Unaccountable

Examples

• It was an unaccountable business. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In every view it is unaccountable! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Indeed, it would be strange and unaccountable were the results otherwise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Winifred made a strange crooning noise of unaccountable excitement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The feelings you have inspired in me are unaccountable, even to myself. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What an unaccountable creature is man! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She was in a state of inexpressible admiration of Mrs. Bounderby, and, like an unaccountable old woman, wept, 'because she was such a pretty dear. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The most unaccountable will I ever heard! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was the most mysterious and unaccountable thing that was ever heard of. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But the whole of their behaviour to each other has been unaccountable! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is quite unaccountable to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• After leaving Mr. Franklin and me at the Shivering Sand, Rosanna, it appeared, had returned to the house in a very unaccountable state of mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have now answered your unaccountable question. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You are a very strange, a very unaccountable boy, Martin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And he went off growling to himself and still wondering and wondering over the unaccountable conduct of No. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• First, that my young lady was, in some unaccountable manner, at the bottom of the sharp speeches that had passed between them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The following conversation may serve to explain to our readers this apparently unaccountable alteration of deportment on the part of Mr. Tracy Tupman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And if there has been any variability under nature, it would be an unaccountable fact if natural selection had not come into play. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It's unaccountable to me, he says, still staring at the portrait, how well I know that picture! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No; some unaccountable one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• All about us in the garden lay their sinister craft, which the therns for some reason, then unaccountable to me, made no effort to injure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When we heard this unaccountable answer, we looked at one another quite lost in amazement. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Well, I suppose she doesn't know him, mused Caroline to herself, and by this hypothesis she endeavoured to account for what seemed else unaccountable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Dorothea, in a most unaccountable, darkly feminine manner, ended with a slight sob and eyes full of tears. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. Clements did all in her power to oppose the execution of this hazardous and unaccountable project. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is unaccountable! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was known twenty--forty times over, there being at least forty plausible reasons adduced to account for the unaccountable circumstance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim; it conducted itself in such an unaccountable manner, when I tried to steady it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was as if he were possessed with all the devils, after one of these unaccountable conflicts with Ursula. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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