Softly, impalpably, with both the graciousness of a host and the determinedness of an intruder who will not be gainsaid, the first rays of morning light filtered into the mist.

" The train crept on toward the hour of the Eternal Painter's riot and toward Little Rivers, while the patch of green was softly, impalpably growing, growing, until the crisscross breaks of the streets developed and Jack could identify the Doge's and other bungalows.

Over allover men, decks, rope-coilsin the cabin, in the engine-roombetween skylight leaveson every shelf, in every crannylay a purplish ash or dust, very impalpably fine.

Nowhere else did the evening gray and sombre into the mysterious night impalpably as here.

The work of destruction is all the more perturbing to timorous spirits, and more harassing even to doughtier spirits, for being done impalpably, indirectly, almost silently and as if by unseen hands.

It is within us, rising up in the heart where it was least expected, and working its way, though not in secret, yet so subtly and impalpably, as hardly to admit of precaution or encounter on any ordinary human rules of opposition.

Shaving of metal peel off, as other edges turn, so impalpably fine that five thousand must be laid side by side to make an inch.