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  • I unlocked my office, stepped into the close-smelling, dust-moted air.†   (source)
  • He was a mote caught in the glare of the noon sun.†   (source)
  • I thought of myself as hanging in the Store, a mote imprisoned on a shaft of sunlight.†   (source)
  • Which, Peter realized, probably meant there was a dust mote on a shelf.†   (source)
  • I saw every dust mote, every splinter in the wood-paneled walls, every loose thread in microscopic detail as my eyes whirled past them.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger looked at the depersonalized mote doing its faraway acrobatics, feeling nothing but a premonition of sorrow.†   (source)
  • The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one particular path, and lands in one particular location, is to understand the will of Amaat.†   (source)
  • So mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • I used to lecture her on the dangers of flying sparks, reminding her that even one fiery mote could set a house ablaze, but she never seemed to hear me, only propping the screen to one side, happy to shield but a small corner of the room.†   (source)
  • But Norris, in his reply, calmly asked the minister whether he had "made any attempt to take the beam out of your own eyes, so that you can see more clearly how to pluck the mote out of your brother's eye.†   (source)
  • (Enter Mote,) Sir Thomas!†   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
  • And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?   (source)
  • Let him learn that every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck, and that what he sows he reaps.   (source)
  • A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.   (source)
  • as many inaccuracies as there are motes in a sunbeam   (source)
  • He claps a hand to his face but it's too late—she's away, spinning, biting her tail, dancing in the moted sunlight that spills through the window glass.†   (source)
  • The other mote lay quiescent against her.†   (source)
  • And there was another psychokinesthetic mote within her awareness!†   (source)
  • The other whirling mote swept near, and Jessica compelled herself to touch it.†   (source)
  • The other mote darted wildly here, there, circling.†   (source)
  • Jessica sensed the daughter-mote still touching her inner awareness, probed it without response.†   (source)
  • The other mote faded back into pre-birth awareness as Jessica watched it.†   (source)
  • Jessica tried to reject it, but the mote swept closer …. closer.†   (source)
  • When I call he comes to me, as I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • Lights rise to show Mote, seated, and ROPER, standing.†   (source)
  • A pause) Mote Must you wear those clothes, Will?†   (source)
  • She stared at the frozen expressions around her, seeing a dust mote above Chani's head, stopped there.†   (source)
  • Jessica sensed a forced shift in the mutual awareness, saw another mote-presence with the inward eye.†   (source)
  • A tiny outflowing of love-comfort, like a reflection of what she had poured into it, came from the other mote.†   (source)
  • She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings.†   (source)
  • She was the mote, yet not the mote.†   (source)
  • With her psychokinesthetic probing, she moved into it, shifted an oxygen mote, allowed another carbon mote to link, reattached a linkage of oxygen …. hydrogen.†   (source)
  • This realization returned a small measure of confidence, and again she ventured to focus on the psychokinesthetic extension, becoming a mote-self that searched within her for danger.†   (source)
  • Jessica turned her head, stared down into the basin at the golden shadows, the purple shadows, the vibrations of dust-mote air across the lip of their cave.†   (source)
  • The sensation of mote-awareness faded slightly, its intensity easing as her body relaxed from the threat of the poison, but still she felt that other mote, touching it with a sense of guilt at what she had allowed to happen to it.†   (source)
  • There each glittering mote melded into the next, until three spheres of pure gold, each the size of a large hazelnut, rested on his hand.†   (source)
  • They were in a nowhere place, neither part of the heavens nor part of the world below—a mote passing through the margin separating two immensities.†   (source)
  • At first he assumed it was a mote of dust, but then he noticed that the point never varied in its distance from Saphira, and when he saw it, it was always in the same place.†   (source)
  • So mote it be.†   (source)
  • As we will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As we will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • As I will, so mote it be.†   (source)
  • And, waking, I beheld her there Sea-dreaming in the moted air, A siren lithe and debonair, With wristlets woven of scarlet weeds, And oblong lucent amber beads Of sea-kelp shining in her hair.†   (source)
  • Everything will go forward so much mote pleasantly.†   (source)
  • It should have been later than it was; it should have been late, yet the yellow slashes of mote-palpitant sunlight were latticed no higher up the impalpable wall of gloom which separated them; the sun seemed hardly to have moved.†   (source)
  • A mote.†   (source)
  • Once there was—Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity's myriad components?†   (source)
  • The sun, whose concentrated glare dwarfs the earth into a restless mote of dust, had sunk behind the forest, and the diffused light from an opal sky seemed to cast upon a world without shadows and without brilliance the illusion of a calm and pensive greatness.†   (source)
  • It is a very little world, a mote, a speck, and I marvel that men should dare to venture the sea on a contrivance so small and fragile.†   (source)
  • "Which to secure, no skill of leach's art Mote him availle, but to returne againe To his wound's worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine."†   (source)
  • There was only a narrow slit left between their lids, by which he preserved a pennisular relation to me; thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams, and endeavoring to realize me, vague object or mote that interrupted his visions.†   (source)
  • The guest from the garths; he on getting of vengeance Of harms thought more greatly than of the sea's highway, If he but a wrath-mote might yet be a-wending 1140 Where the bairns of the Eotens might he still remember.†   (source)
  • "Deerslayer has shown himself a boy, in going among the savages at this hour, and letting himself fall into their hands like a deer that tumbles into a pit," growled the old man, perceiving as usual the mote in his neighbor's eyes, while he overlooked the beam in his own; "if he is left to pay for his stupidity with his own flesh, he can blame no one but himself."†   (source)
  • Of course the hall inside is our winter Mote-House; for in summer we mostly meet in the fields down by the river opposite Barn Elms.†   (source)
  • It had never been a good eye to see with—had long had the mote in it of Lucifer's pride, Sardanapalus's luxury, and a mole's blindness—but it had dropped out and was gone.†   (source)
  • Then, of course, there is the ornament, which, as we must all allow, may easily be overdone in mere living houses, but can hardly be in mote-halls and markets, and so forth.†   (source)
  • The nighthawk circled overhead in the sunny afternoons—for I sometimes made a day of it—like a mote in the eye, or in heaven's eye, falling from time to time with a swoop and a sound as if the heavens were rent, torn at last to very rags and tatters, and yet a seamless cope remained; small imps that fill the air and lay their eggs on the ground on bare sand or rocks on the tops of hills, where few have found them; graceful and slender like ripples caught up from the pond, as leaves are…†   (source)
  • Now by wan night there came, There strode in the shade-goer; slept there the shooters, They who that horn-house should be a-holding, All men but one man: to men was that known, That them indeed might not, since will'd not the Maker, The scather unceasing drag off 'neath the shadow; But he ever watching in wrath 'gainst the wroth one Mood-swollen abided the battle-mote ever.†   (source)
  • "I have seen several of such pictures," said I. "Well," said Hammond, "our villages are something like the best of such places, with the church or mote-house of the neighbours for their chief building.†   (source)
  • Well, at the next ordinary meeting of the neighbours, or Mote, as we call it, according to the ancient tongue of the times before bureaucracy, a neighbour proposes the change, and of course, if everybody agrees, there is an end of discussion, except about details.†   (source)
  • Equally, if no one backs the proposer,—'seconds him,' it used to be called—the matter drops for the time being; a thing not likely to happen amongst reasonable men, however, as the proposer is sure to have talked it over with others before the Mote.†   (source)
  • …few of the neighbours disagree to it, if they think that the beastly iron bridge will serve a little longer and they don't want to be bothered with building a new one just then, they don't count heads that time, but put off the formal discussion to the next Mote; and meantime arguments pro and con are flying about, and some get printed, so that everybody knows what is going on; and when the Mote comes together again there is a regular discussion and at last a vote by show of hands.†   (source)
  • I wot full well, said Sir Ector, what it is; it is an holy vessel that is borne by a maiden, and therein is part of the holy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, blessed mote he be.†   (source)
  • And here followeth the noble tale of the Sangreal, that called is the Holy Vessel; and the signification of the blessed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed mote it be, the which was brought into this land by Joseph Aramathie.†   (source)
  • —Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.†   (source)
  • You found his mote; the king your mote did see; But I a beam do find in each of three.†   (source)
  • DEMETRIUS A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which Thisbe, is the better.†   (source)
  • With wilde thunder dint* and fiery leven** * stroke **lightning Mote* thy wicked necke be to-broke.†   (source)
  • A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.†   (source)
  • I wot full well, said Sir Ector, what it is; it is an holy vessel that is borne by a maiden, and therein is part of the holy blood of our Lord Jesu Christ, blessed mote he be.†   (source)
  • So that he 'who sees the mote in another's eye had need to see the beam in his own,' that it be not said of himself, 'the dead woman was frightened at the one with her throat cut;' and your worship knows well that 'the fool knows more in his own house than the wise man in another's.'†   (source)
  • The Saviour of it, "the Lord, their Judge, their Lawgiver, their King, he will save us;" the Salvation, "the Lord shall be to them as a broad mote of swift waters," &c. the condition of their Enemies, "their tacklings are loose, their masts weake, the lame shal take the spoil of them."†   (source)
  • And here followeth the noble tale of the Sangreal, that called is the Holy Vessel; and the signification of the blessed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed mote it be, the which was brought into this land by Joseph Aramathie.†   (source)
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  • The sun had set; no dust motes to follow.†   (source)
  • The way the afternoon light came slantwise in through the window and fell so silently across the hardwood floor, the dust motes floating in it like mist.†   (source)
  • Motes of straw dust hung suspended in the air.†   (source)
  • I looked toward the door, motes of dust settling and spinning in the light streaming in from it.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A haze of dust clouded everything, making the rays of sunshine appear thick and alive, motes dancing like gnats.†   (source)
  • In the daytime, a ray of sunlight shone into the tomb, making all the dust motes she stirred up swirl like falling snow.†   (source)
  • I tried to convince myself that it was an odd trick of light, a mass of dust motes trapped in the setting sun.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Help me to the sofa in the living room, where I watch the dust motes spin in the thin shafts of afternoon light.†   (source)
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  • Sunlight is streaming in through the thin plastic blinds, which have been drawn down over the windows, lighting up dust motes in the room.†   (source)
  • But in those few seconds as it whirled blackly, dancing like negative motes of light, he remembered something from his childhood … fifty years ago, or more.†   (source)
  • A solitary finger of light fell upon it, illuminating motes of golden dust floating in the air.†   (source)
  • LuLing often issued what they considered non sequiturs, as free-floating as dust motes.†   (source)
  • He stared at the cloud of digits flickering like dust motes around the old woman's image.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.†   (source)
  • She can see the dust motes they had kicked up together off the carpet.†   (source)
  • Words, pictures, numbers, facts, graphics, statistics, specks, waves, particles, motes.†   (source)
  • Even the room felt restive: The afternoon sun lit up an atomic flurry of dust motes.†   (source)
  • The lower level of the Institute was full of sunlight and pale dust motes.†   (source)
  • The right, however, as if to make up for this deficiency, seemed preternaturally observant, even prescient, and as he plodded over the courtroom floorboards, advancing with a limp toward Art Moran, motes of light winked through it.†   (source)
  • THE COMPLEXITIES of London's electricity network were such that a few motes of nighttime brightness remained in Saeed and Nadia's locality, at properties on the edges, near where barricades and checkpoints were manned by armed government forces, and in scattered pockets that were for some reason difficult to disconnect, and in the odd building here and there where an enterprising migrant had rigged together a connection to a still-active high-voltage line, risking and in some cases…†   (source)
  • The sun slanted through the dirty attic window, lighting the dust motes dancing in the air.†   (source)
  • Will stopped saying "Oh, no, no, no." He, too, in the last few moments, had thought the same as his father, of the toted corpse, the strewn bone-meal, the mineral-enriched hills of grass…… Now there was only the empty chair and the last particles of mica, the radiant motes of peculiar dirt crusting the straps.†   (source)
  • Music, motes of light: she reached for the keys as well.†   (source)
  • In front of it, I could see the dust motes in the air, the sides the light touched, and the dark sides, distinct and separate.†   (source)
  • Through the beams of light I could see millions of tiny dust motes floating in the air.†   (source)
  • Watching dust motes play in the afternoon light, Hunter drifts off.†   (source)
  • I sat slumped in the front seat with the car headlamps shining across dancing dust motes and light-crazed insects that hovered in the early-morning air.†   (source)
  • I lay back and watched the silent beams of light radiate in the colorful dust motes I had stirred up.†   (source)
  • I remembered our kitchen at Missing and how the dust motes dancing in the morning rays formed their own galaxy.†   (source)
  • Dust motes sparkled in the sudden shaft of sunlight as I opened the stable door.†   (source)
  • The sun was still high, and a beam cleared the rooftops to light the sill of the window and the dust motes floating in the air.†   (source)
  • Richter raised her left hand, and the green and gold cords binding Mum dissipated to fading motes of light.†   (source)
  • His room was flooded with rays of direct sunlight in which numberless motes of dust rose and fell like colorless, microscopic balloons.†   (source)
  • Dust motes shimmer in the cracks of weak sunlight.†   (source)
  • She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake.†   (source)
  • A sparkling galaxy of dust motes swam through the slanting early light, shimmering up and down across the lofty room crowded with its armoires and desks, its gilt sofas and cabinets and chairs.†   (source)
  • The voices blended with the sunlight and the dancing motes, and the sunlight blended with the walls, the yellow maple of the highboy, the covers no longer in a tangle around his knees but drawn up over him and gently tucked in around his shoulders.†   (source)
  • The Rakasha swirled away, dropping the cat form he had assumed, to become a whirlwind of silver motes.†   (source)
  • Dawn swept the last of the stars Of heaven's vault as if they were ash motes.†   (source)
  • Out here, motes danced lazily as summer flies in the running green light of the cracks in the walls.†   (source)
  • The year moved through the cold bright months towards the heat; and, as it advanced the wind drove a rain of fine dust through the house, so that surfaces were gritty to the touch; and spiraling dust-devils rose in the lands below, leaving a shining wreckage of grass and maize husks hanging in the air like motes.†   (source)
  • The wind picked up motes of sand that stung their cheeks and forced them to shield their eyes.†   (source)
  • She stared at dust motes, dancing silently in one direction as though following some dreamy leader.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of ships, thousands, dancing and dying like dust motes in a whirlwind.†   (source)
  • The image flickers slightly as dust motes float through her form.†   (source)
  • The air was full of dancing dust motes; they made a shimmering curtain between the two boys.†   (source)
  • Tiny motes of light swam before Max's eyes; his mouth felt as if it were full of hot sand.†   (source)
  • The surface of the red-hot steel glittered with incandescent motes.†   (source)
  • The lilting voices of the bluebirds flashed through the room like motes of light.†   (source)
  • He found. himself watching dust motes dance in the light.†   (source)
  • Dust motes dance in the weak light, making me sneeze.†   (source)
  • Mark leaned in to see dust motes dancing in the bright bears.†   (source)
  • Dust motes danced in a shaft of pale morning light.†   (source)
  • It is late afternoon, a beautiful blue-blue day, and our house is dank, thick with the sweet smell of rotting Chinese food, the curtains all drawn over, and I begin walking room to room to air it out, pulling back the drapes, scaring the dust motes, and when I reach the darkened den, I stumble over a bag on the floor, and then another and another, like the cartoon cat who walks into a room full of mousetraps.†   (source)
  • With his one hand it would be possible in seconds to squeeze Hatsue's letter into motes of dust and obliterate its message forever.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Dust motes floated in the air as a serving girl filled two green glass cups for Ser Jorah and the widow.†   (source)
  • We memorize a poem about them: In Flanders fields the poppies blow,
    Between the crosses row on row
    That mark our place.
    At eleven o'clock we stand beside our desks in the dust motes of the weak November sunshine for the three minutes of silence, Miss Lumley grim at the front of the room, heads bowed, eyes closed, listening to the hush and the rustle of our own bodies and the booming of the guns in the distance.†   (source)
  • Isabelle held Alec's witchlight in her hand, illuminating the room with a nearly spectral glow, sparking dancing motes of fire from the pendant chandelier.†   (source)
  • Eragon's head rang, and a constellation of throbbing, swirling crimson motes appeared before his eyes as Galbatorix struck him on the cheek with Vrangr's pommel, tearing his skin.†   (source)
  • He couldn't think yet His head was filled with motes and there was a huge, thrumming ache building in it The inside of the stable was silent and dark and exploding with heat The gunslinger stared around himself with huge, floating walleyes.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Carvahall's hay barn glowed white in a cyclone of flames, transforming its precious contents into a fountain of amber motes.†   (source)
  • She imagined she could hear the brush of dust motes against one another as they danced in the window light.†   (source)
  • A fountain of amber motes billowed and swirled as Roran tossed a branch onto the disintegrating coals.†   (source)
  • Max blinked as the golden threads that comprised the mythical sea monster 'dissipated into tiny motes of light.†   (source)
  • Dust motes swam in the beams of colored light slanting down through the leaded glass of the great dome.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until we were outside, where the afternoon sun lit the dust motes in the salty air, that she spoke again.†   (source)
  • "I don't expect you to understand," he said, and for a moment I thought he was talking about the dust motes.†   (source)
  • The dust was so beautiful that I inhaled in shock; the air whistled down my throat, swirling the motes into a vortex.†   (source)
  • I noticed the familiar smell of mildew mixed with sweat and saw again the dust motes floating in the air through the beams of sunlight.†   (source)
  • Sunlight slanted through in a golden, dusty bar, and he watched the interplay of motes and tiny flying things for a moment before going on.†   (source)
  • Roran ducked behind his shield and felt searing heat against his legs and the bare skin of his cheeks as the fireball burned itself out only yards away from the walkway, glowing motes becoming ash that drifted downward: a black, charnel rain fitting only for a funeral.†   (source)
  • The sunlight streamed from the mouth of the hospital, reflecting off the dust motes dancing in the air.†   (source)
  • Velvet curtains sagged across huge glass windows; the velvet was gray-white with dust, and motes of dust danced in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • Faint and far, nothing but a tiny dot (it might have been one of those motes that dance perpetually in front of the eyes, except for its constancy), the gunslinger beheld the man in black, moving up the slopes with deadly progress, a minuscule fly on a huge granite wall.†   (source)
  • Dust motes danced in the air.†   (source)
  • Phoebe was still running, chasing after butterflies, birds, motes of light, the fluttering notes spilling from the radio.†   (source)
  • In it, I could taste the room around me—taste the lovely dust motes, the mix of the stagnant air mingling with the flow of slightly cooler air from the open door.†   (source)
  • One by one, rays of pale gold light streaked across the verdant fields from the east, illuminating the countless motes of dust that drifted through the air.†   (source)
  • The razor blade slid in smooth clean strokes against his skin, sending quivering motes of light against the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Upon first inspection, the light appeared uniform, but the longer Eragon gazed at it, the more details he saw within it: small eddies and currents that coiled and twisted in seemingly random directions, darker motes that barely moved at all, and flurries of bright flashes no larger than the head of a pin that would flare for a moment, then fade back into the underlying field of light.†   (source)
  • To Paul, standing just outside the bright red doors, the music seemed almost visible, moving among the poplar leaves, scattering on the lawn like motes of light.†   (source)
  • Light fell through the long windows and splashed in motes and patterns on the plank floor; it caught the auburn highlights in Phoebe's thin braids as she stood before a big wooden bin, scooping lentils, letting them cascade into jars.†   (source)
  • "When she entered," said Cora, "and took her stand in the center of the floor, a little dog saw who it was and trotted out, and alarm like the vibration from the firebell trembled in the motes of the air, and the crowded room seemed to shake, to totter.†   (source)
  • They were floating like dust motes everywhere I looked.†   (source)
  • The flashing water motes gleamed in the red glare of sunset.†   (source)
  • I began to see motes before my eyes.†   (source)
  • …parlor, and sat around on a few pieces of stuffed horsehair furniture, which had an acid, mummy smell in your parched-out nostrils, or on straight split-bottom chairs, which Old Man Stark and the Boss had fetched in from the kitchen, and the motes of dust swam in the rays of light striking in under the shades on the western windows of the room through the one-time white but now yellowish lace curtains, which looped uncertainly from the rods like fish nets hung up to wait for mending.†   (source)
  • This, while Miss Rosa, not listening, who had got the picture from the first word, perhaps from the name, Charles Bon; the spinster doomed for life at sixteen, sitting beneath this bright glitter of delusion like it was one of those colored electric beams in cabarets and she there for the first time in her life and the beam filled with a substanceless glitter of tinsel motes darting suddenly upon her, halting for a moment then going on.†   (source)
  • She was as lithe and yielding to his sustaining hand as a willow rod—she was bird-swift, more elusive in repose than the dancing water-motes upon her face.†   (source)
  • …it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.†   (source)
  • Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-colored lanterns in the pine.†   (source)
  • PLACE-NAMES: THE NAME Among the rooms which used most commonly to take shape in my mind during my long nights of sleeplessness, there was none that differed more utterly from the rooms at Combray, thickly powdered with the motes of an atmosphere granular, pollenous, edible and instinct with piety, than my room in the Grand Hotel de la Plage, at Balbec, the walls of which, washed with ripolin, contained, like the polished sides of a basin in which the water glows with a blue, lurking…†   (source)
  • She no more observed his presence than that of the dust-motes which his manipulations raised into the sunbeams.†   (source)
  • It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.†   (source)
  • And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.†   (source)
  • "They'll bleat and baa, dona like goats, Gorge down black sheep, and strain at motes, Array their backs in fine black coats, Then seize their negroes by their throats, And choke, for heavenly union.†   (source)
  • She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat, in a cloud of moving dust, and her eyes could only wander from the walls, marked by her father's head, to the table cut and notched by her brothers, where stood the tea-board never thoroughly cleaned, the cups and saucers wiped in streaks, the milk a mixture of motes floating in thin blue, and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even Rebecca's hands had first produced it.†   (source)
  • It is like molten glass cooled but not congealed, and the few motes in it are pure and beautiful like the imperfections in glass.†   (source)
  • Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora's youth; and of the many, never old, who had lived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells had hummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging up within, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves in air, as circles do in water.†   (source)
  • Let him learn that everything in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck, and that what he sows he reaps.†   (source)
  • So I was struggling with an insurmountable difficulty; my brain got heated, my eyes watered over that sheet of paper; its hundred and thirty-two letters seemed to flutter and fly around me like those motes of mingled light and darkness which float in the air around the head when the blood is rushing upwards with undue violence.†   (source)
  • In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably.†   (source)
  • The pigeons were flying about her head with the greatest unconcern, and the face of her aunt was just visible above the floor of the loft, lit by a few stray motes of light, as she stood half-way up the ladder, looking at a spot into which she was not climber enough to venture.†   (source)
  • He was aware of motes and specks of suspicion in the atmosphere of that time; seen through which medium, Christopher Casby was a mere Inn signpost, without any Inn—an invitation to rest and be thankful, when there was no place to put up at, and nothing whatever to be thankful for.†   (source)
  • This evening motes of straw lay around, and other signs of the premises having been in that lawless condition which accompanies the entry of a new tenant.†   (source)
  • Strait was the gate and narrow was the way; far straiter and narrower than the broad high road paved with vain professions and vain repetitions, motes from other men's eyes and liberal delivery of others to the judgment—all cheap materials costing absolutely nothing.†   (source)
  • Such gruel sustains life here, I thought; so, shutting my eyes, and excluding the motes by a skilfully directed undercurrent, I drank to genuine hospitality the heartiest draught I could.†   (source)
  • Other motes there were which showed him as a heavy, selfish, drifting Booby, who, having stumbled, in the course of his unwieldy jostlings against other men, on the discovery that to get through life with ease and credit, he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize the idea and stick to it.†   (source)
  • When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the…†   (source)
  • …anything is professed and practised but the art of life;—to survey the world through a telescope or a microscope, and never with his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread is made, or mechanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured by the monsters that swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar.†   (source)
  • Therewithal the Green Knight rode unto an horn that was green, and it hung upon a thorn, and there he blew three deadly motes, and there came two damosels and armed him lightly.†   (source)
  • …Medley, melee, general encounter, Meiny, retinue, Mickle, much, Minever, ermine, Mischieved, hurt, Mischievous, painful, Miscorr fort, discomfort, Miscreature, unbeliever, Missay, revile,; missaid, Mo, more, More and less, rich and poor, Motes, notes on a horn, Mount~ lance, amount of, extent, Much, great, Naked, unarmed, Namely, especially, Ne, nor, Near-hand, nearly,; near, Needly, needs, on your own compulsion, Nesh, soft, tender, Nigh-hand, nearly, Nill, will not, Nilt, will…†   (source)
  • I cast a look up at my slit window, where the dust motes were going mad in the golden light.†   (source)
  • Shimmering motes disturbed by his entry swirled upward into the bar of sunlight like dust raised from the breaking of a tomb.†   (source)
  • Up in the hayloft, just under the roof, the light was even better, striping the piled hay with yellow bars and lighting the drifting dust motes like showers of gold dust.†   (source)
  • Dust motes whirled and slanted.†   (source)
  • A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms.†   (source)
  • Therewithal the Green Knight rode unto an horn that was green, and it hung upon a thorn, and there he blew three deadly motes, and there came two damosels and armed him lightly.†   (source)
  • …opinion, as I read; I speak of many hundred years ago; But now can no man see none elves mo', For now the great charity and prayeres Of limitours,* and other holy freres, *begging friars <2> That search every land and ev'ry stream As thick as motes in the sunne-beam, Blessing halls, chambers, kitchenes, and bowers, Cities and burghes, castles high and towers, Thorpes* and barnes, shepens** and dairies, *villages <3> **stables This makes that there be now no faeries: For *there as* wont…†   (source)
  • Go on, boy, and don't mind; for so long as I fill my pouch, no matter if I show as many inaccuracies as there are motes in a sunbeam."†   (source)
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