This stone, after being pounded and washed, is reduced to an impalpable powder.
The finest mineral is selected, heated to a dull red heat, and quenched in water; it is thus rendered friable, and is ground down into an impalpable powder.
And afterwards I would spend long hours in recalling and analyzing those nothings, questioning their nothingness, making out of things too submerged and impalpable for the rough drags of recollection, promises and indications.
The second and less placable class of "Englishmen in the West Indies," whose final departure our author would have us to believe would complete the catastrophe to progress in the British Antilles, is very impalpable indeed.
As with Joan of Arc and many others, so with this woman; the inner ear could hear voices from some source impalpable by external senses.
The impalpable barrier hung like a mist about his wits.
Yet the impalpable intercourse, compact of make-believe and yearnings, was, at its sweetest, no safe substitute for the human companionships that were lacking in the life of Louise.
The influence of the hot winds from the Sahara has been observed in vessels traversing the Atlantic at a distance of upwards of 1100 geographical miles from the African shores, by the coating of impalpable dust upon the sails.
Impalpable Mud produced by the Grinding Action of Glaciers.
Some beds consist of an impalpable mud, like putty, apparently derived from the grinding down of felspar, and resembling the mud produced by the grinding action of modern glaciers.
It was a world of delicate and impalpable happiness where people always understood each other without speech, responding to a touch of a hand, a note of music, the sunlight on the snow-capped mountains, or the song of a bird.
To the end it remained an impalpable grievance with her that she made no impression upon her dear friend's husband.
But all we could find was a sort of ridge of impalpable dust, which gave out a strange dead odour.
Why should not I break this mysterious link, impalpable yet strong?
It was as a thin, almost impalpable mist, that can scarcely be seen, yet that alters all the features in a landscape ever so faintly.
Lifted bodily by that impalpable hawser of force and cruelly wrenched and twisted by its enormous couple of angular momentum, the hexan works came up out of the ground as a waterpipe comes up in the teeth of a power shovel.
There would be a brief flash of dull red, a still briefer flare of incandescence, and the impalpable magnets would leap out to seize another of the doomed globes.
Quit the impalpable form thou didst wear in the world of thine own, and be flesh, and blood, and bones, and marrow, in ours.
The atmosphere grew hazy with impalpable dust; and the stars were wholly obscured.
Nobody could call Mr Arnold a Philistine or one insensible to finesse, grace, sehnsucht, the impalpable and intangible charm of melancholy and of thought.
A large flat stone, with another smaller one to rub over it, was the mill for grinding corn; and we were astonished to see how quickly our hostess reduced the grains to an impalpable meal.
They have a black, rarely reddish, vitreous, or impalpable base, approaching obsidian, with a specific gravity of 2.
When we struck the Overland Route, we found its roadway a mass of impalpable dust, black and stifling.
For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth, Any more than such are to religion.
He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured.
He felt very pleased, and followed him into the passage, but no sooner had he done so than an impalpable cloud of distrust seemed to settle upon him.
For in thought, delicate shades, impalpable nuances are ever passing.
With this view I tried to acquire knowledge in various ways, but in all of them knowledge was too impalpable for me to get hold of it.
The Earth is but shivered into impalpable smoke by that Doom's-thunderpeal; the Sun misses one of his Planets in Space, and thenceforth there are no eclipses of the Moon.
His shoes were dustless, though everyone else was covered in the fine, impalpable powdery dust of Naples.
The heat of the day came down like animpalpable curtain, making her tired and gasping.
