"Intangibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... itself to the new era. So with Salem, precisely. It is the most delightful place to visit for this reason, because it so carefully retains the spirit of the past; and 'The House of the Seven Gables'!" Dr. Holmes smiled, well knowing the intangibility of ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow To the wide waters, touch to corporal things, Intangibility to the viewless void. But state of slavery, pauperhood, and wealth, Freedom, and war, and concord, and all else Which come and go whilst nature stands the same, We're wont, and rightly, to call accidents. Even time ...
— Of The Nature of Things • [Titus Lucretius Carus] Lucretius
... Whenever that look appeared in her wild, bright, deeply black eyes, it invested them with a strange remoteness and intangibility.—HAWTHORNE. ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell |
