inscrutableness

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Sometimes, wrought to a mystic mood by contemplating its ponderous inscrutableness, Pierre had called it the Terror Stone.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

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

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

Only let me not despair in Thee, because of this inscrutableness.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various