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motes
1. Sooty dust motes took to the air as
2. He knew this imaging did not illuminate the dust motes that were much more than twenty light minutes from the ship, all dots farther than that were in their own light
3. He tried to look at the black instead of the dust motes and he saw a rhythm in it, something like the billow of clouds or maybe rough building stone with the points of light being the mortar between them
4. Afternoon light flowed through the cracked and missing windows, and dust motes floated in the air
5. ” I’d listen to the drone of blowflies, watch dust motes, inhale Mother’s eau de violet, and join in the singing – but only if it was cold and wet
6. It literally poured from me and floated in the air, sparkles of glittering motes that formed a human shaped figure that dropped to the ground
7. Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears
8. Silence hung like motes in the air
9. They will see motes in other men's families, and overlook beams in their own
10. motes that of the society more effectually than when
11. inaccuracies and absurdities, and, for all that, they have a successful run, and are listened to not only with applause, but with admiration and all the rest of it? Go on, boy, and don't mind; for so long as I fill my pouch, no matter if I show as many inaccuracies as there are motes in a sunbeam
12. I see that there is dust in the air that will eventually settle onto the floor to be swept out the door as a nuisance, but before that, for one brilliant moment I see the dust motes catch sunlight and sparkle and dance like stardust
13. I continue to search everywhere in vain, hoping it will appear like dust motes illuminated by sudden light
14. Motes of birds hung motionless, white
15. Despite its wide front window, the shop was dark, and the light that did come in only glittered on the dust motes
16. And I, thrown upward, floated in my life-suit above the wreckage, surrounded by mirages, dreams, motes, shadows, stars
17. And while my parents slept unaware, and while our house was asleep, all the automatic bakers and servers and robot cleaners in an electric slumber, I stared down upon brilliant motes of meteor dust, comet tail, and loam from far Jupiter glistening like worlds themselves which drew me down the tube a billion miles into space, at terrific accelerations
18. She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat, in a cloud of moving dust, and her eyes could only wander from the walls, marked by her father’s head, to the table cut and notched by her brothers, where stood the tea-board never thoroughly cleaned, the cups and saucers wiped in streaks, the milk a mixture of motes floating in thin blue, and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even Rebecca’s hands had first produced it
19. She sat in a blaze of oppressive heat, in a cloud of moving dust, and her eyes could only wander from the walls, marked by her father's head, to the table cut and notched by her brothers, where stood the tea-board never thoroughly cleaned, the cups and saucers wiped in streaks, the milk a mixture of motes floating in thin blue, and the bread and butter growing every minute more greasy than even Rebecca's hands had first produced it
20. It is like molten glass cooled but not congealed, and the few motes in it are pure and beautiful like the imperfections in glass
21. Such gruel sustains life here, I thought; so, shutting my eyes, and excluding the motes by a skilfully directed undercurrent, I drank to genuine hospitality the heartiest draught I could
22. When compelled to rise they would sometimes circle round and round and over the pond at a considerable height, from which they could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black motes in the sky; and, when I thought they had gone off thither long since, they would settle down by a slanting flight of a quarter of a mile on to a distant part which was left free; but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do
23. The rotund innkeeper slumbered peacefully in front of his great hearth, and small patches of November sunshine lay on the floor, while merry November motes danced in the yellow beams
24. Johan, the player’s boy, had said that Mistress Judith was no beauty; but no one in all England would have agreed with that verdict had they seen her lightly poised on the threshold of the old inn, the gray plumes of her high crowned riding hat nodding somewhat familiarly to the motes in the sunshine
