Its
invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible.
I felt myself a ghost, what of my
invisibility. I waved my hand back and forth, of course without effect; but when the moving shadow fell across his face I saw at once that he was susceptible to the impression.
Lloyd warmed to the talk in his nervous, jerky fashion, and was soon interrogating the physical properties and possibilities of invisibility. A perfectly black object, he contended, would elude and defy the acutest vision.
Nor, while Paul Tichlorne was thus successfully mastering the problem of invisibility, was Lloyd Inwood a whit behind.
His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of
invisibility, of nonexistence.
The cap of a gnome confers
invisibility, and causes one to behold invisible things.
I argued that the launch must be no great way off, in spite of its
invisibility. I then put myself in the place of Small, and looked at it as a man of his capacity would.
But, his sensations in this regard halt as to their strict morality, as he halts in his gait; for, they suggest the delights of a coat of
invisibility in which to walk off safely with the precious stones and watch-cases, but stop short of any compunction for the people who would lose the same.
When she drew near he held out his hand, which she grasped eagerly, taking it for that of her lover; and, seizing his opportunity, the Prince passed a cord round her arms, and throwing off his
invisibility cried to his spirits to drag her into the lowest pit.
Darkness had fallen, and a keen blizzard was blowing so that the streets were nearly deserted; but a few loiterers followed the group, and emboldened by
invisibility shouted imprecations at the prisoner.
As regards Judge Pyncheon's
invisibility, however, that matter will soon be remedied.
Boffins say they are just five years away from developing the kind of
invisibility cloak used in the movie by Hogwarts wizard Harry Potter.