Unintelligible

Examples

• I felt as if, from the order of the systematic world, I had plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Whatever is absurd is unintelligible; nor is it possible for the imagination to conceive any thing contrary to a demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A promise, therefore, is naturally something altogether unintelligible, nor is there any act of the mind belonging to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I do not ascribe to the will that unintelligible necessity, which is supposed to lie in matter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Jo and the other lower animals get on in the unintelligible mess as they can. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them. Plato. The Republic.
• To Fanny, however, who had known too much opposition all her life to find any charm in it, all this was unintelligible. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Being unintelligible it must be bad. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He gave it in French, but we must translate, on pain of being unintelligible to some readers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Jackson glanced around the table, caught Janey's bulging gaze, and took refuge in an unintelligible murmur. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He looked suspicious and confused--his ruddy cheeks were deeply flushed--and his first words, when he spoke, were quite unintelligible to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No one answered; but, from within the chambers, there proceeded a continuous spluttering sound of a highly singular and unintelligible nature. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My only excuse for thus transforming them, is that they were unintelligible in their pristine condition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• On the hypothesis of separate acts of creation the whole case remains unintelligible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He coloured, and stammered out an unintelligible reply. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• These he presented to me with a few unintelligible words, and a bearing at once respectful and menacing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These words would be perfectly unintelligible, and would no more have any idea annexed to them, than if they were of a tongue perfectly unknown to us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If it had been otherwise--' Carton looked at the pen and saw it was trailing off into unintelligible signs. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This conversation took place in Greek, so was therefore quite unintelligible to Maurice, who looked from the one to the other in astonishment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Through all the ways of our unintelligible world the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Beyond this, it must ever be unintelligible to Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When we talk of self or substance, we must have an idea annexed to these terms, otherwise they are altogether unintelligible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The latter are altogether unintelligible without first understanding the former. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But these grew more vague with every glass, and at length became perfectly unintelligible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The woman asked her what she did there; but she looked very strangely, and only returned a confused and unintelligible answer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Monks muttered some unintelligible words, but wavered still. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Typist: Virginia