soap-bubbles

Wholly separate soap-bubbles of literary content, in fact, bobbing about autonomously with a continent's-worth of space in between, probably filled with wolves and pine trees.

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

The tank of soapsuds, and the air-pumps to inflate the bubbles, were out of sight beneath, so that when the bubbles began to grow upon the floor of the platform it really seemed like magic to the people of Oz, who knew nothing about even the common soap-bubbles that our children blow with a penny clay pipe and a basin of soap-and-water.

Love Letters 2010

He had invented a machine to blow huge soap-bubbles, as big as balloons, and this machine was hidden under the platform so that only the rim of the big clay pipe to produce the bubbles showed above the flooring.

Love Letters 2010

Usually, soap-bubbles are frail and burst easily, lasting only a few moments as they float in the air; but the Wizard added a sort of glue to his soapsuds, which made his bubbles tough; and, as the glue dried rapidly when exposed to the air, the Wizard's bubbles were strong enough to float for hours without breaking.

Love Letters 2010

This bubble-gun fires chicken-flavored soap-bubbles, which apparently drive dogs crazy.

Chicken Flavored Bubbles (For Your Dog) | Impact Lab 2007

For is not the aim of definitely determining the individualities of the next generation a much higher and nobler aim than that other, with its exuberant sensations and transcendental soap-bubbles?

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

Dunstable to blow soap-bubbles on scientific principles.

Framley Parsonage 2004

When opened, the cellular tissue on the surface of the body beneath the skin is seen to be injected with air, as if a quantity of soap-bubbles were scattered over it, or a dishonest, awkward butcher had been trying to make it look fat.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

If during a warm day we look either at the shadow of any object cast on a bank, or over a level plain at a distant landmark, the effect of an ascending current of heated air is almost always evident: such upward currents, it has been remarked, are also shown by the ascent of soap-bubbles, which will not rise in an indoors room.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The people who had lost all their importance, whom we scattered with our breath like soap-bubbles, will to-morrow resume their density; we shall have to try afresh to settle down to work which this evening had ceased to have any significance.

Within a Budding Grove 2003