One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I was obliged to make inquiries concerning his whereabouts, and this investigation soon convinced me that there was something wrong in Mayo after all; not the _spectre vert_ exactly, but yet an unpleasant impalpability. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)
This was taken off, one cup of water poured out, and three cups full of the powder, after she had ascertained its impalpability between her finger and thumb, were stirred in with a stick of cinnamon. ❋ Various (N/A)
They represent metaphorically, however, certain important qualities of verse which, with the exception of rime, cannot from their very impalpability be formally explained, but can only be suggested and partially described. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Not often subtle in impulse or recondite in mood, his art has nothing of the impalpability, the drifting, iridescent vapours of Debussy, nothing of the impenetrable backgrounds of Brahms. ❋ Lawrence Gilman (1908)
The spirit finds Dante alive in the flesh and he in turn on account of the impalpability of the shade clasps only empty air. ❋ Unknown (1902)
And, in below the sunshine of the gorse, where rough Mother Earth should have been, there lay instead a soft sunset cloud, the tender cream-yellow and green of myriads of primroses and the just uncurling fronds of the bracken -- primroses in such unbroken sheets and masses as to give a weird effect of remoteness and impalpability to that which was solid and close at hand. ❋ John Oxenham (1896)
Perhaps one day, between them, they would break down the barrier, the strength of which seemed to lie in its very flimsiness, its impalpability. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul. ❋ Unknown (1891)
There was nothing teasing or wilfully elusive in Hawthorne's impalpability, such as I afterwards felt in Thoreau; if he was not there to your touch, it was no fault of his; it was because your touch was dull, and wanted the use of contact with such natures. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
After this, being landed, it was rapture to stroll up and down the good road, and feel it hard and real under our feet, and not an abysmal impalpability, while all the grim shapes of our dreams fled to the spectral line of small boats sustaining the ferry-barge, and swaying slowly from it as the drowned men at their keels tugged them against the tide. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone — and let it be a large heavy stone that shall grind that wicked old man into a powder of exceeding impalpability. ❋ Unknown (1873)
The dry air seemed to dissipate all noxious emanations and decay -- the very dust itself in its fine impalpability was volatile with ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
But even out of the mouths of their soundest reasoners it is easy to demonstrate the futility, the impalpability of their axioms in general. ❋ Unknown (1849)
*yawn* another bidimensional amoeba complaing about the impalpability of the hawking theorem, but thanks for caring. ❋ Unknown (2010)
