A startling and mysterious crime is dear to the human imagination, and here we are confronted with one hideous in its cruelty and inexplicable in its circumstances.
No one, no man, however jealous and crabbed in temper, will be sorry to see the law vivified by a spark of that genius, that inexplicable instinct by which women know what is right and make right to be done, where men fail and fail again.
The loss of memory which Fu-Manchu had artificially induced was subject to the sameinexplicable laws which ordinarily rule in cases of amnesia.
The proximity of a tower of any kind, at night, makes in some inexplicableway for awe, and to-night there were other agents, too.
To explain the inexplicableis a contradiction in terms.
Stimulated by my related experiences, he began to search in his memory, and imparted to me some inexplicable incidents of his life during the last few years.
The 'intuition' is made by substituting for 'ideas' a mysterious and inexplicable connection between the mind and matter.
The fact remained inexplicable till philosophers caught the idea of atmospheric pressure; since when, the suspension of mercury in the barometer, and water in a pump, have been well understood.
How "things get about" is one of those inexplicable mysteries for which nobody is able or willing to account.
A fresh telegram had been despatched, and Paul had also been written to,--it was inexplicablethat he should remain silent, unless a mistake had been made somewhere.
The usages of patriarchal life change; but this germ of ritual remains, developing, but always in a religious interest, losing its domestic character, and therefore becoming more and more inexplicable with each generation.
Many are content to accept them as strange and inexplicable at present, and to wait for further light upon them; others insist upon an immediate inquiry concerning their probable nature and meaning.
He shrank from allowing even the sympathetic eyes of George and Watty to rest on what for him was wrapped in mystery and inexplicable reverence.
For both, black opal had a subtle, inexplicable fascination.
But I have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before I see the end.
The more she heard of this curious affair, the more inexplicable it seemed.
Terrific quacking followed, interspersed by distant and heartrending yells from the dogs, but the inexplicable feature of the case was that the ducks did not rise from the water.
Speak on," said she, feeling at that moment an inexplicable emotion which made her heart beat high, and banished the blood from her cheeks.
Just consider the whole series of inexplicable circumstances, so singularly linked together.
To his memory recurred the succession of singular, inexplicable circumstances attending the discovery of the new bed.
As he stooped there the humming patrolman was the witness of a remarkable and inexplicable occurrence.
Is it an inexplicable thing that a girl should enjoy her lover's society the more for the presence of a third person, and be without the slightest spasm of jealousy that the third person had the conversation habitually directed to her?
Hence, his frequently almost inexplicable variety of statements, and hence, also, the need of frequent examination.
It is mainly a matter of reducing the mass of the inexplicable to a minimum and the whole to its simplest terms.
Among youthful persons, women especially, there will be some anticipatory image which serves as a plan, and this will explain at least the otherwise inexplicable and superfluous concomitants like unnecessary cruelty and destruction.
So we find ourselves in the presence of one of the inexplicable situations of the reality of which we are assured by the most trustworthy individuals.
Perhaps it is true, as is sometimes said, that here is a case of sexuality expressing itself in an inexplicable manner.
According to some authorities the chief source of error is the senses, but whether something must not be attributed to that mysterious, inexplicable moment in which sensory perception becomes intellectual perception, nobody can say.
If, however, the observer finds an inexplicable hiatus in an event he happens to notice, he finds it strange because unintelligible.
He did not like the Italian, for some inexplicable reason, for to Margaret's knowledge they had never met.
She was discussing with me herinexplicable antipathy to Mr. Capella, even during the time when they were outwardly good friends.
It seemed to spring from one of those inexplicable impulses which often actuate Indians and appear no better than the mere outbreaks of native ferocity.
Then men's thoughts centered again on the Mystery, and the solution of the inexplicable problem agitated mankind from China to Peru.
It is the most inexplicable mystery in all my experience.
In spite of the passing effort which she had made to be gay and to laugh at the sonnet of the Gascon, she was a prey to inexplicable forebodings, oppressed by vague fears, as if she felt instinctively the dangers that were gathering about her.
The former because it recalled a life around which her fancies still played with dangerous persistency, and the latter because it aroused vain and inexplicable conjectures as to that person's strange and lingering look in her direction.
Instead of that, he gave me a queer inexplicable smile, and merely said, 'I want to see the greenbacks, my lad.
But what could I guess of the possible evil underlying the natural ebullition of unrestrained passion that from some cause of pride or pique, had met with a strange inexplicable check.
It was one of those inexplicable things which can not be answered.
And certainly the woman of the past night's adventure was of high degree, educated; and doubtless the spirit which had prompted the song was asinexplicable to her this morning as it had been to him last night.
How inexplicable were the currents and cross-currents of life!
What possessed me to say that I am the princess is as inexplicable to me as to you, though you may not believe it.
Whoever had written that hurried scrawl had not had time to finish the sentence which would probably have thrown some light upon the inexplicable affair.
Although this magistrate, from some inexplicable cause, is my enemy, I must not forget that I am a gentleman.
