inscrutableness

Example Sentences

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And so much the more that it was so subterranean in him, so much the more did he feel its weird inscrutableness.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

It seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue that if followed properly would make all her strangeness plain. 

From The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack

Colter had not been so bold nor so rude as Daggs, but he was the same kind of man, perhaps the more dangerous for his secretiveness, his cool, waiting inscrutableness.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane

But our soul's arches underfit into its; and so, prevent the upper arch from falling on us with unsustainable inscrutableness.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The inscrutableness however of the mystery they contained, did not suffice to overwhelm my courage.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William