All 4 Uses of
mote
in
The Gunslinger
- 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.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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.†
Chpt 2
- The gunslinger looked at the depersonalized mote doing its faraway acrobatics, feeling nothing but a premonition of sorrow.†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(mote) a tiny piece of anything