And somehow the lack of that indefinable some thing called humanity robbed them of much of their glamour.
They weren't human, but they were intelligent and they did have personality even though they didn't possess that indefinable quality that separated man from the beasts.
He looked older and the indefinableair of cruelty was more pronounced.
She bemoaned her fate, spreading unconsciously, like a flower its perfume in the coolness of the evening, the indefinable seduction of her person.
Both became overshadowed by a new and indefinable horror; and when I awoke--or rather when I shook off the lethargy that bound me in my chair--my whole frame thrilled with objectless and unintelligible fear.
Added to her natural dislike to such endearments before spectators of the class then present, a curious indefinable sensation of repulsion took possession of her temporarily, as strong as it was instinctive.
But again she drew back; the same indefinable feeling of repulsion arose in her instinctively, as strong, as inexplicable.
The railroad stations were shabbier; there was an indefinable touch of something Southern in the scenery and the people.
An indefinable impulse communicated itself to the steamer: while it still seemed motionless it moved.
He sat there, braiding his belt, an indefinable half smile on his face.
She flushed ever so slightly at the indefinable change in his eyes.
The loveliness of her features was so heavenly that it carried to the soul an indefinable sentiment of ecstacy, a delightful calm.
Her mouth was small, disclosing two rows of fairest orient pearls, and from her red lips flowed forth an indefinable sweetness.
I have been told that he had wit, that he was well educated, and even in high spirits at times, but he could not get over his shyness, which gave him an almost indefinable air of stupidity.
Every face was stamped with an indefinable electrical enthusiasm, which was communicated through the whole of the crowd; a strong emotional feeling which was neither of grief nor of reflection lit up every face.
In my present condition, a prey to indefinable hallucinations it seems to me that these walls are thicker than ever, that they are gradually closing in upon and will crush me.
This is what occurred: At eight o'clock in the evening on October 23, I quitted my cell in an indefinable state of nervousness, and with a presentiment that a serious event was imminent.
Hermogen attended the marriage of his father with the coldest indifference, but Aurelia, the dear child, who was haunted with a thousand indefinable apprehensions, burst into tears.
He would jar the idyl into a mockery, the indefinable malignity of him, alert and silent up there at the head of the stairs, floating down like an evil wind to mingle with the reminiscent sound of rain.
Then something snapped and crackled sharply and he sat beside a camp fire, conscious of an indefinable fusing within him.
A waft of the breeze from an unhealthy country, from the land where one has suffered most, may seem to bring the odors of Paradise; and in a dull life there is an indefinable sweetness in memories of past pain.
The Bishop said nothing; but an indefinable change came over him.
She shuddered now because the arrival of a messenger from the Bishop, and something indefinable in Hugh's manner, had caused her to look back.
As she moved down the steps, and came swiftly toward him, he was conscious at once of an indefinable change in her.
Maud knew that he enjoyed her society by a hundred indefinable signs; and when they bade each other good-bye, the glance of the dark eyes seemed to speak of a warmer interest than that of friendship.
On the second occasion the icy hand of her godfather was laid upon her shoulder, causing her the most horrible distress, an indefinable sensation.
Even then, moved as he was by this savage joy, Ralph could see in the faces of the two brothers, mingling with their look of disgust and horror, something of that indefinable compassion for himself which he had noticed before.
More striking still was some indefinable resemblance, in the face of Ralph, to both.
Out of the dark came the breathing of the horses, fastened near the tobacco-cask, the croaking of frogs in a marshy place, and all the stealthy, indefinable stir of the forest at night.
He was not handsome, far from it; but, in some indefinable way, his grey eyes suggested sympathy, whilst the poise of his head spoke of determination verging on obstinacy.
Her tears fell fast beside the unconscious pair in the coffin: tears of a complicated origin, of a nature indescribable, almost indefinable except as other than those of simple sorrow.
What Troy did was to sink upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robin, gently kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it.
Such an old house fills an American with an indefinable feeling of respect.
Dryden himself recognized that indefinable and gregarious influence which we call nowadays the spirit of the age, when he said that "every age has a kind of universal genius.
A cloud of mystery and indefinable horror seemed to envelop her; then a light flooded through her brain.
She knew not why, except that there was an indefinable craving for a self respect which had been violated by herself and others; except that she longed for the thing which she felt he would not give her.
An indefinable suggestion of haste sat on a progress not unduly hurried.
Yet in no detail was the place so marked as by an indefinable oppressive atmosphere.
