mote

It takes a hard heart to not feel a mote of empathy for Gosselin as she runs dead last in a short marathon to their barracks, ugly crying the entire time.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2023

Bangladesh, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has raised fuel prices by mote than 50% in just a week.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022

He noted that Jesus Christ, who was the original pundit, said to “cast out the beam in our own eye before we cast out the mote in the eye of another.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2022

And we as humans, temporary inhabitants of a dust mote, as Carl Sagan said, did what we had to do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

On the day after our aquarium visit, we walked into Mrs. Turton’s classroom and saw a quote on the blackboard: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

How do you get from microscopic motes to entire worlds thousands of kilometers across?

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

“What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

Blanchett adeptly realizes these motes of internal struggle throughout the series, which makes the moments when she drops her façade and voices her aggravation at having to dim her abilities pay off splendidly.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2020

“He would open the curtains a little bit and just study the dust motes, as if it was like a universe of stars that were floating around,” Clark recalls.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2018

With his one hand it would be possible in seconds to squeeze Hatsue’s letter into motes of dust and obliterate its message forever.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Round Continent, they wrote, “produces the moste dear skins,” while the “Round and Long Continents are the best history and story righting in the world, and best artests.”

From Slate ● May 28, 2015

When1 lyffe is most loued1, & deth is moste hated, 4 Then dethe2 drawethe his drawghte & makythe man fulle naked.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

"Bot I ame of ane other contree, If I be payrelde moste of prysse; I ryde aftyre this wylde fee; My raches rynnys at my devyse."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

I will not here describe the moste part of the prouision for that feast, nor the diuersity of Meates, or the delycate kyndes of Wines.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Which bookes be to be sold to him who shal gyue the moste for ye same   London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co, . . .

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various