" Similarly, Robert Boyle speaks of a fine powder as "alcohol"; and, so late as the middle of the last century, the English lexicographer, Nathan Bailey, defines "alcohol" as "the pure substance of anything separated from the more gross, a very fine and impalpable powder, or a very pure, well-rectified spirit."

"Amid the woods, the scene of flitting soulsamid the crack and crash and yelling soundsthe impalpable perfume of the woodsand yet the pungent, stifling smokethe radiance of the moon, looking from heaven at intervals so placidthe sky so heavenlythe clear-obscure up there, those buoyant upper oceansa few large, placid stars beyond, coming silently and languidly out, and then disappearingthe melancholy, draperied night above, around.

Come and see!and yet you will not see; facts, and the reasons of them, will be as impalpable to you there as here, unless you can again obey your Novum Organum.' 'How then?' 'By renouncing all your idolsthe idols of the race and of the market, of the study and of the theatre.

An impalpable veil had come between them, a subtle dissonance in point of view.

Stars may be quenched, the mountains crumble, the earth finally wear away its diamond axis; but we two, we alone are immortal, for the impalpable lives forever!

" The poems were all endeavours to capture some high, impalpable mood in a net of obscure images.

Far different in character is Epipsychidion (1821), a rhapsody celebrating Platonic love, the most impalpable, and so one of the most characteristic, of all Shelley's works.

" Many of his efforts to describe in verse this democracy and this ideal beauty are impalpable and obscure.

Of course it has other aspects, higher in essence and more impalpable in quality, but it is this first aspect I shall deal with, because I am not now speaking of religion as a purely spiritual power but only of its quality as the great coordinator of human action, the power that establishes a right ratio of values and gives the capacity for right control.

For it is true, I love beautiful things; I love them so passionately that at times I wish for impossibilities, gowns woven of sunbeams, impalpable veils made of the blue of heaven.

Under her feet the impalpable dust of a city turned to gray slime which clung to her shoes.

She sat looking down at the moist earth on the trowel she held, drying visibly in the hot sun, turning to dust, and falling away in a crumbling, impalpable powder.

It clutched at the trees with long impalpable arms, it rose higher and higher, chilling the air; and white shapes moved away into the jungle as though the ghosts of shipwrecked mariners were searching stealthily in the darkness for the spirits of evil that long ago had wrecked them on the Yann.

With only a few grains of this substance great blocks of rock were reduced to impalpable dust!"

A few grains of this explosive shattered the rocky mass and reduced it to almost impalpable powder that one's breath could disperse as easily as vapor.

"I think I understand," he said, and wrestled with the impalpable.

The dangerous and impalpable flush of the gamester was on her face, and behind it burned a glow and radiance.

Much of this was of course ground to impalpable dust by the violence of the discharge, and was carried up to a height of many miles.

He had no faith in your slow, impalpable cures: all reforms were to be accomplished by a wrench, from the abolition of slavery to the pulling of a tooth.

Now we see how that impalpable something has been produced which we call the "Spirit of the Age,"that peculiar atmosphere in which we live, which fills the lungs of the human spirit, and gives vitality and character to all that men at present think and say and feel and do.

It is invisible, impalpable, unknown.

The "jolly times" on the Hill were a kind of Elf-land to them, sometimes patent and free, sometimes shrouded in the impalpable and impassable mist that shuts in the fairy region when it wills to be by itself for a time.

I know that I am dominant of the physical creation on this earth, but at those times I feel that these great and mighty essences, whose world in which they live and move, envelopes ours and us, and to whom our matter is as impalpable airI know that they and we, theirs and ours, are involved in higher and yet higher conditions and elements, that in some mysterious way we mutually and blindly contribute and minister to each other.

Taken as a whole, there is something impalpable and immaterial about him, which I will not venture to call effeminate, but which is scarcely manly.

The footprints of spring became vague and indefinite, and were finally lost in the impalpable dust of the summer highway.