The lines along which our minds travel can at the best be asymptotic, approaching each other indefinitely near, but never quite coinciding.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
It is Matter of Breviary that the progress of our lives is but asymptotic to true joy; we can approach it nearer and nearer, but we can never reach it.
"Hills and the Sea"
H. Belloc
In the interim my mental condition had been chaotic, asymptotic.
"The War of the Wenuses"
C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas