Lexicographical Neighbors of Impalpabilities
Literary usage of Impalpabilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"... iron bars of imperial Latin into a limp covering for Longfellow's most impalpable
of impalpabilities, is almost as towering an attempt at intellectual ..."
2. Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells (1900)
"... has yet returned with a passport en règle and properly visé; and he held his
light course through these filmy impalpabilities with a charming sincerity, ..."
3. Melomaniacs by James Huneker (1902)
"... substance, but not upon impalpabilities. Silly sound waves, that are said to
possess color, form, rhythm — in fact, all attributes of the plastic arts. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"From the very character of his profession, dealing as it does with the impalpabilities
of disease, so modified by constitution and habit that pathology ..."
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