1870 J. Tyndall in 17 Mar. 500/1 Imagine the wire clasped by the mote-filled air.
1966 R. E. Duncan Bk. of Resemblances in (1997) 31 A poet who sits in the light of words like a cat in the mote-filled sunlight of a window.
1993 (Nexis) 7 Nov. 44 A modern bistro..with wooden booths and hatracks, high ceilings, mote-filled beams of sunlight.