palpabilities

There would always be a sufficient proportion of unborn fools left who would prefer the palpabilities of bodily form to the insubstantialities of pre-natal existence.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

Their facts are forever lost to us, their palpabilities we can never reach.

North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852 1861

At death, or metamorphosis, these creatures, enjoying the ultimate life — immortality — and cognizant of all secrets but the one, act all things and pass everywhere by mere volition: — indwelling, not the stars, which to us seem the sole palpabilities, and for the accommodation of which we blindly deem space created — but that

Tales. 1845

The air is full of smells and sounds and palpabilities deriving directly from the place and stretching way back into the place’s history.

My New Orleans Rosemary James 2006

The air is full of smells and sounds and palpabilities deriving directly from the place and stretching way back into the place’s history.

My New Orleans Rosemary James 2006