This eye had a mote: a yellow dwarf companion, smaller and dimmer, and uninteresting.
It is a small, red mote in the sky, its diameter some four thousand miles.
It had a small yellow mote.
Glow-seeds, each one a small mote of light in this dark place, would serve to mark his path so that he would not wander below the ground forever.
She was again grateful for his calm good nature, but with that gratitude came a small mote of resentment.
The plume of gas was visibly weaken A small pearl-white mote curved over the edge of the shell section, chasing after the ship.
The two are reminders, Lord writes, that "we are the small mote of dust in a galaxy, the drop in the sea, the inconsequential flicker through a timeless landscape."
Her body, clasped at the tip of the tentacle, appeared like a small mote in space.
She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings.
He was a part of this history, though just a small and insignificant mote.