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  • Then the pup closed its eyes and gave a last, infinitesimal sigh.†  (source)
  • Alone, staring into the void, I became an infinitesimal dot of existence floating by itself in the universe.†  (source)
  • I turned it, catching the light on the infinitesimal beads of venom that crowned each feathered tooth.†  (source)
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  • As if, inside Werner's head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.†  (source)
  • His eyes seemed to narrow infinitesimally.†  (source)
  • Arriving at infinitesimals, mathematics, the most exact of sciences, abandons the process of analysis and enters on the new process of the integration of unknown, infinitely small, quantities.†  (source)
  • Why shouldn't our mission be infinitesimal?†  (source)
  • His smile gets infinitesimally narrower, and he hesitates for a moment.†  (source)
  • Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.†  (source)
  • It happened in a fraction of a second: in the infinitesimal pause before Dumbledore said 'three', Harry looked up at him — they were very close together — and Dumbledore's clear blue gaze moved from the Portkey to Harry's face.†  (source)
  • If he had been his old self, if the system hadn't crashed, he would have seen the blur of the blade as it came around, heard the infinitesimally small whistle of it cutting through the air.†  (source)
  • O little shells, so curious-convolute, so limpid-cold and voiceless, Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held, Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far, Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies, Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding, Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable, Infinitesimals out of my life, and many a life, (For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,) These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry, Wash'd on America's shores?†  (source)
  • Whatever was inside was infinitesimal.†  (source)
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