No provision is made to include the loss by wear, which, though imperceptible at the moment, accumulates in process of time to a large amount.
Passing by imperceptible gradations from one form to another, it will be seen to achieve the strangest metamorphoses.
We pass from the pun, by imperceptible stages, to the true play upon words.
The art of the caricaturist consists in detecting this, at times, imperceptible tendency, and in rendering it visible to all eyes by magnifying it.
The above illustration deals purely with space relations, for such relations are easily grasped; but certain distortions in time relations are no less absolutely imperceptible and unprovable.
These insults irritated Pearson's temper for the moment; they entered also into his heart, and became imperceptible but powerful workers toward an end which his most secret thought had not yet whispered.
By imperceptible degrees, he had become known among the people.
Nothing can ever change them but the unconscious and imperceptible movement of the mores.
There also the public rites at festivals passed by imperceptible steps into dramatic representations with dogmatic meaning or magical significance.
Moral laws are already in existence, and mankind has been and is merely re-discovering them: this elucidation appears to be unimportant and imperceptible to one who has no need of moral law, and who does not desire to live by it.
The elucidation is imperceptible in the same way as the difference between a sharp knife and a blunt one is imperceptible.
It seems not unreasonable to attribute some portion of the same subtle power to the planets and even to the stars, though with effects rendered imperceptible by distance.
A minute force becomes the modulator of a much greater force, and thus from imperceptible becomes conspicuous.
The air was balmy; the lilacs, the citron, the jasmine, and the honeysuckle intermingled their perfumes, which the almost imperceptible breath of the north wind spread in little waves to the four corners of the terrace.
As for Gilbert, he had eyes only for a little black spot which he noticed for the first time upon the uniformly pale complexion of Stephane: it was like an almost imperceptible fly, under the left corner of his mouth.
By an almost imperceptible motion the crocodile approached; but the mias, although he appeared to be only intent on quenching his thirst, had evidently a corner of his eye resting on the seemingly harmless log.
These invisible agents or forces together with the imperceptible particles of matter make up the subtle states of the phenomenal universe.
All perceptible phenomena are but the various expressions of different forces which act as invisible agents upon the subtle and imperceptible forms of matter.
By what effort of energy, by what imperceptiblemovements he succeeded in dragging himself to the spot he was never able exactly to realize.
The mask made a imperceptiblegesture of approbation, and went off in search of Lucien.
The coolest rest, the calmest nights, taking the place of crushing fatigue and the most torturing agitation, gave her low fever, in which the common symptoms were imperceptible to the nursing Sister's eye or finger.
His opera-glass, flitting from stall to stall, stopped only at the empty ones; he would then bow, or make an almost imperceptiblesign with the ends of his delicately gloved fingers.
What I have described is continually going on during flight, but in a well-designed aeroplane such stabilizing movements are, most of the time, so slight as to be imperceptible to the pilot.
These stabilizing movements are taking place all the time, even though imperceptible to the pilot.
Shears gave him an imperceptiblenod and whispered: "Where is the blue diamond?
An imperceptible sound, coming from the other side of the door, had, as it were, grazed the silence.
He gave an imperceptible smile before completing his phrase.
Her face was whiter than Million's, and her lips were an almostimperceptible line across it!
That softly curved, white-skinned, blue-veined and bare arm could have been his to hold for a nearer inspection of that imperceptible wound if he had chosen.
Mengs draws his conclusion from the difference between Correggio's first and second style, which he considers less as the imperceptible progress of art than as the immediate effect of the works of Raphael and Michel Agnolo.
The latter gave an imperceptible nod and with a murmured excuse to Felice followed Jerry.
Her light tone was tinged with malice as she administered one of those subtle female digs commonly imperceptible to the male intelligence.
Once before, on a similar occasion, he had been in like manner aroused from sleep just before the commencement of an earthquake, probably by a feeble and ordinarily imperceptible agitation of the soil.
The walls of the chest exhibited no movement, but the lateral surfaces of the abdomen presented a slow and almost imperceptible oscillation.
