All 20 Uses of
mote
in
Dune
- He was a mote caught in the glare of the noon sun.†
Book 2 *
- 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.†
Book 2
- She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings.†
Book 2
- She was the mote, yet not the mote.†
Book 2
- She was the mote, yet not the mote.†
Book 2
- She stared at the frozen expressions around her, seeing a dust mote above Chani's head, stopped there.†
Book 2
- 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.†
Book 2
- With her psychokinesthetic probing, she moved into it, shifted an oxygen mote, allowed another carbon mote to link, reattached a linkage of oxygen …. hydrogen.†
Book 2
- With her psychokinesthetic probing, she moved into it, shifted an oxygen mote, allowed another carbon mote to link, reattached a linkage of oxygen …. hydrogen.†
Book 2
- And there was another psychokinesthetic mote within her awareness!†
Book 2
- Jessica tried to reject it, but the mote swept closer …. closer.†
Book 2
- Jessica sensed a forced shift in the mutual awareness, saw another mote-presence with the inward eye.†
Book 2
- The other mote darted wildly here, there, circling.†
Book 2
- The other whirling mote swept near, and Jessica compelled herself to touch it.†
Book 2
- The other mote lay quiescent against her.†
Book 2
- The other mote faded back into pre-birth awareness as Jessica watched it.†
Book 2
- Jessica sensed the daughter-mote still touching her inner awareness, probed it without response.†
Book 2
- 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.†
Book 2
- 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.†
Book 2
- A tiny outflowing of love-comfort, like a reflection of what she had poured into it, came from the other mote.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(mote) a tiny piece of anything