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inscrutableness





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My wonder was excited by the inscrutableness of the cause, but my wonder was unmixed with sorrow or fear.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown

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 Zane Grey

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 Herman Melville

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

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin

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 Herman Melville




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