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  • I had the same room which Finny and I had shared during the summer, but across the hall, in the large suite where Leper Lepellier had dreamed his way through July and August amid sunshine and dust motes and windows through which the ivy had reached tentatively into the room, here Brinker Hadley had established his headquarters.  (source)
  • Dancing for him, light as a dust mote.†  (source)
  • Objects move as the boys invisibly mote past them.†  (source)
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  • The sun had set; no dust motes to follow.†  (source)
  • At that word, Thomas's breath caught in his throat like a mote of dust.†  (source)
  • I unlocked my office, stepped into the close-smelling, dust-moted air.†  (source)
    moted = filled with tiny pieces of something such as dust
  • I looked toward the door, motes of dust settling and spinning in the light streaming in from it.†  (source)
  • The lamp in the rocks on the side of the hill was little more than a mote of light and after a while they walked back.†  (source)
  • Without those moted rays, the inside of the hollow mountain was velvety black.†  (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)
  • The clothes in the closet, which were even then out of date—too narrow and high for the postwar "New Look"—intoxicated us with a sense of possibility, not for us, but for our mother, lost possibilities to be sure, but somehow still present when we entered the closet, closed the door, and sat down cross-legged in the mote-filled sunshine of the oval window.†  (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)
  • 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)
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