As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Gravity has no physical attributes; it is abstract and impalpable. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Hawking's Grand Book, But Where Is the Design? (Part 2)] Reference
He waited for the sun to pierce this impalpable fog, but waited in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
He had the permanent distinction of revealing scientifically the existence of invisible, impalpable substances, namely gases. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
An impalpable pulse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An impalpable cloud. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : impalpable distinctions. From Dictionary.com.
If we want endless, satisfying blue, we must look up to where it dwells in impalpable space, shining like solid enamel, or liquid and vague. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
All sorts of higher abstractions bring with them the same kind of impalpable appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Nothing was given you but those impalpable threads. From Wordnik.com. [Precipitations] Reference
With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field. From Wordnik.com. [Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth] Reference
And ka-boom, the resulting movement was impalpable and unstoppable. From Wordnik.com. [David Helfenbein: Generation Y, President Obama, Changing the World, & Smthg we all Have 2 Face: Getting Older] Reference
It did not alter their daily lives: it was still too far off and too impalpable. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
They could feel that their lungs were becoming clogged with the almost impalpable dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Armenium was a metallic color, and was prepared by being ground to an impalpable powder. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Intraparty struggle, with an impalpable movement can in fact win (refer back to Obama, 2008). From Wordnik.com. [David Helfenbein: 2012: The Memo for Winning for Both Parties (for now)] Reference
An impalpable dust, raised by the feet of the dancers, filled the air charged with acrid odors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The impalpable, formless brown fog was about him Its acrid scent of burning was in his nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
= — Take alum, reduced to an impalpable powder, two drams; nitreous spirits of ether, seven drams. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
A breeze, that blew daily without fail, served to raise a fine impalpable dust that permeated everything. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
It is then taken into another room, packed into a "Jordan engine," and ground into an almost impalpable pulp. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
Into his ears came the first faint rumors of things astir, and he began to work on the almost impalpable scent. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Its impalpable fineness and softness makes Pozzoni's cooling, refreshing and beautifying to the most delicate skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Take one ounce white lead; half ounce gum arabic, in the impalpable powder; half ounce white rosin, in the fine powder. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Justice itself is impalpable as an abstraction, and abstract liberty the merest phantasy that ever amused the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
So here we were, only a few miles from our destination, yet prevented by an impalpable and unknown obstacle from reaching it!. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
Something slightly tangible; something partially impalpable with some of the thought, feeling and memory of this thing called. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Nawin smiled awkwardly at the words that gave proof to an impalpable conjecture and made him assess how trite human interaction was. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Each fought the obsession in his own way, but it is hard to fight the impalpable, hence their sick fancies grew in spite of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
They stared at something far away and invisible, an impalpable shifting nothingness somewhere in the infinite distances beyond the world. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Birnier, noticing that the desired astonishment was registered by an almost impalpable start, stopped the machine and changed the record. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
There was a something beyond, faint, vague, impalpable as yet, which the rolling mists begirt as sometimes they cincture an Alpine needle. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Everything suffers a sea-change in the depths of Mr. Hawthorne's mind, gets rimmed with an impalpable fringe of melancholy moss, and there is. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
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