"Something like a London fog" it has been called, "only a dust fog," – an animated fog in which everything unsubstantial is fair prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference

But they had a strangely vague and unsubstantial look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference

It is as unsubstantial as the air in which it is formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

And on his psychical side he is not an unsubstantial wraith, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

The brain is the least solid and most unsubstantial looking organ in the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Unlike us, who may be unsubstantial, but are at least real, they aren't even that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

Council was a small matter; only fools would go to war for an unsubstantial shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

Certainly not the vapory, unsubstantial kind that flit through mansions such as mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

Do you think I'm going to have my character sworn away on such unsubstantial hallucinations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference

Beside it rises the Campanile, as fair as a dream, and in appearance almost as unsubstantial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

She put her arm round the schoolmistress and held up the shaking, unsubstantial little figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference

In her white and pearls she was shadowy, unsubstantial, almost spectral, but she raised her glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

Being, 'without parts, and consequently unsubstantial, we try to think of such a Being; but in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference

Restoration unsubstantial and meaningless, and they had no ambition to attempt flights in those realms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Matter therefore is the reality and the imagination a nonentity, an unsubstantial idea; or an imagination only. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference

Yet on such unsubstantial bases every miner built a pet theory, and a large "stampede" took place in consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Consuming their reason in those deep but unsubstantial meditations, their minds were exposed to illusions of fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

Then a white phantom boat, thin, vapory, unsubstantial, now seen, now lost again, appears on the skirts of our horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

These unsubstantial fleeting barriers are dissipated in an instant before the mighty breath of their omnipotent passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

This characteristic of womanliness is not that weak, unsubstantial quality which we sometimes associate with effeminacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

They will dissipate the rainbow-glories of unreal pleasure, and banish the glittering meteors of unsubstantial happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference

"It is better as it is," thought the father, unconscious that he was echoing such an unsubstantial philosophy as a poet's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

Sultan -- seemed unsubstantial as one of those cities that the mirage had set before us in the heart of the R'hamna plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

It is gathered and eaten by the Arabs, but, like an unsubstantial fungus growth, melts or rots in the course of a day or two.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference

And should anyone in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept?.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

His room was beneath hers -- the cottage was built in the usual thin and unsubstantial fashion -- and every sound from the room below rose to hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

That something unforeseen was at hand; and our pleasant dreams were destined to fade away like an unsubstantial pageant, leaving not a rack behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Miss Heatherton was to pour the tea, and Miss Long was to distribute the thin lettuce sandwiches which formed its somewhat unsubstantial accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

For an instant, accustomed though he was to the high places among the mountain crags, his senses reeled before the impression of unsubstantial vastness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

There is an affected absence of effect in his "Arundel Castle" -- the blues and yellows are not in harmony -- and all has an uncomfortable, unsubstantial look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

It yielded to her touch, and she stole into the kitchen and up the back stairs like an unsubstantial shadow of the night, rather than a very tired and sore-hearted girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

We come now to poetry, which some people consider very unsubstantial pabulum, but which forms one of the most precious and inspiring portions of the literature of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

On the one hand, Ethics saves Dogmatics from evaporating into unsubstantial speculation, and by affording the test of workableness, keeps it upon the solid foundation of fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

For want of dignity or beauty, many good things are passed and forgotten; and much ancient wisdom is overrun and hidden by a rampant verdure, succulent, but unsubstantial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference