering on the impalpable Inane, it is not without apprehension, and perpetual difficulties, that the Editor sees himself journeying and struggling. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The sunlight thinned him to an impalpable ghost. The Coast of Chance He is one of the Extractors of Quintessence, and his Anelida is the formal spirit, impalpable yet definite, of the medieval courtly romance. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Quit the impalpable form thou didst wear in the world of thine own, and be flesh, and blood, and bones, and marrow, in ours. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 Into his ears came the first faint rumors of things astir, and he began to work on the almost impalpable scent. White Ashes Good Peruvian guano is an impalpable powder, perfectly dry to the touch, of a uniform brownish yellow color, with a strong smell, like that of spirits of hartshorn, contained in ammoniacal smelling bottles. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers In that immense radiance, the surrounding objects seemed to exist only as in a dream, impalpable, meteoric, and visible at a great distance by virtue of some fantastic irradiation of their own. The Child of Pleasure Susanna wore a costume of some cool gauzy tissue, pearl-grey, with white ruffles that looked as impalpable as froth. The Lady Paramount He regards his prayer as a mysterious, impalpable portion of his own substance, and hence he seeks to embody it in some object, which thus becomes consecrated. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 At all events, the minister found himself unable to dismiss a certain thin and impalpable fantasy which lingered behind that ponderous speculation of an all-embracing philosophy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A breeze, that blew daily without fail, served to raise a fine impalpable dust that permeated everything. With the British Army in The Holy Land The atmosphere grew hazy with impalpable dust; and the stars were wholly obscured. Brood of the Witch-Queen Our little home was folded within impalpable walls, and beyond it lay a vision of green foliage and golden masses of cloud that never faded off the horizon. Under the Trees and Elsewhere Through Debussy, music had liquified, become opalescent and impalpable and fluent. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Masonry has already helped cast down some idols from their pedestals, and grind to impalpable dust some of the links of the chains that held men's souls in bondage. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry My character has been under an impalpable shadow for ten years. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Tones, on the contrary, are not and cannot be associated with any definite ideas or impressions; they are as impalpable as they are transient, and, taken separately, leave no lasting trace. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Prospero's island is no mirage, hovering unreal and evanescent on the far horizon; no impalpable phantom of reality floating like some strayed flower on the lovely sea of dreams. Under the Trees and Elsewhere For all its golden earthiness, the style of Debussy is the most liquid and impalpable of musical styles. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers They were without flesh or blood, impalpable, invisible, and incredibly swift of foot. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America By an impalpable and invisible power it is decreed that Mr. Boycott shall be "hunted out," and it is more than doubtful whether he will, under existing circumstances, be able to stand against it. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. This is then reduced by mortar and pestle to an almost impalpable dust. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 More than this, our candid friends are impalpable. Sword and Gown A Novel He could write music as impalpable as that of the middle section of "Ibéria," in which the very silence of the night, the caresses of the breeze, seem to have taken musical flesh. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers He had a dim and vague idea that something impalpable was near him, now by his side, now before him, never behind him, looking as eagerly and as anxiously as himself for the lost diamonds. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Early travellers tell us that the Bushmen conceived the soul to be immortal, and as impalpable as a shadow, and that they were much afraid of the return of deceased spirits to haunt them. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life With what words may one ever hope to capture and detain that which belongs of right to the genius of poetry and song, by whose magic those elusive and impalpable realities find embodiment and voice? The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry He, who doubtless ought to bulk in the story more massively than any one, tends to remain the least recognizable of the company, and even to dissolve in a kind of impalpable blur. The Craft of Fiction She could not be deceived; her eyes penetrated farther than his; she divined the impalpable, the invisible that hovered about her. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) Thence in safety, a victor, in height of glory returned, Guiding errant feet to a thread's impalpable order. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Its population, impalpable ghosts timidly flitting at every motion, 11 Irving, Life of Columbus: Appendix on the Situation of the Terrestrial Paradise. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life A shadow was moving in the room, thin, impalpable and noiseless, but it had all the seeming of a man. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis But there are other ores, in lump showing no visible gold, which contain the gold in all possible degrees of fineness, from say prills of a milligram or so down to a most impalpable powder. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. So impalpable yet so pervasive was the enemy that it was like fighting a poisonous odour. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Awnings were stretched and for hours and even days the Wanderer would lie almost motionless, except for the impalpable swell from which the bosom of the sea is never entirely free. Ralph Granger's Fortunes Donatello is rather vague and impalpable; he says too little in the book, shows himself too little, and falls short, I think, of being a creation. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) And the unruffled surface of the water is rendered palpably impalpable by the magic of reflections. Nature Mysticism "Thus far to the Lady Arabella crowns and husbands were like a fairy banquet seen at moonlight opening on her sight, impalpable, and vanishing at the moment of approach." Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In glides, impalpable, the maddening pest Between the dainty bosom and the vest, Breathing its venom. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Her lips were slightly cracked, and cold-cream seemed only to provide a surer resting place for the impalpable dust. Parrot & Co. For, besides these typical class-names, attributive words are general terms, such as 'royal,' 'ruling,' 'woolly,' 'bleating,' 'impalpable,' 'vanishing.' Logic Deductive and Inductive The atom does not exist alone, as an individual; the atom is invisible and impalpable and it does not live. Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) Will you inject it with a hypodermic syringe between two impalpable plates to obtain were it only the wing of a fly? Social Life in the Insect World Now at last the mystery was cleared up, and its impalpable shape reduced to a positive and ugly reality. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel A veil impalpable as dreams hovered over the River. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Of what nature then are these great inspirations, that invisible and impalpable germ of great devotion, produced in a few moments, issuing from a single heart, and which must fill time and eternity? History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 When the tactlessness, bad temper, or general mulishness of man wrings unwilling tears from her eyes, there is no sympathy to be gained from that impalpable presence. The Spinster Book The sea is angry and discoloured; the day most oppressively sultry, and the atmosphere thick, sulphureous, and loaded with an almost impalpable dust, which falls on the paper as I write. The Diary of an Ennuyée Thy impalpable soul, Atom of consciousness, measuring the Infinite, grasping the whole: Then, on the trivialest transiencies fix’d, or plucking for fruit Dead-sea apples and ashes of sin, more brute than the brute. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History As I saw them then it seemed that they were the shadows—impalpable fantastic shadows—that divided for Mrs. Wessington's 'rickshaw to pass through. The Best Ghost Stories Over all the fields was a pale mist, waving and eddying in such impalpable air currents that it seemed to have a sentient life of its own. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel When agreeably excited Mrs. Hannay was accustomed to move from one end of her drawing-room to the other with the pleasing and impalpable velocity of all soft round bodies inspired by gaiety. The Helpmate The presence of 5 per cent. of rosin in shellac can be detected by dissolving in a little alcohol, pouring the solution into water, and drying the fine impalpable powder which separates. The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association In a general view, I agree with this proposition; yet, what we call felicitous diction can never have a potent charm without refined thoughts, which, like essential odours, may be too impalpable to bear transfusion. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch It was the indispensable condition of our contact, of our words, of our thoughts; it was the atmosphere of our feelings; a something as all-pervading and impalpable as the air we drew into our lungs. Romance The latter is much too impalpable to enable us to verify his statements by it; but we shall have to show his misconceptions respecting the connection of Justin's doctrine with the former. The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself But it is becoming more and more difficult to induce people to spend a long course of youthful years upon a confessedly impalpable result. Practical Essays Above the girl's head—yellow like the stalk of wheat—there hovered a kind of aureola, as if there had risen above it a haze of impalpable gold dust. The Adventures of Kathlyn They look at me, they see me, prodigious, incomparable beings, fairies, daughters of the sacred earth, of the impalpable air, and of hot sun rays, that mother bountiful of the universe. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 She stood out all rosy from the warmth of the day, amidst the impalpable clouds of flour, which diffused an indistinct whiteness through the air. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 At times, this sameness was disturbed, exhibiting between the spectator and the sun the appearance of a water-spout, owing to the gyratory motions of the impalpable mineral. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 Some of these are so fine, impalpable, and spiritual in their texture, that they cannot be seized by any questions that can be put; and would be dropped out if the present system were changed. Practical Essays But his effect is a shade more impalpable, and his means are at once simpler and more subtle. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Nevertheless, Quest, too, as reluctantly he made his preparations for retiring for the night, was conscious of that queer sensation of unimagined and impalpable danger. The Black Box Then he, like his audience, was swept away into an impalpable world where nothing remained save the marvelous cascading and crushing tides which were the tides of golden sound. Destiny Our institutional law is like the atmosphere—impalpable, imperceptible, but all-pervading, and the source of life itself. The Young Man and the World But, in the first place, it is not proposed to reduce the school and college curriculum to science alone; and, in the next place, who can say what are the "impalpable" results of science? Practical Essays Style, in his view, unless it is something wholly uncharacterizable, is a vague and impalpable spirit breathing through the work of some strongly marked individuality, or else it is formalism. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Some day our people will awake to the possibilities that inhere in these palpable expressions of the impalpable things for which our country stands. Craftsmanship in Teaching For this reason, too, even the best attempts at exposition of King Lear are disappointing; they remind us of attempts to reduce to prose the impalpable spirit of the Tempest. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth In a few seconds the air looks clear, and turning on a beam of light we see the globules of water dancing about, no longer fine and impalpable, but separately visible and rapidly falling. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 All around that one point thought had ceased; impalpable walls shut off from consciousness everything else in the scheme of things. Secret Bread The spirit of the world is for ever altering—impalpable; for ever eluding, in fresh forms, your attempts to seize it. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series But now over a fortnight has been lost while I have been lying in hospital, suffering all the tortures of Montjuich, "A touch of sun," people called it, combined with some impalpable kind of malaria. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Also the atmosphere of the room was filled with impalpable particles of dust, which rendered breathing oppressive and unpleasant. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad The clouds, passing between earth and sun, made against the mountain slopes impalpable, dark, fantastic shapes. Foes In this impalpable tangle sat the men and women—tenants of cottages, labourers, farm servants and their children, all who had been helping with the harvest. Secret Bread With a wild cry Amina flung herself upon Kunigunda, only to find that she was stabbing at a thing of air, an impalpable apparition which vanished at a touch. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Rubbing together of the hands, and that other motion which Dickens somewhere describes as "washing with impalpable soap in invisible water," have like implications. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library He also thought that electricity, then impalpable to the senses, was the material ingredient affecting the weight and coherence of bodies. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Often they are mere sound-wraiths, intended to denote moods and nuances of emotion so impalpable and evanescent, so vague and interior, that it is more than a little difficult to mark their precise significance. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score She felt as though she had drawn near some invisible web, of which every now and then a single filament brushed against her—almost impalpable, yet touching her with the fleetest and lightest of contacts. The Splendid Folly When the question came, as she knew it would, she had not hesitated an instant as to the answer, and yet the answer had materialised what had been impalpable before. The King's Achievement She had fine shoulders, and altogether was of fashionable appearance, excepting that there was about her the impalpable, but none the less pronounced, air of the woman who associates with men as a comrade. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I tried to brush them away, but they were so impalpable that the movement of my hand did not disturb them at all. Combed Out Many of them are simply harmonic hues and half-lights, melodic shreds and fragments, whose substance is as impalpable as mist and whose outlines waver and fade almost before they are perceived. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score The vision of Culver Point faded away, and an impalpable wall of darkness seemed to close about her. The Splendid Folly Thus far, to the Lady Arabella, crowns and husbands were like a fairy banquet seen at moonlight, opening on her sight, impalpable and vanishing at the moment of approach. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Nobody could call Mr Arnold a Philistine or one insensible to finesse, grace, sehnsucht, the impalpable and intangible charm of melancholy and of thought. Matthew Arnold It seemed the impalpable creation of an enchanter, which his wand would anon dissolve into air once more! Idolatry A Romance Charlotte was unthoughtful of wrong; but still there was a repression, a something undefinable between them, impalpable, but positive as a breath of polar air. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance It may seem a curious admission, but this beautiful although impalpable being is suggested by the charming dresses, hats and bonnets displayed on the milliners' blocks. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. So impalpable was the attraction that brought the world to the feet of Madame Récamier that it is interesting to analyze it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes,—rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Slowly in those days the conviction deepened in him that he was an alien on this coast, that between him and the hearts of the race he ministered to there stretched an impalpable, impenetrable veil. The Ship of Stars She had been all around me, but so impalpable that when I put out my hands to touch her, they grasped only the air. The Fatal Glove The sunshine seems to flow like an impalpable cataract over the top of the Hudson Terminal, breaking and shining in a hundred splashes and pools of brightness among the stone channels below. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned His beginning is sometimes as small as a particle of sand; the first dawning of his existence as impalpable as the air. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town There is no dissecting-room of the soul like the Confessional, where the priest is quite impalpable and impersonal and the penitent secure in the privacy of an anonymous communication. Side Lights And she used to wear her hair down her back; it was very long, and soft—soft as smoke, almost; almost impalpable. Grey Roses The opposition had, to all appearance, dissolved into impalpable matter. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans The present owner, we fear, does not know how much impalpable and unforgotten gold leaped up the wide red throat of that chimney, or he would not dream of selling. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned In fact the broad marble top was on the floor, and the room full of impalpable dust. A Splendid Hazard Lamp-black is an absolutely impalpable powder, which having a small amount of greasy matter in it, greatly retards the drying of the oil with which it may be mixed. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing Then the terror passed; and she saw, in a single piercing flash of insight, that what she had mistaken for ugliness was simply an impalpable manifestation of beauty. One Man in His Time He got out, and was immediately smitten in the face by the cold, impalpable fingers of a thick falling snow-storm. Bressant It wasn't that she ceased to be friendly; but she placed between herself and him one of those women-built, impalpable, impassable barriers which baffled, puzzled men are unable to tear down. A Woman Named Smith A thousand impalpable fears and doubts beset his mind. Macleod of Dare "If my millions are as impalpable as my broomstick they won't hurt me much," he laughed. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Would he ever again be free from this impalpable terror, from this dread of being shut within a space so small that he must smother if he did not escape? One Man in His Time His shoes were dustless, though everyone else was covered in the fine, impalpable powdery dust of Naples. Captivity And her poor little feet with the rotting shoes upon them moved delicately, as if they trod the impalpable air. A Woman Named Smith The crêpe will be as a cloud thrown over the dress—a transparent, vapory, impalpable cloud. Parisian Points of View There was an impalpable stress upon the "all." Success A Novel The song had gone out of her voice, and a heaviness, an impalpable fear, had descended again on her heart. One Man in His Time The heat of the day came down like an impalpable curtain, making her tired and gasping. Captivity Like a universe-filling, soft, impalpable dust it slowly sifted over me, bearing me under. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The impalpable shield her formidable friend carried with her, turned the perils aside. The Real Adventure It was so wholly unexpected and yet it so cruelly confirmed the Inspector's undisguised suspicions that it seemed to me to have created a sort of impalpable barrier between us. The Green Eyes of Bâst He was as old as that indestructible entity, the spirit of race—as that impalpable strain which had existed in every Culpeper, and in all the Culpepers together, from the beginning. One Man in His Time The impalpable barrier hung like a mist about his wits. Lady Good-for-Nothing Above float clouds—white, gray, and inken, while the clear, impalpable air springs and sparkles like new wine. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil It is easily gathered, and is first peeled in large hoppers ingeniously contrived, and thrown into a cylinder and ground into an impalpable pulp. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. She relapsed into silence and a chair; and he sat with gaze fixed on the hickory in the fireplace, burning to impalpable, white ash. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The moon slid back behind a cloud, the silver rays failed, and the figure of the man became more indistinct, almost a shadow, thin and impalpable. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi We kept slowly moving onward, upward, into what seemed like a thin impalpable mist, but was immeasurable tracts of snow. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series An impalpable emanation of feeling reached her from the other woman. The Brimming Cup Here the lumps of sago are broken up, and are reduced into an impalpable flour, which is passed through a sieve. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. If still impalpable to the gross foot of earth, it seemed to the charmed mind a glowing passage for the freed spirit to mount to bliss! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 So susceptible is the foolish spirit of mortal to those subtle, impalpable influences of atmosphere that we try to describe, in terms of inexact science, as personality, vibration, aura, magnetism. Martha By-the-Day She at least was not an impalpable vision, but solid, substantial, palpitating flesh and blood. The Redemption of David Corson The sea shut close-fisted over its own, while the pursuing boat paused and eddied about it, as if held to the treasure by invisible, impalpable strands. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Light and shadow are woven together on his figures like an impalpable Coan gauze, aërial and transparent, enhancing the palpitations of voluptuous movement which he loved. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Shelley abhors limits, everything grows evanescent and ethereal before his solvent imagination, the infinity he aspires after unveils itself at his bidding, impalpable, undefined, "intense," "inane." Robert Browning Why, if they could, half the population of the world would succumb beneath the impalpable weapons wielded by the other half. The Devil's Garden On each side of this a thin silvery veil of mist crept slowly up and hung in impalpable folds. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 Now and then a taxicab sped through the avenues of darkness like a criminal pursued by the impalpable. The Lion's Share Further, there is a distinct, though it may be almost impalpable, difference between it and the conversation of the stage, though it is naturally connected therewith. The English Novel The shifting standpoints of such a man are reproduced with superfluous fidelity in his supposed Defence, which seems designed to be as elusive and impalpable as the character it reflects. Robert Browning Moreover, after six days of genuine labor, Sunday's fundamental purport as a day of rest is apt to overshadow its symbolic aspects as a day set apart for communion with things impalpable. The Devil's Garden An impalpable red dust sifts through and into everything. African Camp Fires The child felt the charm, and began to lose himself in the impalpable something that, like a curtain of spirit, gathered around. Lancashire Idylls (1898) She began at length to be conscious of this impalpable tyranny, and submitted to it only because she felt her own dependence and knew that in a few days more she should be free. Esther |
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