My first impression was that it might be the most minutely divided material, the ultimate sediment produced by the disintegration of the land, by rivers and by the action of the sea on exposed coasts, and held in suspension and distributed by ocean currents, and only making itself manifest in places unoccupied by the Globigerina ooze.

No, what caused this disintegration in a usually fairly fluent prattler with the sex was her whole mental attitude.

This was the promise which was lying heavy on the old woman's heart to-night; and, though her reason told her that the way of the flames and the way of the flowers alike led to dust, yet the disintegration by fire seemed to give her a sense of entire destruction such as the more desultory operations of the earth did not give.

of disintegration for vital and enlarging unity?

Look again and again how the rough, dusty boulders and sand of disintegration from the upper ledges wreathe in beauty the next and next below with these wonderful taluses, and how the colors are finer the faster the waste.

The first check to his artistic careerthe 'hanging' incident and its sequelproduced an effect of shock and disintegration out of all proportion to its apparent causeinexplicable indeed to the spectators.