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Soap bubble   /soʊp bˈəbəl/   Listen
Soap bubble

noun
1.
A bubble formed by a thin soap film.






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"Soap bubble" Quotes from Famous Books



... of all efforts to move them. Whoever seeks to hold the gifts of God in His Gospel in dirty hands will fail miserably in the attempt; and all the joy and peace of communion, the assurance of God's love, and the calm hope of immortal life will vanish as a soap bubble, grasped by a child, turns into a drop of foul water on its palm, if we try to hold them in foul hands. Be clean, or you cannot bear the vessels ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... doomed, as its decease at this epoch seemed impending. It managed, however, to come again into popular favour, but in a very different shape. Instead of the usual comic Pantomime it was played by two different sets of performers, and having no connection with one another. The opening scenes, like a soap bubble, began to grow larger and larger, the double plot was abandoned, the Transformation scene became the principal feature, and a long Harlequinade at ...
— A History of Pantomime • R. J. Broadbent

... color will, of course, not be undiluted; for other crystals will send forward white light, and this, blended with the colored light, will produce delicate shades in cases where the corresponding colors of a soap bubble would be vivid. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various



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