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Meanings of be a mote in English

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Usage of be a mote in English
1
To be a mote or an echo, to be a compass unused except to give his mind knowledge of her whereabouts.
Anil's ghost
2
What is a mote of dust in another's eye, in yours is a cataract.
The Morgesons: A Novel
3
If so, Gentle thought, I 'm a mote, diamond hard.
Imajica: Complete Edition
4
There is a mote in his eye.
The Goose Girl
5
The squad ship's sixty feet of length was a mote so minute by comparison that no comparison was possible.
A Matter of Importance
6
If idleness is a mote in the eyes of the poor, it is a beam in the eyes of the rich.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
7
If there is a mote in the neighbor's eye, perhaps there is a very large piece of timber in your own.
Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula...
8
When they ended, Telhami was gone, the other two had remounted, and there was a mote of utter emptiness in his memory.
The brazen gambit
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Russia was a huge country, and the house of General Fyodor Gallatinov was a mote of dust on the head of a pin.
The Wolf’s Hour