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  • Does this mean (eta: ok now grammar police?) i have to start writing a novel now? what about this Impalpable Ash title?

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2006

  • Impalpable black dust far-borne from Dakota covered the inner sills of the closed windows.

    Main Street 2004

  • Impalpable forces grabbed him, and he was shoved at a door that appeared miraculously in the wall, where seconds before had been the palace.

    The Weapon Shops of Isher Van Vogt, A. E. 1951

  • Impalpable powder, coarse sand, rounded, polished, and scratched fragments of every size are mixed together in a homogeneous paste, in which the larger materials are imbedded, to use a homely, but expressive comparison, like raisins and currants in a pudding.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • Impalpable influences seemed fighting the feeble old woman on the lonely hill-top.

    Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

  • Impalpable black dust far-borne from Dakota covered the inner sills of the closed windows.

    Main Street 1920

  • Impalpable black dust far-borne from Dakota covered the inner sills of the closed windows.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • But it is no transfer of our trust from its proper Object; it is but the concentration of our trust in the Unseen and Impalpable One upon His Own Incarnate Son, by which that trust, instead of the distant, unsteady, and too often cold and scarce real thing it otherwise is, acquires a conscious reality, warmth, and power, which makes all things new.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Impalpable Mud produced by the Grinding Action of Glaciers.

    The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

  • Impalpable Mud produced by the Grinding Action of Glaciers.

    The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

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