I never pass one without taking out my mental sketch-book and jotting it down as a vignette in the insubstantial record of my ride.
Out of the issues of rivalry and profit which beset the King's company of players at the Globe and the Blackfriars, how came this "insubstantial pageant"?
There is evidently some machinery--it is the insubstantial pageant that calls forth Prospero's famous lines.
It was broken; no, it was tooinsubstantial for breaking.
By myself I felt at once strangely heavy as a mountain and insubstantial as the shadow thereof.
All things had turned to ghosts; the whole mass of the world was insubstantial vapor, surrounding the solitary spark in his mind, whose burning point he could remember, for it burnt no more.
So feeble and insubstantial did he feel himself that he repeated the word aloud.
But all the time that I was feasting on these insubstantial glories, my meat was being cut down and my coat hung ever more loosely over my ribs.
They are spurious and insubstantial departures, and do not properly come within the purview of the stricter theory.
Within the radius of the flickering light the shadows on the walls and ceiling grew more weird and grotesque, each gust of air creating insubstantial forms and shapes as monstrous as the fancies of a madman's brain.
Insubstantial as lace-work against the green background of the garden, it hung rather than stood between its brick pillars, its edges fretted and fringed with rust, consumed in a delicate decay.
A monstrous hotel rose before them, its masonry pale, insubstantial in the twilight, a delicate framework for its piled and serried squares of light.
She could not say how or at what moment the incredible thing happened, but of a sudden the world she looked at became luminous and insubstantial and divinely still.
They are insubstantial creatures," said Foster, "yet they can endure the vacuum of space.
Notice, too, beyond the wall the familiar flat and insubstantial trees, with their foliage that would serve as well for the ground at the foot of the steps.
The world is to him but an insubstantial pageant that shall dissolve and fade, leaving not the trace of the thinnest cloud behind.
And the thing she dreaded was still waiting a little way beyond the garden, beyond the insubstantial walls; it was looking for her, crying after her, it stretched out its arms to draw her from her sleep.
Almost discernible behind the transparent insubstantial walls of sleep, it waited to break through them and invade her dream.
To some, the world Is a bleak desert, parched with blinding sand, With here and there a mirage, fair to view, But insubstantial as the visions born Of Folly and Despair.
Having no definitive values, one is nothing, insubstantial and devoid of character.
The need to search for her lost flame seized her mind, yet, because she knew not what she truly sought, her search would continue forever, leaving behind her an insubstantial and endless heap of charred ashes.
PAGE 1 Chapter 1 Early Years "Having no definite values, one is nothing, insubstantial and devoid of character.
The news was more than a slap in the face, it seared the heart and scorched the emotions, for trust and love were suddenly, unexplainably returned as if they were mere misfits, insubstantial and bereft of meaning.
How far above all modern armament is his prophylactic against his insubstantial fellow-lodger!
Insubstantial and deceptive as was this inner world of his, to him it must have been much more real than the world of flitting physical shapes about him.
Gently disparting the bracken, and, herself almost as insubstantial and soundless as a shadow, with one swift glance around her, she vanished into the darkness that involved the columnar pine-glades.
It says: "Certainly the Constitution does not require oral argument in all cases where only insubstantial or frivolous questions of law, or indeed even substantial ones, are raised.
