This is true both of the visible contacts affecting the nociceptors and of the invisible contacts by those intangible forces which affect the distance ceptors.
The idea that what he calls "intangible property" should be taxed is quite prevalent among the ignorant and a perfect hobby with the half-educated.
A correspondent calls my attention to the recommendation of a commission appointed by the governor of Massachusetts, to the effect that "all taxes on intangible property be abolished.
The light had gone entirely, and he was struggling to free himself from an intangible enemy or friend; a thing that had, unknown to himself, evolved during those isolated years among the pines, and was restraining his lower nature now.
There had been an intangible link that only death could sever.
This lady was slight and frail, with hair as white as snow, and about her there hung an intangible something which gave me the impression that she was a woman who had suffered much.
Our grasp of more urbane life is feeble; most attempts to assemble it in our pictures are failures, possibly because it is too transitory, too intangible in its nature with us, to be truthfully represented as really existent.
A faint, dry odour rose from the loosened papers--the intangiblescent that indicates the past.
Tasteless and intangible was the kiss that was prematurely discharged in midair and never, never came.
Neither they nor any other gin-fizz effervescence of intangible ephemera.
Now they are intangible as the man in the moon, ineffable as the man in the honeymoon.
How much more baffling and intangible this new forest, and how deeply serious a business now for those who were still thoughtlessly and selfishly juggling with human affairs.
They were asking for my help, but they were, in some strange, intangible way, most desperately remote.
The day before yesterday, men brought the Bible and medicine to the blacks, and received in exchange their intangible souls.
I wondered if they were not quite odorless, intangible to the ants, invisible guests which lived close to them, going where, doing what they willed, yet never perceived by the thousands of inhabitants.
You would feel anIntangible Something," she says, "drawing you toward him.
That is theIntangible Something working on you, she says.
Dreams are but intangible things, and this was a confused one, with only the face of Hockley grinning at me from out of it, and the knowledge in my own mind that I held a weapon of some sort gripped in my right hand.
So intangiblehad been my dreams of her at all times, that there was less of a shock to me in finding her grown older than I should have thought possible.
Yet somewhere a ghost engine was warming up, preparing a ghost ship for an intangible take-off into nothingness.
They've turned us in on ourselves, and put a drain on our intangible resources as men and as a crew.
How and by what means may the school bring about a more intelligent choice of tangible and intangible things?
As we look, we realize that desires for intangible things may be as acute as for tangible ones, and that the gratification of these desires produces equal satisfaction.
Friendship between man and man is no vague, intangible thing whose only reality is its name.
This thought, beautiful and true as it is, would be too intangible and too great a tax upon faith, unless man had some more or less definite and immediate recognition of his heavenward appeals.
As the destruction of the pot or any other hollow vessel, does not destroy the subtile air, which is contained in the same; so the dissolution of the body, does not dissolve the embodied and intangible soul.
Whether you think him, as sleeping or rising, walking or sitting; or whether conceive him touching or intangible contact with any thing, or quite unconnected and aloof from every thing about him.
The gross is no reality, and its feelings of pain or pleasure are never real ones, as to touch the intangible soul; for who is so senseless, as not to perceive the wide separation of the soul from the body?
It was real, and yet it came from a source almost as intangible as Cassowary's ship.
The fathers, as far as he was concerned, were as intangible as myths.
He admitted the improbability of her existence, but lost nothing of the persistent intangible hope that drove him.
He held his love as a thing aloof, and, as such, intangible because of the living death she believed she lived, it had no warmth and intimacy for them.
To make a name of this heretofore intangible man, to give him an identity apart from the crowd, to be able to recognize him--that for Shefford would be fatal.
He missed Hugh, and an intangible something about the will made him uncomfortable; but they would be rich in time and he could simply oversee the business, and life would be more satisfactory.
The week had been an uncomfortable one in both tangible and intangible ways.
It was an intangible thing upon which she could not remark and yet could not fail to recognize.
All that she said, and more that she implied enmeshed Rose like folds of an invisible intangible net.
All these intangibleessences and powers are no apparent reason why I should do so foolish a thing--but they have influenced me.
