impalpably

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The agony is laid on deftly, sometimes almost impalpably.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost impalpably it added to the familiar feeling—or lack of feeling—with regard to Robin.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

They were a long line of shadow shapes whose footfall made no sound, and whose pigmy bodies melted into the tangle as impalpably as the dissipating mists.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

Over all—over men, decks, rope-coils—in the cabin, in the engine-room—between skylight leaves—on every shelf, in every cranny—lay a purplish ash or dust, very impalpably fine.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

England had property valuable to the auctioneer; but the accumulate manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lay impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer could estimate?

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John