inexplainable

Example Sentences

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There was something inexplainable about this maid who veiled her eagerness to admit him with such transparencies.

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Inwardly he had wanted to play the game … to get up and play harder than ever … but for some inexplainable reason he could not make himself.

From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow

For some inexplainable reason, he seemed to hold all the rest of the crowd responsible for the catastrophe, but was wildly devoted to me.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

The rider himself after a time becomes infected with this inexplainable desperation of terror, and I suppose I must have done so; but for a time I kept the upper hand.

From The Open Door, and the Portrait. Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

But at times certain incidents or coincidents take place in the life of the soldier that are inexplainable, to say the least.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus