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Definition:A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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For now the great charity and prayeres
Of limitours, and other holy freres,
That search every land and ev'ry stream
As thick as motes in the sunne-beam,
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale (1400)
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I thought of myself as hanging in the Store, a mote imprisoned on a shaft of sunlight.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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the once-shelled church, made Michael gasp a little as he regarded them, lit here and there in a mellow and holy beam of sunlight, dancing with dust motes and shimmering over the wasted, fiercely hating faces.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.496 (1948)
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HORATIO: A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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I cast a look up at my slit window, where the dust motes were going mad in the golden light.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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there was none that differed more utterly from the rooms at Combray, thickly powdered with the motes of an atmosphere granular, pollenous, edible and instinct with piety, than my room in the Grand Hôtel de la Plage,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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