inscrutableness

Example Sentences

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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

This conception of the merry Sphinx may seem strange to the dyspeptic philosopher pondering on the inscrutableness of the universe.

From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord

The illumination that had brought it out was now faded, and all was a blur, an inscrutableness, a scrawl of unintelligible characters alike.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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