They were as insubstantial as smoke, but moved intelligently, with growing speed.

The Workers' Quarter and Clocktower are as insubstantial as mirages.

They were wood nymphs, the same as Willow's mother-childlikecreatures as insubstantial as smoke.

Tentacles as insubstantial as breath slide beneath my skin.

All his old world now seemed as remote, as insubstantial, as phantomlike, as this had seemed.

It was very low and long-at least four feet long-and as insubstantial as a shadow, but much darker.

I felt as insubstantial as one.

I can't bring myself to tell her she's chasing a dream as insubstantial as a wisp of smoke.

All of the lip service to motherhood still floats in the air, as insubstantial as clouds of angel dust.

The great trees flashed past me on either side, seemingly as insubstantial as a dream, come and gone impossibly fast.

He wishes that he could go back and tell himself that his poverty would be as insubstantial as his education.

The fence was tougher than it looked-itlooked as insubstantial as moonbeams-butit had never been intended to stop vehicles.

If she thought of them at all, she viewed them as insubstantial ghosts, wholly irrelevant to her life in Vermont.

Those conditions they'd agreed to so long ago had seemed as insubstantial as ghosts in the warm, sunny light of day.

Anyone besides Chadwick probably wouldn't have sensed Hunter's uneasiness, it was so slight-ashard to see, as insubstantial as a tripwire.

The Indian rope trick, he demonstrates, has always been a con-trick, concocted from materials as insubstantial as a cloud of incense.