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Updated: September 16, 2025
His force, fit for action, experienced the impatience, the indignation, almost the despair of his vitality arrested, bound, stilled, progressively worn down, frittered away by Time; by that force blind and insensible, which seems inert and yet uses one's life up by its imperceptible action, dropping minute after minute on one's living heart like drops of water wearing down a stone.
After an imperceptible moment of hesitation, he called to one of his deaf-mute slaves and made him understand by signs that he wanted forty wax tablets prepared and brought hither with forty stylets wherewith to write. Then he cheerily bade his guests once more to eat and drink and to make merry.
By imperceptible degrees, it became a hopeless consciousness of all that I had lost love, friendship, interest; of all that had been shattered my first trust, my first affection, the whole airy castle of my life; of all that remained a ruined blank and waste, lying wide around me, unbroken, to the dark horizon. If my grief were selfish, I did not know it to be so.
The whole crushing mass of this mountain, of this block of limestone, into which we have crawled through relatively imperceptible holes, like white ants or larvae, seems to weigh upon our chest. And these figures too, inscribed on every side, and this mystery of the hieroglyphs and the symbols, cause a growing uneasiness.
If a bird flew over their heads, they dared not fire a gun lest its report should be heard, so great was their fear of possible arrest. As their weakness increased, the downward rush of the current seemed to gather strength; there were times when their progress was almost imperceptible.
Have you read history and observed the inexorable? I doubt it. What is progress? A series of almost imperceptible steps." "Which capitalism has always obstructed," flung back Karlov. "Which capitalism has always made possible. Curb it, yes; but abolish it, as you have done in unhappy Russia! Why do you starve there?
We glided with an imperceptible motion down the stream, expecting as we proceeded to behold the magnificent ruins of which we had heard so much. But, alas! village succeeded village, town followed town, and yet not a single turret made its appearance.
The only reward that he expects is that he be allowed to see you one or two times before he dies of old age, or you are seated on a throne." With an impatient gesture, and an almost imperceptible stamp of her little foot, she said: "Please don't talk that way.
This bird, which is common in the Western States, is said to sing melodiously night and day. Wilson remarks of this species, "They are eminently distinguished by the loudness, sweetness, and expressive vivacity of their notes, which begin very high and clear, falling with an almost imperceptible gradation, till they are scarcely articulated.
Anne, who was seated some distance from the table could not even hear his voice, but Lady Hunsdon received such as he ventured upon with so much empressement, that he manifestly rose in courage; in a few moments he was extending his attention to Lady Mary Denbigh, who leaned forward with an exalted expression shaded by ringlets, raising her imperceptible bosom with an eloquent sigh.
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