| 单词 | mote |
| 例句 | Something inside it made him feel dizzy and small—very, very small—a diminutive speck no bigger or more significant than a mote of dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The wind picked up motes of sand that stung their cheeks and forced them to shield their eyes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Maybe instead of feeling like a mote of dust, we can remember that all the creatures on this Earth are made from stardust. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dust motes danced in the light, the brightness setting off the dark, heavy wooden desk that dominated the room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The sun slanted through the dirty attic window, lighting the dust motes dancing in the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Since King Hamlet’s burial, the chapel had been little used and dust motes drifted in the light beams. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mark leaned in to see dust motes dancing in the bright beam. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was so silent that Coraline imagined that she could hear the motes of dust drifting through the air. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The morning air, spilling over with radioactive motes, gray and sun-beclouding, belched about him, haunting his nose; he sniffed involuntarily the taint of death. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z From an uncovered window high overhead, a little daylight made its way down the curved staircase, illuminating thousands of dust motes dancing in the dim air. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I lay back and watched the silent beams of light radiate in the colorful dust motes I had stirred up. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With his one hand it would be possible in seconds to squeeze Hatsue’s letter into motes of dust and obliterate its message forever. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Whole civilizations of motes are caught in the thick stripes of light beaming down from two high windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The asteroid belt is a great grinding mill, producing smaller and smaller pieces down to motes of dust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day after our aquarium visit, we walked into Mrs. Turton’s classroom and saw a quote on the blackboard: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the dusky shadows, Frankie’s eyes were as luminously gold as the constellations of dust motes floating above our heads. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Dust motes danced in the beam as he swung it back and forth, revealing scarred metal and rows of bolts and protruding edges and ridges. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z After he’d learned his own way around, it would be up to him to take risks for himself—if he wanted to make mote and quicker money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust motes swam ghostlike in the empty room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dust motes floated in the air as a serving girl filled two green glass cups for Ser Jorah and the widow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They pooled and swirled, sparkling with thousands of tiny motes of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The lamp in the rocks on the side of the hill was little more than a mote of light and after a while they walked back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I don’t believe that motion picture cameras ever have filmed a human spectacle mote colorful than my eyes took in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the sky had whited over with clouds, and shine spilled across the surfaces, sending motes before my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And now the lights have been switched off and the clanking projector shoots out a beam of light, showing a million dust motes in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I’m sorry I made your time on this rock, this stupid little mote of dust, harder and not easier. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Morning light, mote filled and yellow, streamed in through the narrow glassless window. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The mote in his brother’s eye, not the sin of his own household. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust motes floated through the sunset-red light and disappeared into dark shadows like lost, lonely phantoms. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Dust motes hung in a beam of sunlight. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z But mote warriors were coming up the stairs. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad had been keeping a countdown on how many mote months it would be before they could force him to join the army, but we knew they wouldn’t do that. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust motes swam in the slice of sunlight that came through the window. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was lighting up his walrus whiskers and the perpetually joyous dust motes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The beam stretched out into shrinking nothingness, a-glitter with dancing, shining motes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z When he left the store that first day, as motes of dust filled the space he left behind, her own life seemed drab beyond endurance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now Brinker, with his steady wit and ceaseless plans, Brinker had nothing to offer in place of Leper’s dust motes and creeping ivy and snails. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Each evening the sun colored the buildings ochre and lit the motes of dust raised by the breeze until the air itself became a soft orange veil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cedar is 26 and pregnant — she resembles the Land O’Lakes butter maiden, we are told — and must hide from spies and drones and dust-like observational motes. Shades of Atwood and Vonnegut in Louise Erdrich’s Dystopian Novel 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Watch the interactions closely and you'll notice no hint of swagger on Boseman's part or even a mote of movie star distancing between himself and his admirers. T'Challa forever: We lost Chadwick Boseman but not the symbolism of what he represents 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Instead he takes her to his dead mother’s picturesque cottage, an atmospheric, camera-ready shack tucked in an isolated cove and prettily adorned with old boots and dust motes. | 'Ondine': Colin Farrell Meets His Mermaid 2010-06-03T22:52:00Z Although Lifetime recently announced a brand pivot, “Mary Kills People” nevertheless aligns with the channel’s classic “women in peril” motif without engaging in a mote of exploitation. “Mary Kills People”: An agile drama about the risky business of delivering a good death 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z In these images, as with her close-up portraits of her children's faces, the surface of the photograph is often dappled too – with drips, stains, dust motes. Through a lens darkly 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z Gleaming motes of color spin and coalesce into flowers, layer upon layer of shimmering petals. A Game That?s a Sensory Trip to Paradise 2011-07-29T12:00:03Z At the top, a half-open door emits a cloud of sparkly dust motes or tiny stars that may at first escape your notice. Noah Davis Is Gone; His Paintings Continue to Hypnotize 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z I visited the other morning, when sun spilled through windows between the ribs, dancing with the dust motes, splintering into fingered beams. Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The immensity of the universe is beautiful and humbling—the stars reminders of billions of lives spent, in astronomer Carl Sagan’s words, “on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.” The 12 Best Destinations for Stargazing 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z To play that plot for laughs while treating the meat of the situation with a mote of sensitivity, that takes skill and teamwork. There is joy in Morristown: Salon talks to Hank Azaria, star of “Brockmire” 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The two-piece outfit called Gillian Welch may be lost in the world, but it is fascinated by the wrinkles and motes of that experience, and has found the notes for them. Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Dust motes and faded letters and church bells in the town square and breezes through an open window. No ordinary lives: A tribute to Washington’s WWII veterans The chance to vicariously experience a mote of that feeling urges us to watch. "Baby Chimp Rescue" is just as adorable as you expect, and surprisingly emotional as well 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Blanchett adeptly realizes these motes of internal struggle throughout the series, which makes the moments when she drops her façade and voices her aggravation at having to dim her abilities pay off splendidly. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Momentum snowballed and the enthusiasm surrounding that dream provided yet another mote of optimism. From "Jeopardy!" to "Trivial Pursuit," how LeVar Burton's latest lesson is one to inspire us all 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The average person with a mote of common sense would be wary of leaving her with their dog, let alone their infant. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z It takes a hard heart to not feel a mote of empathy for Gosselin as she runs dead last in a short marathon to their barracks, ugly crying the entire time. "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test": Where "Battle of the Network Stars" meets a redemption tour 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Here, too, was the only mote of genuine ease in the program: an Adagio of untrammeled sweetness, with Mr. Watkins as its calm, rooted anchor. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays Shostakovich at Tully Hall 2014-03-25T21:09:56Z Adora is one of many reasons tension hangs over everything in Camille’s small town like an August humidity, but “Sharp Objects” refuses to spice the narrative’s tragedy with wit or motes of humor. Women’s anger is not to be ignored: Lessons from HBO’s “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z The arc of “Burn the Place” begins in Regan’s wild childhood, in blue-collar northwest Indiana, where every mote of her life was colored by family alcoholism and her own perpetual gender agony. “Burn the Place” Is a Thrilling, Disquieting Memoir of Addiction and Coming of Age 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z He lent a beautiful quote to the plaque outside, saying of humans on Earth, “We float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.” Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Now their DNA has been recoded by the experimental playwright Julia Jarcho, and there isn’t even the tiniest mote of sunshine in their makeup. Review: ‘Every Angel Is Brutal’ Adds Kitsch to a ’70s Show 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z He thought he might photograph them swimming in the river below, but instead he became fascinated by the light inside his new “camera,” zooming in on the dust motes, on the light itself. House Proud: Jared Handelsman and Portia Munson Make Their Own Museum at Home 2012-09-19T21:51:29Z Save for a blip of a scene from “Thriller,” no official footage of music videos that might ignite a mote of nostalgia bedecks its architecture. Letting go of Michael Jackson: "Leaving Neverland" wakes us from a false dream 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z There's a mote of tension that plays out with expediency, and a revelation that evokes about half of a sharp inhale. "Downton Abbey" is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Bangladesh, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has raised fuel prices by mote than 50% in just a week. Bangladesh fuel prices: 'I might start begging in the street' 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z As workers wiped away the last motes of construction dust in the new Paddington station for the Elizabeth line, Byford took a group of international reporters through the system for a tour. Elizabeth line: London unveils new Tube line, 10 stories underground 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The bee tugged diligently at a mote of the muck with her mouthparts, then carried it away. Menaced by Murder Hornets, Bees Decorate Their Hives With Feces 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z How do you get from microscopic motes to entire worlds thousands of kilometers across? Asteroid Dust from Hayabusa2 Could Solve a Mystery of Planet Creation 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Those of us in the anti-Trump camp will be smiled upon by history I imagine, but we might pause for a moment to consider the mote in our own eye. Opinion | Trump’s Presidency Smashed the ‘Decency Floor’ 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z These disks begin crystallizing into microscopic motes of rocky dust, which eventually coalesce to form asteroids, comets and planets. How Geologists Reveal the Secrets of the Solar System 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z But while she might detect the mote in others’ eyes, she is insensible to the beam in her own. 'The Undoing' is a tiresome East Coast companion to 'Big Little Lies' 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.” H.P. Lovecraft was a racist. How 'Lovecraft Country' confronts his legacy 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. How a Velvet Ant (Which Is a Wasp) Got Its White Fluff 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z After the issue was resolved, another mote of organic material began to threaten the mission’s launch. NASA’s new rover will collect martian rocks—and clues to planet’s ancient climate 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z There, they transform into tiny motes of heat, only to be whisked away by a gentle breeze in the night, the memories they carried lost forever. Missing Memories of the Universe 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z But the superconducting sensors could measure only the average field across the zircons, which are as small as motes of dust. Diamond microscope reveals slow crawl of Earth’s ancient crust 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z And he went on to describe Earth as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam". Nasa 're-masters' the greatest ever 'selfie' 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Reality was droning on as usual, with impartial sunlight streaming through a nearby window and picking out swirls of dust motes. The Art of Dying 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Many nonetheless insist our cosmos really is just a mote of dust in a vast “multiverse.” Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z There are motes of blood at the point of each. Ever tried revenge honey? It tastes good 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s at this point that the legend of Shakespeare and Company gains life; the residue of its patrons’ most brilliant ideas settling on the books like dust motes. 100 years of Shakespeare and Company: how a bookshop became a Paris landmark 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Physicists routinely speak of particles and fields: localized motes of matter and continuous, fluidlike entities such as the electric or magnetic field. The Search for Truth in Physics 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z She took a glass slide out of her handbag which looked like it had a mote of dust on it. Do Proteins Hold the Key to the Past? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “He would open the curtains a little bit and just study the dust motes, as if it was like a universe of stars that were floating around,” Clark recalls. Virtual reality could show others what autism feels like—and lead to potential treatments 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z As these motes danced across California’s business landscape, they spread secrets and shared insider knowledge. Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z I enjoyed my time with it except when I got stuck on a team whose players were more concerned with killing enemies than banking motes — grr . Review | ‘Destiny 2: Forsaken’ is addictive and fun to play. Until it’s not. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The first trailer for the project highlighted Carl Sagan’s famous “mote of dust” quote and touched on humanity’s potential exploration of the cosmos, but this new trailer is a bit more grounded. New trailers for The First and First Man highlight the human cost of spaceflight 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z But all this means only that the boundaries of what it is to feel human emotion are stretched, to the point of including motes of pollen or the railway carriages people bring presents for. Opinion | The Humanity We Can’t Relinquish 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z The trailer backs that up nicely, featuring Sean Penn looking up at the sky and quoting Carl Sagan’s famous comment that all of humanity lives on “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Hulu has released the first trailer for its Mars show The First 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The standard facts of astronomy are emotionally untenable—a planet spinning at a thousand miles per hour, a mote in a galaxy of unimaginable scale, itself a mote in the vast and expanding universe. Looking for Life on a Flat Earth 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z After a team deposits 75 motes, it’s able to summon an AI-controlled boss known as a Primeval. Review | ‘Destiny 2: Forsaken’ is addictive and fun to play. Until it’s not. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z She returned to the image of light in the imaginary room: “I love you,/The angles of it scraping at/Each throat, shouldering past/The swirling dust motes/In those beams of light.” Tracy K. Smith, America’s Poet Laureate, Is a Woman With a Mission 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z From it we learnt there are also such things as "murses" - man purses - or, if bigger, "motes" - men's tote bags. Why is the manbag on the rise? 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The quickly moving mote was illuminated by other, colored lasers, making it visible. ‘Princess Leia’ holograms one step closer to reality 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr Franken has called for an ethics investigation into his own actions; attending to the beam in their own eye before turning to motes elsewhere, plenty of Democrats have ruefully urged him to resign. Sexual-harassment scandals imperil Democrats more than Republicans 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Complicating matters, if your character dies before banking his or her motes those potential points are permanently lost. Review | ‘Destiny 2: Forsaken’ is addictive and fun to play. Until it’s not. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s the projector that later cast Susie upon a screen set up in the living room, the bright light picking out the dust motes that floated through the air. Perspective | Lights! Camera! Memories! A D.C. film archivist is donating his collection. 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Viewing the mind’s moment-to-moment products as of a similar standing as floating motes of dust — myriad, ephemeral, individually insignificant — is admirable and requires genuine humility. Perspective | Mindfulness would be good for you. If it weren’t so selfish. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z To look at, the object of her passion is just a green mote, floating in vast numbers in the world's oceans. Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr Hughes suggests that instead of the normal closing line, "So mote it be!" Witches cast 'mass spell' against Donald Trump - BBC News 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Viewed from a distance of almost 4 billion miles, Earth was little more than a pixel, a “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam,” in the words of Carl Sagan. Scientists are building a telescope to seek another Earth — and you can help 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there: on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam,” he said in a lecture at Cornell University in 1994. Ambitious mission to capture first picture of Earth-like planet launched 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Unwittingly, perhaps, such labelling only attracts mote Blue to our state, creating mote polarization and discord. Democratic Dream of Two Blue Coasts? Clinton Is in Striking Distance 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z To deliver motes, currently one millimeter in size, into the brain, the researchers would need to miniaturize the sensors further to about 50 microns, about the width of a human hair. Tiny 'fitbits' to keep tabs on the body from within 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Their immediate reaction was to clamp down hard: no hearings, no meetings, not even a mote of consideration for any nominee President Obama would put forward. Cracks in the GOP wall: The Republicans’ hardline Supreme Court obstruction is crumbling 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But he should first examine the beams in his own eye rather than the motes in others. Campaign live: Congressman Clyburn endorses Clinton in South Carolina 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Let us not see the mote in the other's eye only. U.S.-Iranian Swaps Pit Compassion Against Costs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Part of his job running the film projector was to monitor the screen for an errant hair or dust mote, which become gargantuan on an Imax screen. A long time ago, big reels of film came to Air and Space Museum. No more. 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The sensors, which the scientists called "motes," are about the size of a grain of sand. Tiny 'fitbits' to keep tabs on the body from within 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Researchers find binary star systems fascinating because of their turbulent gravitational environments, which complicate how planets clump up from motes of interstellar dust. The Real Science Inspired By Star Wars 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z But he should first examine the beams in his own eye rather than the motes in others. Campaign live: Congressman Clyburn endorses Clinton in South Carolina 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Along the lines of that Biblical idea of the mote in your eye and the beam in mine. Those Little Details Mean Greek Bailout Deal Not Reached Yet 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z It was the spotlight of his eyes, those radiant beams, that gently drew motes from the past out of me—and I loved this. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The new expansion for Destiny’s “House of Wolves” expansion hits next Tuesday, with fans are eagerly collecting motes of light and such in anticipation. Here's 'Destiny's' House Of Wolves' Launch Trailer 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z My package included motes of light, strange coins and new Passage Coins, which can be exchanged for perks that help you with future passes. Hands-On With Destiny's 'House of Wolves' PvP And The Trials Of Osiris 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The pants are said to be in excellent condition and are valued at mote than $150,000. Panthers award game, practice pants to NC. SC high schools 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Three and a half centuries of progress might seem a lot, but it is a tiny mote in the piebald passage of human history. In the beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The word “mote,” which the president used, is a kind of antiquated word for “speck,” The Post notes. Obama quotes nonexistent Bible verse during speech about immigration 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “The good book says don’t throw stones at glass houses, or make sure we’re looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks’ eyes,” he said. Obama Misquotes the Bible Defending Immigration Action 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z And a magnitude of minus 15 would be a mote of dust landing on a table. Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD, Explains Complexity Through Absurdity 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The largest interstellar dust track found in the Stardust aerogel collectors was this 35 micron-long hole produced by a 3 picogram mote that was probably traveling so fast that it vaporized upon impact. First Specks Of Stardust Found After Years Of Searching 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The languid ocean outside his trailer would end up a trivialized mote in his Instagram-feed. The truth about our Wi-Fi society: What the quest for constant connection really means 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z We may not be unique... we may be transient... we may be only flying along on a dust mote. Saturn photographed as Earth smiled 2013-11-12T15:38:53Z Dust motes seemed to be the obvious candidate. Moon Mission to Suck Up Lunar Dust 2013-09-03T16:45:00.763Z Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades? A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox 2013-08-12T20:46:10Z He memorably described the Earth as looking like a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam", such was its apparent insignificance in the vastness of space. Wave! Cassini sets up shot of Earth 2013-07-19T09:43:43Z I was a mote taken aback by the reveal. Source: Xbox One's Heart-Sensing Tech Not Microsoft's Idea 2013-05-25T00:15:50Z There would be no financial or aesthetic gain from spending millions of pounds on paint-spraying robots, he adds, instinctively flicking away a dust mote. McLaren Formula One engineers set to cash in on winning formula 2013-01-06T00:08:20Z There's control sticks and buttons, you need the Wii mote and nunchuck still and there's a proper games controller as well. Wii U: the essential guide 2012-11-29T11:38:37Z Possible non-biological sources of methane include comet strikes, degradation of interplanetary dust motes by ultraviolet light and -rock interactions, researchers said. Curiosity Rover Finds No Methane on Mars--Yet 2012-11-05T19:47:47.683Z The corporal had been stationed in a remote valley not far away, and Weston feels pangs of guilt that he did not fight harder to keep troops out of there. The Renegade Diplomat 2012-11-05T06:00:00Z It evaporated when I woke, turned to motes of memory. Without 2012-09-19T17:21:45.707Z If the entire Earth were scaled down to a nearly invisible mote of dust, even the most nearby stars would be many miles distant. The observable Universe and beyond 2012-08-26T23:07:12Z He stood listening at the bottom of the open-tread staircase, his breath barely stirring the bright dust motes in their circling. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z Too bloated by the fictitious money you have imbibed, you will not see the resulting explossion... so mote it be. America's flagging recovery: Third time unlucky 2012-06-01T13:57:29Z There's also a boost mode, with up to four people using their Wii motes to get through screen – you can set speed run records and share them in Miiverse. E3 2012: Nintendo conference – live 2012-06-05T15:50:00Z Getting perspective is one of the most difficult things to do, especially from our tiny mote of existence. From Andromeda With Love 2012-06-01T16:45:00.280Z The sun seemed to dazzle his eyes as he gazed from the window, vague figures passed before him, and crossed the dancing motes, picturing, like shadows, the persons of whom he had been thinking. Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:29.713Z The sky was absolutely clear, not a mote on its whole concavity. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z I have been a fastidious fool hitherto; and, like the other sneerers of this world, have been seeking the mote in my brother's eye, while I have forgot the beam in my own. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Self love's a mote in every man's eye. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z It is emphatically a case of the beam in our own eye as compared with the mote in the eye of our neighbor. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The sunlight was streaming into the room, and the motes were all dancing merrily in the beam. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z Some report his last words thus: "I feel like a mote in the sunbeam." The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z According to Milton, the follies of life are— “Thick and numberless, As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.” Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z I believe that sounds are living beings, flying about us like motes in the air, and that they suffer if we clutch them roughly. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Port′-mote, a mote composed of such citizens. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Between mote and beam, I think this time Russia has the latter in her eye, though God knows we have motes enough in ours. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Long underappreciated, puny motes of natural dust turn out to have a tremendous influence on climate, cloud formation, and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests. A Sea of Spacetime Foam? 2012-01-17T16:15:00.460Z DISEASE-GERMS IN THE AIR The gay motes that dance in the sunbeams are not all harmless. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z So too the ceaseless motion of the atoms is brought visibly before the imagination by the analogy of the motes dancing in the sunbeam. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If it has no other qualities, if it is merely a mote in a sunbeam, it yet exhibits this unfathomable something, at least as weight and impenetrability. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Ah! believe me, sceptic, there is a mote in thine eye, but in mine there is no beam. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Her motes are all beams until they are demolished; she uses a mountain of faith to move a mustard-seed; she cannot see the polished surface for the speck of dust that is on it. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z He saw each dust mote in the slanted sunbeams, each flower on the wallpaper, each wrinkle on his bed. Gifts of the Magi 2011-11-30T18:20:55.930Z There will be plenty of threads and motes within the new batch of correspondence that will be relevant to discussions of particular climate papers or individual researchers. Dot Earth Blog: Another Treaty Negotiation, Another Batch of Climate Science E-Mail 2011-11-22T21:23:38Z That Virginia suffered was enough, she felt instinctively that such an outburst of grief was from a far deeper source than that produced by the mote in her eye. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z The eye-stone will go circling round the eye, and most likely take up the mote in its course. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Over it all were sown burnished fleckings of myriads of mica particles, like white-hot motes from the face of the sun itself. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Through the sharp Correct reflection of the standing scene The mind can dip, and cleanse itself with rest, And see, slow spinning in the lucid gold, Your liquid motes, imperishable Time. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z "So mote it be; I will not drink." Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z He sees mote potential value in the iPhone deal and potential networking sharing contracts, but isn’t including either of those in his valuation. Time To Buy Sprint Shares Again, Credit Suisse Advises 2011-10-14T13:39:52Z It was certainly an unhappy suggestion that we should endeavor to remove the mote of religious intolerance from our brother's eye while indignantly resenting the least allusion to the beam of slavery in our own. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Mote confers with mote, And shell with shell; and corals live and die, And die and live, below the deep. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z This I dropped into a tumbler and saw the water cloud with an opalescent mist of a myriad motes and I knew that my plan was successful. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z I see that my own employment would scarcely bear the test of close criticism, for I have been watching motes in others' eyes, while a beam was in my own. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z He rides to motes and Things before his foes. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z He could not pass into the black like the motes, he could not! Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z He may merely mean to say: You speak much about heavenly things, and have filled the whole space between God’s throne and man’s earth with creatures thick as the motes in the sunbeam. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Now I can mount higher to a less dangerous altitude and watch the ship become a drifting leaf, then a floating mote, to vanish at last over a curve of the world. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z There was no other thought behind it—no human mote in that sunbeam certainly. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z But hardly had the door opened and disclosed the empty, sunny spaces swimming with motes before her old sweetness flowered again. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Millions of motes swam in the sun, and with his head resting on his forearms he watched them idly. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Impatience of uncertainty is a moral fault which mars many an intellectual process; and its evil effects are nowhere mote visible than in the field of theology. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z And His perfect spiritual sensibility discerned the treachery, unknown to others, as instinctively as the eye resents the presence of a mote imperceptible to the hand. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z A little flicker of movement happened among the woodbine, not to be seen of itself, but as a something interrupting the light like a larger mote crossing the beam. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z A wave of the hand signifies that the occupant of the bridge has already made out the mote far away upon the glassy surface of the sea, which now rapidly grows into definite form. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Those little, tiny motes would float out of nowhere into the band of sunshine and sink and dart across it, vanishing into nothingness. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Overhead, thistledown and the silken balloon of the milkweed float on their zephyr-wafted course, silver motes against the blue; and above them are the black cohorts of crows in their straggling retreat to softer climes. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z It was concluded then, and so ascertained, that the torulae in the plant proceeded from the torulae in the atmosphere, from "gay motes that people the sunbeams." Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z The mote became hot, the water was agitated, convection currents were formed, and the mote was carried up in them. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The thing is to imitate the ant-eater, and keep his tongue out to catch all nature’s motes for food. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Sir," she said to Commendone, "if this be my last hour, then so mote it be, but I swear that I knew nothing. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z See them chirping in yonder ray of sunlight—darting hither and thither, like motes in a beam of light. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z These were partly undrawn now, giving a weird effect to the half-dark room, across whose gloom a boldly-defined broad bar of light, full of tiny dancing motes, shone down upon the artist’s bed. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z It is in this region of air, when any disturbance takes place in it, that we see kindled shooting-stars, streaks of light, and shining motes, and it is there that comets are lighted and extinguished. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z And Alan returned to the window, where the light streamed in, and the motes drifted lazily up and down in its rays. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z If that be false all is false; the mind is a dark chamber full of motes and cobwebs. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The “motes” which we see in the visual field while gazing at the sky are defects in the eye-media, and these images are projected into space. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Millions of motes danced 164 in the sunshine that spread across the barn floor. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z Far off in the waste empyrean The world was a golden mote. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The mote that had floated in their depths was gone for all time. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z It would be well to cast out this beam before we worry too much over the Conservation mote. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Thanks to the temperature, humidity and light sensors, the motes could serve as mini stations. World Changing Ideas: 20 Ways to Build a Cleaner, Healthier, Smarter World (preview) 2011-05-01T14:15:51.830Z There is the beautiful lesson of the beam and the mote. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z You know you came to me first in a ladder of motes and beams. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The rupture of a nerve fiber, the obstruction of a valve, the momentary cessation of breath, the introduction of a mote at some vital point, brings this most complex structure to eternal rest. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z We move in an age which prides itself more and more on being able to see the mote in the eye of its immediate predecessor. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The spread of versatile sensors, or “motes,” and the ability of computers to analyze and either recommend or initiate responses to the data they generate, will not merely enhance our understanding of nature. World Changing Ideas: 20 Ways to Build a Cleaner, Healthier, Smarter World (preview) 2011-05-01T14:15:51.830Z But this is mote as well as beam time; this is a time when the presenter asking the questions is part of the answer. Media has no right to call the tune in the social mobility blues 2011-04-09T23:05:50Z And though his body were a poisonous plant that it were death to touch, I’d cast myself upon it! cut—carve it—to morsels—motes. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z It gives the laws of the dancing motes, and those which guide the movements of stellar worlds; the sullen forces of the elements and the subtile agencies which sustain living beings. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye. Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists 2011-03-26T02:00:17.857Z The motes danced their aimless rainbow-colored dance; in the middle of the room stood Zinka with both hands on a table over which she was bending to gaze at a magnificent basket of flowers. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z You see," continued Bacon, "that I have now removed the mote from my own eye, and that you did in my case exactly what you did in your own—you looked only at the surface. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z Whereupon be, turning to his right, says: "You will find the country very pleasant for riding, Baroness--many meadows," and to the left: "You always were accustomed to discover the mote in my eye, Snowdrop!" Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Why beholdest thou the mote that is in the eye of thy matrimonial bargain, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z So mote the ship of State move on Upon the unfathomed sea; Gallantly o’er its surges borne, The bulwark of the free. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z Tiny black motes milled over the green surfaces of the cabbages. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z The sunlight across the garret floor lay still, save for the bright bar of glittering, dancing motes. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z We cannot much longer pluck the mote from our brother's eye unmindful at the same time of the beam in our own. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z A mote that is 1 micron in diameter, the size of a bacteria, will fall just 30 microns a second. Speck by Speck, Dust Piles Up 2011-02-10T05:00:08Z Brion looked at him again and felt the impression of things so important that himself, his insults, even the Twenties were of no more interest than dust motes in the air. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z A mote in a sunbeam; an atom of matter; no more. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z How true is that parable in Scripture of the mote and the beam! Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Dusk was creeping into the inflamed sky and gray motes subdued the crimson reflection. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z "Report has, as usually, changed the mote into a beam." Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z He himself is the all-seeing eye, to whom all things are as clear as a mote in transparent crystal would be to our bodily eyes. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He usually begins: "In the old Head's day, we never, under any circumstances——" B., whose speciality is to discover motes in the eyes of other Housemasters. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Both new studies focused on tiny airborne motes spewed primarily by traffic, coal-fired power plants and industrial boilers. Air Pollution Appears to Foster Diabetes 2010-10-05T14:31:00Z They circle around me on my Google desktop app like dust motes in Brownian motion, never bumping, never landing, impossible to fix or focus on. On Twitter, Foodies Need to Spice It Up 2010-08-24T08:30:00Z Luz’s eyes were wandering again, following a dust mote, or the disappearing image of an old friend. Daniel Alarcón: “Second Lives.” 2010-08-09T04:00:00Z To those who live in constant nervous dread of impending misfortune it should be some little comfort to remember that "Every mote doth not blind a man." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources She was wirkin wi' her hand at the blankets, as if she were pickin aff the little motes; an' I could hear the beginning o' the dead rattle in her throat. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The motes that dance in sunny beams Tripped never in such wise; This lovely sprite danced in the light That beamed from her own eyes. The Coast of Bohemia But the mote in our brother’s eye seemed very large when seen across the water. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The wood was changed from a beautiful bright picture into a beautiful black photograph; twig and leaf, and silent birds, stood out like motes in the moonbeams. Witching Hill Was it the motes dancing in the sunbeams? Woman They were gone to their rath or mote; but where was the little dun cow? Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry The light spread to the dust motes in the air and curtained the whole sky with shimmering haze. The Year When Stardust Fell She sat staring at the motes dancing in the sunbeam, that fell aslant upon the floor. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales And there we were, like motes in a tube of lamp-black; for it was a darkness as palpable as fog. Witching Hill Both in the raw state and in the manufactured condition cotton also contains small black particles which adhere firmly to the material and are technically known as “motes.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Suddenly, from out the sky A mote of dust blew in his eye. The Book of Gud She noticed that there were gold motes in the air; and his pleasant, blond face seemed to wander through them; the room was full of sunlight. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play "Now if you ask who gave the stroke I cannot tell, so mote I thrive; It was not given by man alive."—Lay of the last Minstrel. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency It was Wingfield, seeing all that she saw and understanding quite as clearly, who came to her rescue at a moment when the bright August sunshine was filling with dancing black motes for her. The King of Arcadia At the same time the motes which were swelled up by the alkali are broken up into small fragments and are thus removed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" They perceive the mote in the eye of other nations, but not the beam in the eye of their own nation. The Future of International Law I am so young, so feeble, such a mote in this great atmosphere of anguish. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life A mote in the whole, an aching nerve in one great plexus. The Day of His Youth As all the others, look a little crestfallen, but strange to say many of them thought they were not whipped, but "reckoned they mote be arter a while". An Artilleryman's Diary It is true on the mote question he was not an expert. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident If you sent that letter, it would trouble your soul, as a mote in your eye would torture your sight. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance And why not in an atom on the shore To cover ocean? or a mote, the sun? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The time was late afternoon, and rays of mellow light slanted into the pretty room, and touched its crowd of inanimate occupants with a radiance in which the motes danced merrily. Bye-Ways The second represented a bedroom darkened by jalousies faintly luminous with the morning light, when through one chink, glittering with motes, a narrow sunbeam made vivid her crimson lips. Carnival Then, too, the effect of the mote was odd. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident It may have been minutes or hours later—for time has no count in emptiness—when next a sound proceeded from that frail slip of a raft, hung like a mote between sea and sky. Where the Pavement Ends Radar must have been sharp that day, because the drone, a battered B-24, was right on top of us before we picked it up, a mote in the sun's brazen eye. Cue for Quiet But the canary sang, and the motes danced merrily in the sunbeams. Bye-Ways To this the Masons present answered with one accord, "So mote it be." Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 Diana would live—but only as a mote of defeated consciousness whirled along forever into the depths of space by forces too great to fight. Daughter of the Night Like a multi-colored dust of the explosion burst a myriad of screaming birds, lories, parakeets, kingfishers, flashing motes of green and blue and scarlet in the sunshine. Where the Pavement Ends Her eyes were very brown and level and filled with dancing motes of laughter. The Sphere of Sleep You found his mote; the king your mote did see. The Bible Story The Brethren again responded in the Masonic formula, "So mote it be." Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 They are to Him very types of the men who behold the mote that is in their brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in their own eyes. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition Stark watched it, watched the chill motes brighten, watched the tracery of frost whiten over Ciara's mail, touch Balin's dark hair with silver. Black Amazon of Mars “I guess that was ’cause I was lookin’ for ‘the mote in your eyes’ ’t I got a ‘beam’ in mine so’s I couldn’t see right smart,” observed this Scripture-taught child, in keen self-reproach. Dorothy on a House Boat Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, 'Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye'; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? The Bible Story Having taken the mote out of our neighbour's eye, we proceed to take the beam out of our own. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 He took his discharge out of his pocket, brushed every mote of dust from the table, and spread the document before their eyes. Black Forest Village Stories There a long and strange procession flits before our eye—dreams, “little bustling passions,” trivialities, floating like a myriad motes into the dim Octagon. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Words being precious things, both old boys hoarded every syllable; Shep tightened his leathery lips and with the scalpel-point of the knife flicked away a mote of pine. Here Lies Two, known as “mung” and “mote,” or “moat,” are excellent for getting flesh on thin, debilitated animals. Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Valentine nodded pleasantly when they asked his permission to take Ivo with them: his mother arranged his collar, and brushed every mote of dust from his blue coat. Black Forest Village Stories Not many hours before, it had been only a dust mote, a pinpoint of light in the void. Sugar Plum After this, Bumpus, take the mote out of your own eye before you try and get a fence rail from mine. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners In the hot weather, however, I prefer to use either the “mote” or “mung” to linseed. Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies Down somewhere from those stars overhead drops a call silvery as a flute, clear as a piccolo—some night bird lilting like a mote on the far oceans of air. The Story of the Trapper In these two passages, however, the correct reading is probably “mote.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare One tiny mediocre sun, one dust mote out of a whole galaxy.” The Variable Man They gleamed like silver motes in the sun or were black as the space around them. The Graveyard of Space But it steadied and flew on, out of range of the guns, rising and dwindling until it was a speck, a mote vanishing into the western sky.... World of the Drone Clearing our motes, we turn a purged and critical eye on our fellows, now all clear of the mist, and steaming in sight. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Treffrey Graham’s eye winked upon a mote of fun that softened to a mist. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Dwell in some idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus’ train. Minor Poems by Milton They supposed that souls can exist without the body, leading a kind of dream-life, and identified the motes in the sunbeam with them. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition It might have been a scale from the feather of some passing bird, or a larger mote in the air that the stillness was allowing to settle. A Year in the Fields My father would discover my crime, if the beam in his own eye did not hinder him from seeing the mote in mine. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli In church, however, the latter feeling subsided, and gave way to that earnest calmness, and that intense devotion, which absorb for the time the cares and troubles of the soul, "like motes in light divine." Ellen Middleton—A Tale I have a beam in my own eye to take out, before I attempt to take the mote out of my brother’s. Talkers With Illustrations Mind you upon the beam and the mote!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston My heart tones thunder from the throats Of throbbing seas and raging winds; And yet, the master-spirit finds The tenderness of mother earth Is there expressed, despite the dearth Of tinkle tunes like dancing motes! Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Bring me the clasps of diamond, lucid, clear of the mote, Clasp me the large at the waist, and clasp me the small at the throat. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV For Self-blame Lord, enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye, and blind us to the mote that is in our brother’s. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Shining motes, giving off faint light, sifted through the air. The People of the Crater Our Lord God is with thee; Above all women that ever was, Lady, blessed mote thou be! Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse To harmony all growth is set— Each seed is but a music mote, From which each plant, each violet, Evolves its purple note. Weeds by the Wall Verses He saw infinitesimal motes which would be ground cars on the highways. The Hate Disease There is an old story of a mote and a beam, apparently not true, but worthy perhaps of some consideration. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) And about each perverted figure was a crown of green motes. The People of the Crater Then mote it follow, of necessity, Sith art asketh so great engine and pain A woman to deceive, what so she be? Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Dust motes in the air, reflecting sunlight, were enough to hide any microscopic geyser spout. Last Resort For, though the world carries its own great beam in its eye, it cannot refrain from judging us for our mote, and thus exalting itself as if it were pure and beautiful. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The old comparison that they are as numerous as motes, as bright, as fleeting, and as individually insignificant, comes naturally enough to the mind. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 At the highest point in the ceiling a large globe of the motes hung, furnishing soft light below. The People of the Crater He studied them until they all ran together, and his brain seemed to become a mass of luminous light with black motes floating about in it. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The little vehicle darted madly through empty highways, passing groups of men staring dazedly upward at the soaring motes overhead. The Fifth-Dimension Tube So mote it be The Procession will return in inverse order to the P.G. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time It sifted through the mud walls of his poor dwelling, and poured into the open doorway, where it hovered, quivering, like the dust motes in the sunbeams. Carmen Ariza Green motes in the air gave forth little light and seemed to cling to the intruder. The People of the Crater Inside, light and color, life and action; outside, the eternal, sable void, sprinkled with its millions of sparkling motes of worlds. Hawk Carse Jonah was only a mote in the whale’s jaws. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century The disposition in individuals to pluck motes out of their neighbors' eyes and leave beams in their own, in the nation becomes what Herbert Spencer calls the bias of patriotism. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association A stream of sunlight poured over the dusty threshold, and myriad motes danced in the golden flood. Carmen Ariza There was a curious cold lifelessness about the air of the corridor, the light-bearing motes vanishing as if blown out. The People of the Crater Response by the brethren: So mote it be. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. He touched a button; a three-foot sphere full of glistening motes appeared. Sjambak The Cynic sharply sees, but sees not far; The eye that hunts the mote may miss the star Too great for scorn's detection. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 Certainly it is much easier and pleasanter to see the mote in our brother's eye than it is to recognise a possible beam as clouding our own sight. The Truth About Woman And whenever he whistled in full tones, long drawn out, the motes in the sunbeams danced to his music. The Chinese Fairy Book Response by the Craft: So mote it be. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. Little white things appeared from those hangars—planes being thrust out into the open air while motes of men raced agitatedly about them. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 But the gaiety of the eager rays that charged the air with little gold motes, did not cheer him. The Paliser case Alas! that with the beam of suicidal measures we blind the eye political, because, forsooth, the motes of individual or local injuries afflict, as they afflict all human forms of government. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy The will of God is accomplished; so mote it be. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. It seemed only a moment later that Bell dipped down below the clouds and the other plane was visible only as a swiftly receding mote in the sunlight. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 He saw them drift, touch and part, and each be blown its way, helpless mote in the dust of the great plain. The Spanish Jade In this glare were silhouetted a myriad motes in flight. Invasion Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy Response by the Craft: So mote it be. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. Sixty brave men were dancing motes of cosmic dust before the shocked commander could sound the recall. When the Sleepers Woke As for river water, ever yellow with clay, and thick as to motes, much of it is used in the country parts. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo There were dancing motes in sight, which were aircraft. Invasion Town, torn, morn, more, mote, mite, cite, city. Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Response by the Craft: So mote it be. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. Men said that she could weave ropes of sand, and threads from the motes of the sunbeams. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI Do you see any mote in my eye? Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling High up and far away, beyond that invisible barrier against which Watch-planes had flung themselves in vain, there were tiny motes in mid-air. Invasion So mote I the, There was never yeoman in merry England I longëd so sore to see. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series Such melancholy as thou feedest is Skillful in forming such in the vain air Out of the motes and atoms of the day. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Bah! ladies and gentlemen, take the beams out of your own eyes before you allude to the motes in the optics of your fellow beings. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. So, even so, A mote in his creation, even I Seeking alone to do, to feel, to know, The Lord must magnify. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Tiny motes hovered even there, where the smallest of visible specks was a ten-man cruiser. Invasion I say, so mote I the, Forsooth such a yeoman as he is one In all England are not three. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series An orange radiance suffused Cardinal Ugolini's dining hall, gilding dust motes that hung in the air. The Saracen: The Holy War It seemed to Simon as if the air were filled with motes of gold. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel This hurt him worst of all—that these motes, these cheap little boys and girls, could now sneer at or pity Helen Merival. The Light of the Star A Novel Here is where we leave unperceived the beam in our own eye and proceed to remove the mote from our neighbor's eye. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost ‘They were worth two nobles,’ said he, ‘So mote I thrive or thee; So could I have had for them And I had there be.’ Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series It was the one possibility that disturbed him—the only fly in the amber—the only mote that troubled his clairvoyance. The Dark Star Very significantly does the Master say that the man that sees a mote in his brother's eye, usually has a rafter in his own eye! Days of Heaven Upon Earth "How can I appeal to these motes?" he asked himself. The Light of the Star A Novel When only apparently a mote is found, it is exaggerated to a very great beam. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Thereof she was full fain; ‘Gramercy, sir,’ then said she; ‘When ye come to this country again I shall buy of thy pottës, so mote I thee.’ Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series Is it a case of the mote and the beam? Gems (?) of German Thought Far out in space, tiny, almost like a dust mote against the great bulk of the monster planet, rode a tiny light. Empire Who such a mote of brightness in the public eye, as Cute! A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Nevertheless, he watched as well as one might under such circumstances, feeling himself but a mote on the side of a great mountain in all the immensity of the wilderness. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The ward mote or ward meeting still exists, and elects the alderman or representative of the ward on the City Council. The History of London The air about her seemed to swoon with music, to be sweet as roses, to be spangled with golden motes. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel The mote of light became a gleaming silver ship, a mighty ship—one that was fully as large as the Invincible! Empire The hosts of Hate roll past, A dance of dust motes in the sliding sun; Love's battle comes on the wide wings of storm, From east to west one legion! Gloucester Moors and Other Poems While he was yet dizzy and the motes were flying in millions before his eyes, he heard shouts, and warriors came running, attracted by the sound of the shots. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The people had their folk mote, or general gathering: their ward mote: and their weekly hustings. The History of London A slender, girlish figure it was, and the shadow of a heavily plumed riding hat danced with the motes in the sunbeams while the young woman stood, warily, peering into the room. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Brilliant butterflies float like motes in the sunshine, contrasting with the repulsive whip-snakes seen hanging from the low branches of the trees. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands They dance like motes in the sunbeam for a moment, and then are illumined no more. The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre The motes ceased to dance before his eyes and the blood flowed back into his veins. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain The bright rays that streamed in through the window struck athwart the glimmering dust motes in the little bare room, and fell, pleasantly warm, upon the man who lay in the deerhide chair. Hawtrey's Deputy Across the white, sanded floor golden patches of light had moved with measured tread, and merry motes had danced in the golden beams, but nothing else had stirred. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Ten thousand giant ships, shining dully in the radiance of a far-off blue-white sun, met ten thousand tiny, darting motes, ten thousand tiny machine-ships capable of maneuvering far more rapidly than the giants. The Last Evolution There can be hardly a doubt that some of the motes in the sunbeam, and many of the particles which good housekeepers abhor as dust, have indeed a cosmical origin. The Story of the Heavens Or why, she asks, when that counsel is rejected, why does he not, still mote aptly, consult Brünnhilde, wise child of Wotan and Erda? The Wagnerian Romances In the ray of light filtering through the tiny windows of the cupola millions of dust motes illuminated by the sun danced in an ascending spiral. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The rotund innkeeper slumbered peacefully in front of his great hearth, and small patches of November sunshine lay on the floor, while merry November motes danced in the yellow beams. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Phyl, as she stood for a moment on the threshold, saw motes dancing in the bar of light; the air was close and almost stuffy owing to the windows being shut. The Ghost Girl For myself, houses would be empty But for the golden motes dancing in sunbeams. Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments Two of the most simple preparations of maize are those called choclas and mote. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Thus do a man’s children play hide and seek with the beam in his eye while he practises upon the mote in theirs! The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance At first you imagine they are motes clogging the delicate blood-vessels of the retina; then you wonder if a distant host of falling meteors could have passed. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year It seemed to her that she knew this room, from the beam of light with the motes dancing in it to the bird-patterned paper. The Ghost Girl It seemed that to open the doors, to fill the room with radiance, must surely kill the mutinous motes which warred upon the tortured body. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West A raggit coat was ne'er a mote in a man's marriage. The Proverbs of Scotland May's glowing sun, shining through the scantily covered branches, made dancing motes of heat wave above the surface of red clay. A Tar-Heel Baron Emancipated from the normal life of the higher plants, even flowers have been denied them and their fruit is but a cloud of brown dust,—each mote a simple cell. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year He winked his eyes rapidly to clear away any motes. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" He had that sort of genius which can be long asleep in the dark, while its possessor dances, like a mote, in sunshine. Tongues of Conscience "This phrase is always applied when people, with pretence of friendship, do you an ill turn, as one licking a mote out of your eye makes it blood shot." The Proverbs of Scotland The bright rays that streamed in through the window struck athwart the glimmering dust motes in the little bare room, and fell, pleasantly warm, upon the man who sat in the deerhide chair. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Finally the Lassie, which had somehow been induced to “mote,” was descried coming across the bay from the direction of the old fisherman’s cabin. The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar Am altogether in a dishevelled state of mind—motes of new books in the dirty air, miseries of older growth threatening to close upon me. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete At that time Ruth had been less than a mote 28 in the eye of Uncle Jabez. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Then leave, ah! leave the little mote Which thou, and thou alone, Mark’st in his eye, and take away The beam that blinds thine own. Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life Dust motes crossed them in lazy eddies, each visible for a golden moment as it entered the glow of its brief importance, only to be blotted into invisibility as it passed. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The boys had a way of doing the most absurd things, from a mechanical standpoint, whenever their motors refused to mote. The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar I will not have it, said the king, I swear, so mote I thee; Thy foul cow-hide I would not bear, If thou wouldst give it to me. The Book of Brave Old Ballads Where, save that feeble fountain, all is still; Nor mote my shell awake the weary Nine To grace so plain a tale—this lowly lay of mine. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 The horn was commonly used for summoning the folk mote in Saxon times, and in quite early days horns sounded in English homes on the arrival of guests. Chats on Household Curios Let us remember "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mote away; Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." The Right of American Slavery 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 They are no thieves, the king replied, I swear, so mote I thee: But they are the lords of the north country, Here come to hunt with me. The Book of Brave Old Ballads How many of you have taken the beam out of your own eye before attempting to pluck the mote out of your brother's? The Uncalled A Novel About them the dust motes danced in the light, the air hung heavy and stagnant, smelling of chemicals, the thick sickly scent of blood, the sharper reek of sweat. Between the Lines Thousands of tiny, flitting bat-like creatures—miniature pterodactyls of the terrestrial Age of Reptiles—hovered over a swamp, where millions of insects hung like motes in the light of the low sun. The Planet Strappers After striking the mote or mark aimed at, the stone bounced off a few hundred yards and settled there. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Be not afraid, tanner, said our king; I tell thee, so mote I thee, Lo here I make thee the best esquire That is in the north country. The Book of Brave Old Ballads The far side of the Shed’s floor had other men on it, and they were merely jerkily moving motes. Space Platform When the earth shall quake, quaking! and the mountains shall crumble, crumbling, and become like motes dispersed! A Source Book for Ancient Church History A mote, He specks the eye of the age and turns to dust, And is the sport of centuries. Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics Her brow felt cold and clammy; her eyes grew dim, and as though motes of fire were rushing by; but ere she could summon help she fell back senseless on her pillow. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Out of the blue arch away over yonder a small black dot had resolved itself and was swinging to and fro, like a mote. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights There was still another ounce of strength left, and now he used it, fairly springing through the thicket, while his heart beat hard and painfully and clouds of black motes danced before his eyes. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye? Spontaneous Activity in Education We may not be able to trace their line of parentage, for our imperfect vision cannot follow the motes which play in the sunbeam, nor track them from their birth-place to their final home. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' It would be far better for each man to look for the beam in his own eyes before he troubles himself about the mote in his neighbor's. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 Almost all liquids have motes in them sufficiently numerous to polarise sensibly the light, and very beautiful effects may be obtained by simple artificial devices. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He saw the evil joy in the man’s eyes, his anticipation of quick and savage victory, and then the cloud of motes before his own eyes increased to myriads. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness But whatever it is, mote or beam, it is awfully irritating. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 Is there a mote in my brothers eye? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning And then that pea diminished until the spaceship from Krim, Walden, Cetis, Rigel and the Nearer Rim had become the size of a dust mote and then could not be seen at all. The Pirates of Ersatz When the current was interrupted, and the air within the shade cooled, the returning air did not carry motes along with it, being filtered by the wool. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The breath of May! and the day was fair, And the bright motes danced in the balmy air. The Book of Humorous Verse It became a speck, and then a mote at the crawling end of a trail of opaque white emergency-rocket fumes. Talents, Incorporated Perhaps there may be a beam in my own; and why then should I look to the mote that is in my brother's eye? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning "But you ought to have joined the church because it was your duty," said Bertie, who could very clearly see the mote in her sister's eye, in spite of the beam in her own. Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life The floating motes resembled minute particles of liquid which had been carried mechanically from the U-tubes into the experimental tube. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Labour low levels longest, loftiest lines; Men march 'midst mounds, motes, mountains, murd'rous mines. The Book of Humorous Verse The Isis ceased to be a shape and became the most minute of motes. Talents, Incorporated But it is the breaking in of a beam of that Sun of Righteousness that maketh any such discovery, as motes are not seen till the sun shine, though the house be full of them. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning I arrived at noon, when a bright sun set the country air afloat with motes like dust of gold. The Thing from the Lake In fact, it requires long-continued action on the part of an acid first to wet the motes and afterwards to destroy them. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Each flash destroyed something which, in scale, was less than a dust mote. A Matter of Importance Quivering on the tops of the timber, the horizontal sunbeams created, in their refraction, brilliant prismatic colorings, and filled the air with motes like golden dust. Rookwood The opening was closed again, the baluster twisted, and it was again opened, the lads pausing before the dark cavity, across which the coloured rays played over a bar of dancing motes. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story Canoes were drifting to and fro like motes in the darkness, tipped with a phosphorescent rim. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska This, however, was the case; the motes really came from without. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But more motes appeared, and more and more and more. A Matter of Importance They play before me like motes in a sunbeam, enjoying the passing ray; whilst an English head, searching for more solid happiness, loses in the analysis of pleasure the volatile sweets of the moment. Mary Wollstonecraft And there, within this vista of light, surrounded by dancing motes, was the landlord’s daughter. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story The boat itself stirs only when I break This drowse of heat and solitude afloat To prove if what I see be bird or mote, Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake. Last Poems A plug of the wool, rammed pretty tightly into the tube through which the air passed, was finally found competent to hold back the motes. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The squad ship's sixty feet of length was a mote so minute by comparison that no comparison was possible. A Matter of Importance In one particular, all men may be considered as belonging to the first grand division, inasmuch as they all seem equally desirous of discovering the mote in their neighbour's eye. The Biglow Papers I sit drumming absent-mindedly with my fingers in the shimmering motes. The Choice of Life The mighty sun, which is the centre of all worlds, but a mote floating in the beam of His being! Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. In the present experiment the motes have been brought by gentle air-currents, established by slight differences of temperature within our closed vessels, into contact with the interior surface, to which they adhere. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 To ride, to run, to rant, to roar, To alwaye spend and never spare, I wot, an' it were the king himself, Of gold and fee he mote be bare. English Songs and Ballads Reaching up her hand to gather one of the taller branches, a mote, a bit of bark—some hateful thing—falls into Molly's right eye. Molly Bawn Though it is only something tiny--what Jesus called a mote--how painful it is and how helpless he is until it is removed! The Calvary Road A brave man he was, capable of lowering and lifting those tremendous beams as if they were motes, and standing on them while in motion. Pagan and Christian Rome This advice, coming from so white a priestess, and in words that lent so musical and sweet a sanction, removed the last mote of conjecture from the air. The Wrong Woman The heir of Linne is full of gold: And come with me, my friends, said he, Let 's drinke, and rant, and merry make, And he that spares, ne'er mote he thee. English Songs and Ballads A huge lizard, a hundred feet long, rushed at them but a flash of the disintegrating tubes dissolved it into dancing motes of light. Giants on the Earth Now we all know what Jesus meant by the mote in the other person's eye. The Calvary Road The beam in one's own eye is so much harder to perceive than the mote in the eye of one's brother. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion The sun poured into the room from the western windows and a thousand motes danced in its beams. The Second Chance Nor chair, nor table he mote spy, No cheerful hearth, no welcome bed, Nought save a rope with a running noose, That dangling hung up o'er his head. English Songs and Ballads The sunlight penetrated through the bodies for a moment and then there was nothing but a group of dancing motes of light to mark where they had stood. Giants on the Earth I suggest that the beam in our eye is simply our unloving reaction to the other man's mote. The Calvary Road Then the prince ran upstairs to the fairy cupboard, his heart beating loudly with excitement, The sun was shining through the arrow-shot window; all the yellow motes were dancing in its rays. Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" Brion looked at him again and felt the impression of things so important that he himself, his insults, even the Twenties were of no more interest than dust motes in the air. Planet of the Damned If thou lookest, Uncle Toby, in search of this mote one moment longer, thou art undone. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II We are motes in the midst of generations: we have our sunbeams to circuit and climb. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The mote in him has provoked in us resentment, or coldness, or criticism, or bitterness, or evil speaking, or ill will--all of them variants of the basic ill, unlove. The Calvary Road An empty bottle stop them! well, that’s queer: it may stop a man drinking, because he can get no mote out of it. The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook In threatening to tear the mote from his eye, what about a certain obstruction in mine? The Chauffeur and the Chaperon It won't surface if there's anything bulkier than a few dust motes in the way. Legacy In other folks we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find: To our own stronger errors blind. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse A mote means in the Greek a little splinter, whereas a beam means a rafter. The Calvary Road In the matter of bank notes alone, the number of forged motes presented at the Bank of England in 1817 was no less than 31,180. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King The selfe same that I wrote out of, so mote I go. Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College Then with a wizen smirk he proudly felt No other mote of God had ever gained Such giant grasp of universal truth. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I “Some people,” retorted the lady, “never apply the parable of the mote and the beam, because they can’t see their own faults.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land But as we take these simple steps of repentance, then we see clearly to cast out the mote out of the other's eye, for the beam in our eye has gone. The Calvary Road But he had covered no more than fifty yards when the third bomb fell from that plane so far aloft that it was not even a mote in the sky. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 The sun was shining through the arrow-shot window, all the yellow motes were dancing in its rays. Prince Prigio From the mote that plays its little frolic in the sunbeam, to the world that blazes along the sapphire spaces of the firmament, are visible the ever-varying features of the enrapturing spirit of Beauty. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Pierre had tried to keep her a good deal to himself, but she had been elusive as a golden mote dancing up and down. A Little Girl in Old Detroit We may see then that the mote we were so conscious of before, is virtually non-existent--it was but the projection of something that was in us. The Calvary Road Swiftly the Solarite climbed, hovering at last on the very rim of the cloud blanket, an invisible mote in a sea of gray mist. The Black Star Passes I could not help feeling myself a mote in the dazzling sunshine of their happiness. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author He saw her in a sort of mist of dancing golden motes. The Triflers The branches droop above my head, The motes sleep in the slanting beam, Yon hawk sails through the sunset red— Adieu thought, sailing through a dream! Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A few proposals, amongst others some initiated by her worthy uncle, had vanished like a crowd of motes. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands These ships would be a match for those flashing motes of the Yellow Sun. The Black Star Passes Across Godolphin's head the dim hollow of the auditorium showed, pierced by long bars of sunlight full of dancing motes, which slanted across its gloom from the gallery windows. The Story of a Play A Novel Away goes everything but the pagan joy of life, the pagan ecstasy of swift movement, and the leaping blood that is quick as the motes in a sunray falling from a southern sky. The Call of the Blood The American mote could be plainly descried beyond the broad ocean, but the Irish beam was not visible across the narrow channel. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Aloft, where the rays filtered through the clerestory windows, their innumerable motes swam like gold-dust held in solution. The Mayor of Troy She does not care a mote for the title of 'old maid' with which her mother often threatens her. The Rector of St. Mark's Way, way above the Eagle flew another bird, so tiny that he looked like nothing but a mote, floating in the sunlight. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Along those strands there seemed to be threaded motes of light, giving a silvery sheen which was a faint echo of the Foanna's tresses. Key Out of Time Sir Percivale became a monk; other knights returned no mote, thus spilling the best blood of the table round. A Hero and Some Other Folks "Oh, if you can only get this one to—mote!" sighed Mollie. The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley He makes music with flakes of light, with bright motes of pigment. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers When sunrise laid a yellow beam, all full of dancing motes, across her bed, she heard Bill stir, heard him moving about the apartment with restless steps. North of Fifty-Three She read, re-read, and, for the moment, that is when she was shut in alone with the books, her life with Claude presented itself to her like a mote in space. The Way of Ambition At first he thought it was a mote in his eye, and he rubbed the pupils but the mote grew larger, and then he looked with a new and stronger interest. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky "Well, if we're going to mote—let's mote!" exclaimed Mollie, perhaps with a desire to change the subject. The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley Uncle Toby, looking for the mote in the eye of the Widow Wadman, must have felt as did our wandering Florian. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain The electricity of universal sympathy, of action and reaction, pervades everything, the planets and the motes in the sunbeam. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He was sitting cross-legged in a corner, smoking his narghîleh, capriciously illumined by thin slants of light, alive with motes, from the Venetian blinds. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 He saw people as thick as motes in the sun, that should in time be brought home to the Lord, that there might be but one shepherd and p. 51one sheepfold in all the earth. A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers Grace, if you have any chocolates left you might offer them as a prize for the one who first discovers the difficulty—and why the motor won't mote. The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley |
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