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infinitesimal
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  • They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history.†  (source)
  • As if, inside Werner's head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.†  (source)
  • Everything is due to infinitesimal changes that have taken effect over countless generations.†  (source)
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  • Why shouldn't our mission be infinitesimal?†  (source)
  • His smile gets infinitesimally narrower, and he hesitates for a moment.†  (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)
  • Then, an infinitesimal veering of the canoe, and the line of his body would break, the soaring arms collapse, up shoot an uncontrollable leg, and Phineas would tumble into the water, roaring with rage.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Father, his jeweler's glass in his eye, was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an infinitesimal part from the array before them on the workbench.†  (source)
  • Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally.†  (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)
  • I see several women I recognize, exchange with them the infinitesimal nods with which we show each other we are known, at least to someone, we still exist.†  (source)
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