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1. As of yet, the group of Magi had suffered few losses, due in great part to the fact that they had focused all their efforts on defending themselves while offering only an infinitesimal show of retaliation
2. Did life emerge from man or woman or both? Did it begin with a thought or desire? Did it come from the ovule or the spermatozoid? Everything that exists is made out of an assemblage of infinitesimal particles, some of them called quarks
3. I felt clammy beads of moisture gather on my forehead as I gave the first infinitesimal pull
4. straight, but we should not be so quick to reach firm conclusions within our infinitesimal space-
5. exist? How can propositions apply to infinitesimal slices of time, or do propositions apply
6. “Even those who are in the midst of swearing upon it in Xervia will not notice the infinitesimal fraction of a second during which it was missing
7. Jung describes the collective unconscious as the all controlling deposit of ancestral experiences from untold millions of years, the echo of prehistoric world events to which each century adds an infinitesimal small amount of variation and differentiation
8. in an infinitesimal fraction of a second, to a vibration set up in it by an
9. Wow! What are the infinitesimal chances of finding myself right here on this patch of real estate? I mean, the odds must be virtually zilch
10. poetry of the infinitesimal unexpected possibilities
11. contacted had to be infinitesimal considering the billions on
12. In that finite moment of profound darkness, of infinitesimal blackness, a cold hand clung to my ankle
13. But as I was getting closer to the table and watched Americus to get up to meet me, my determination was dwindling at a rate inversely proportional to the distance, until it became tiny, tiny and infinitesimal
14. “For an infinitesimal amount of time this must have
15. “For the most infinitesimal amount of time, the
16. They accepted this dawn as infinitesimal, something that did not require any special appreciation for it could be repeated indefinitely
17. I myself am loath to run that risk, however infinitesimal it could be
18. I believe everything in space and time is connected by infinitesimal pulses of
19. by infinitesimal pulses of energy that are many millions of times smaller than anything
20. processing takes an infinitesimal 10 ^ -43 of a
21. His greater contribution was probably in the field of mathematics where he defined many area and volumetric relationships between different shapes, introduced infinitesimal mathematics, and defined relationships in mechanics and
22. His mood lifted an infinitesimal bit
23. We were only one infinitesimal piece of its finely-crafted, intricate mechanism
24. In short, all the pleasures in this life, ever since the creation to the end of life on earth, consistute but an infinitesimal part of the bliss experienced when the spirit looks at its Glorious and Bounteous Lord
25. There it is again, and the most infinitesimal of pressures on his back
26. In short, all the pleasures of this life, from the creation of the uniVerse to the end of life on earth, constitute but an infinitesimal part of the bliss that is experienced when the spirit views its Glorious and Bounteous Lord
27. Her body was faultless, classic yet sexy, trained yet feminine, a body that took your breath away, magnetized your stare and made you think of the infinitesimal probability of so much beauty concentrated on one person
28. Through the very little that was visible from my vaguely opened eyes I saw Adi plug an injection and then there was a feeling of infinitesimal sting like a mosquito bite on my arm, folowed by a blackout
29. Nonetheless, the likelihood of detecting the Israeli naval lieutenant who was the object of this massive search was infinitesimal
30. Thus as all vegetation depends on the one-hundredth portion of carbon which the atmosphere contains, so the enormous bony fabric of the elephant is reared from the infinitesimal supply of phosphates in the stacks of foliage which he consumes
31. into all things infinitesimal and infinite in that which I had heard to be named, All That Is
32. She relaxed an infinitesimal amount when she saw I was still in one piece
33. I allowed him an infinitesimal second of enjoyment before I bit down hard on his lower lip
34. " continued Raskolnikov, turning cold and shivering, "and the jewel case Nikolay found behind the door--was that possible? A clue? You miss an infinitesimal line and you can build it into a pyramid of evidence! A fly flew by and saw it! Is it possible?" He felt with sudden loathing how weak, how physically weak he had become
35. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing
36. There was still an infinitesimal part of her that wanted her husband to somehow make it all better
37. Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity
38. The right temporal lobe of the hollow sphere of his cranium came into contact with a solid timber angle where, an infinitesimal but sensible fraction of a second later, a painful sensation was located in consequence of antecedent sensations transmitted and registered
39. As a philosopher he knew that at the termination of any allotted life only an infinitesimal part of any person's desires has been realised
40. My body knew exactly how it felt to stand on that ledge; how the infinitesimal difference between the solid business of living, and the lurch that would end everything could be measured in the smallest of units, in grams, in millimetres, in degrees, and that knowledge made the hairs on my arms prickle and a fine sweat seep through the skin on the back of my neck
41. For an infinitesimal fraction of a second, against the light of two flaring and guttering candles, through a blue, pungent, thin haze which made his eyes smart, he saw the man standing, as he had imagined him, with his back to the door, casting an enormous and distorted shadow upon the wall
42. She spoke with that gentle, infinitesimal inflection of mockery which descended to her from her mother, but later that evening the words came back to me poignantly
43. " continued Raskolnikov, turning cold and shivering, "and the jewel case Nikolay found behind the door—was that possible? A clue? You miss an infinitesimal line and you can build it into a pyramid of evidence! A fly flew by and saw it! Is it possible?" He felt with sudden loathing how weak, how physically weak he had become
44. The odds crashed from remote to infinitesimal when they finally walked through the front door
45. To condemn a powerfully entrenched security such as General Electric preferred in 1933 because it had an infinitesimal bond issue ahead of it, would have been the height of absurdity
46. Of the thousands who “invested” in General Electric in 1929–1930 probably only an infinitesimal number had any idea that they were paying on the basis of about 2½ billions of dollars for the company, of which over two billions represented a premium above the money actually invested in the business
47. ) Despite the sensational impression caused by the McKesson and Robbins scandal, it must be recognized that over a long period of years only an infinitesimal percentage of publicly owned companies have been involved in frauds of this character
48. The present line of thought brought him to this tiny compartment, this infinitesimal x on the globe where he was now a prisoner, and where no one could possibly find him
49. As we saw, the delta for our 100 strike call with 30 days to expiration was infinitesimal when the underlying stock was trading at 80
50. As great as this achievement was, the Principia had hidden within it another idea of even greater significance: the idea of infinitesimal calculus