For awhile it floated uncertainly and impalpably before him, and only slowly, like an approaching spectre, took upon itself shape and presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Generally the atmosphere is hazy; and this is caused by the falling of impalpably fine dust, which was found to have slightly injured the astronomical instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Harlan, looking at her profile, became aware that her chin, while of an engaging firmness, had that impalpably soft texture that suggests the powdered wing of a creamy butterfly. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The colour is very brilliant when first made, and retains its hue well in distemper and decorative painting; but it has the common defect of copper blues of turning green in oil, when ground impalpably for artistic use. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
However, the major media companies such as News Corporation and Time Warner who always pretend themselves as independent and non-aligned to governments, commenced softening their approach toward Iran and atmosphere around it impalpably right after the victory of President-elect Obama was publicized. From Wordnik.com. [Change we need, Change we did!] Reference
Nowhere else did the evening gray and sombre into the mysterious night impalpably as here. From Wordnik.com. [Margret Howth, a Story of To-day] Reference
The afternoon waned into twilight, softly, impalpably, and the twilight wavered into night. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Merrithew] Reference
Almost impalpably it added to the familiar feeling -- or lack of feeling -- with regard to Robin. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
A mysterious, vague shape grew impalpably upon the strained vision; a horse sneezed, then nickered eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [Rowdy of the Cross L] Reference
Shimmering impalpably over the rock and dust of the physical Jerusalem, there blazes a second, celestial city. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Sitting there day after day with her sewing, she speculated about the mystery which hung impalpably yet undeniably over the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Fear] Reference
Eben seemed to be waving before their eyes an envelope and to be talking about intercepted letters which was all absurdly, impalpably funny. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
At each sweep of the prodigious feather the fog grew thinner, until it melted impalpably away, and the former landscape returned, yet warm with the glowing sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
At each sweep of the prodigious feather, the fog grew thinner, until it melted impalpably away, and the former landscape returned, yet warm with the glowing sun. From Wordnik.com. [Legends and Tales] Reference
She bent her head over her work again, holding it up to the light from time to time and straining her eyes to catch the exact thread with her almost impalpably fine needle. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
These, mingling and coalescing, had formed the dense masses of vapour which hung so impalpably over the dangerous, thickly populated sea-areas in the closer vicinity of the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference
She argued with herself that this conflict which had so impalpably gathered and so suddenly burst in storm was a nightmare coming out of the shadows and had no substance of reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of Weakness] Reference
England had property valuable to the auctioneer; but the accumulate manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lay impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer could estimate?. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
Tell No One – Harlan Coben Audio Book NEW CD movie AudioBook Taking Book Audio Cd tape mp3 australia new zealand popular bestselling new Crud, this salient impalpably sniffled save some reproachful popular. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Tell No One – Harlan zealand No Taking AudioBook movie popular] Reference
Then, -- impalpably, with no even inner voice, -- he asked himself what chance he might have of prevailing with the girl herself; and he almost ventured to tell himself that in that direction he need not despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
Then — impalpably, with no even inner voice, — he asked himself what chance he might have of prevailing with the girl herself; and he almost ventured to tell himself that in that direction, he need not despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
The magnitude of the universal forces enlarges the pettiness of man, and the smallness of his achievement and endurance takes a complexion of greatness from the vague immensity that surrounds and impalpably mixes with it. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference
He exacted no promise that she would be present in the morning to receive him; and it was a consolation to her desire for freedom, until she reflected on the perfect confidence it implied, and felt as a quivering butterfly impalpably pinned. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
Hope Wayne and Lawrence Newt that he was very often at her house; and sometimes, whenever they all appeared to be conscious that each one was thinking of that fact, the cloud of constraint settled more heavily, but just as impalpably as before, over the little circle. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps] Reference
Where, however, the lava ascends rapidly through the channel, it often attains the open air with so much vapour in it, and this intimately mingled with the mass, that the explosion rends the materials into an impalpably fine powder, which may float in the air for months before it falls to the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference
While it is true that Chávez is certainly not a human rights violator or an anti-constitutionalist, nor opposed to freedom of the press, nor a cruel nor particularly petty person-none of these-it also is impalpably correct that what is lamentable about his profile are the demonstrable shortcomings in his personal behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Spero News] Reference
(like showers of rain, originally rising impalpably, distill'd from land and sea,) duly returning there again. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
It was not so much a movement as a "spirit afloat;" it was within us, "rising up in hearts where it was least suspected, and working itself, though not in secret, yet so subtly and impalpably, as hardly to admit of precaution or encounter on any ordinary human rules of opposition. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
I stayed impalpably, imponderably near him. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Modern Ghost Stories] Reference
3. impalpably. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
“awareness”, an unanalysable “impalpably given. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
Over all -- over men, decks, rope-coils -- in the cabin, in the engine-room -- between skylight leaves -- on every shelf, in every cranny -- lay a purplish ash or dust, very impalpably fine. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
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