Time is not in reality the fourth dimension at all; yet to look at it for the moment from that point of view is some slight help towards grasping the ungraspable.
"Clairvoyance"
Charles Webster Leadbeater
I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine
Everything was elusive, ungraspable, evasive-he seemed to get no further forward.
"In the Mayor's Parlour"
J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher