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The pleasures of animal life are ever present to their minds as the supreme good; and, but for the innumerable invisibilities, they might enjoy their luxurious climate as much as it is possible for man to do.
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Ehomba was not tormented by invisibilities of enigmatic purpose, nor had he eaten anything whose hallucinogenic potentialities he was not reasonably sure of.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Even if they did, it would be hard to do battle with three-foot-long invisibilities.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Even if they did, it would be hard to do battle with three-foot-long invisibilities.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Physics was the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays ...
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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For water sprites, fairies, gnomes, and other invisibilities, who delight in sunshine and warmth, are forced, through the power of the priest's prayers, and the showering of holy water, to take refuge in a hole that is cut in the ice beside
Yule-Tide in Many Lands Mary Poague Pringle 1894
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"You were mighty sarcastic, sure," he observed to Bayne over their cigars in the veranda, for with all the world submerged in the invisibilities of the mists the day's hunt was necessarily called off.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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The sound lured them from their own devious points of search, and a half dozen of the treasure-seekers burst from the invisibilities of the mists as Ozias Crann's pickaxe cleaving the mold struck upon the edge of a small japanned box hidden securely between the rocks, a scant foot below the surface.
A Chilhowee Lily 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Allston labored with the hopeless ineffectiveness of Sisyphus; when we go through a whole gallery of pictures by an American artist in which the backgrounds are slighted as if our midsummer heats had taken away half the artist's life and vigor; when we walk round whole rooms full of sketches, impressions, effects, symphonies, invisibilities, and other apologies for honest work, it would not be strange if it should suggest
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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