Intelligible

Examples

• Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'if I am to render myself intelligible to this gentleman, I must beg you to control your feelings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Hence, the canon of Natura non facit saltum, which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to confirm, is on this theory intelligible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape--far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She thought he did well to assert his own will, but she wished that will to have been more intelligible to the multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Not Mr. Luker only--which would be intelligible enough--but Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite as well. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Consequently no proposition can be intelligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He echoed her words slowly, as though they were only half-intelligible and he wanted time to repeat the question to himself. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Lots of money--old girl--pompous doctor--not a bad idea--good fun,' were the intelligible sentences which issued from his lips. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This hypothesis is not otherwise intelligible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. Plato. The Republic.
• May I suppose that you have this distinction of the visible and intelligible fixed in your mind? Plato. The Republic.
• Nor is the empire of the will over our mind more intelligible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Which was more cheerful than intelligible. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I believe, as far as Henry is concerned, that was the tenor of his scarcely intelligible directions; but he may change all to-morrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Having recorded their feelings in these very intelligible terms, they looked at Mr. Pickwick and each other in awkward silence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible: How goes it, Jacques? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The girl moaned out some half intelligible reply, that she could not tell; and seemed, from the smothered noise that escaped her, to be crying. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When women are sensible, and, above all, intelligible, I can get on with them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How give intelligible expression to a pang none but I could ever understand! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is no danger of your not being intelligible, which is the first thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Harriet could not very soon give an intelligible account. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Her mother would talk of her views in the same intelligible tone. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Boots and Brewer go about in cabs, with no other intelligible business on earth than to beat up people to come and dine with the Veneerings. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Perhaps the less I say of these sick experiences, the less tedious and the more intelligible I shall be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It further happened that Mrs Plornish, not being philosophical, was intelligible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Have Hartright's perfectly intelligible prejudices infected me without my suspecting their influence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And a good notion, too, for it is intelligible, at the leaSt. Stay a minute, Count, I interposed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Do I render myself intelligible? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• During his walk home his most intelligible sensation was that his scheme had somehow become glorified. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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