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Example sentences for "inscrutability"

Lexicographically close words:
inscribes; inscribing; inscription; inscriptional; inscriptions; inscrutable; inscrutably; insect; insectes; insecticide
  1. As usual, she was beyond him; and despite her exclamations of surprise, of appreciation and pleasure she maintained the outward poise, the inscrutability that summed up for him her uniqueness in the world of woman.

  2. He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale.

  3. On the other hand, Jane's inscrutability gave her no discomfort whatever.

  4. In fact, inscrutability is about the most comfortable expression that a person can wear, though the truth is that just now Jane was not really inscrutable at all.

  5. And in his mother's eyes, as they slowly came to rest on his in reply, he was aware of an inscrutability strongly remindful of that inscrutable look of Jane's.

  6. For the moment he betook himself to the writing of the famous memoirs which were to sustain the legend of his inscrutability until the close of the nineteenth century.

  7. It was absolutely impossible to read the lowered face; even when at length he raised it, and looked Langholm in the eyes once more, the natural inscrutability of the man was only more complete than ever.

  8. Native woman gives information of the murder of whites—Natives run off with the cattle—Murder of three miners—Inscrutability of the Kafir mind—Matabele raid on cattle.

  9. How get through this wall of inscrutability which the black and yellow races have raised for their protection?

  10. She was pale, but, as always in her crises, the curtain of inscrutability made her face a mask.

  11. As for Eleanor, she maintained that sweet inscrutability of face which became, as years and trouble came on, her great and unappreciated personal asset.

  12. For Stonor to tell him would have been to defeat his object; to lie would have been to lower himself in their eyes; so Stonor took refuge in an inscrutability as polite as the old man's own.

  13. Under his savage inscrutability the signs of fidgets became perceptible.

  14. I loved to look up at these windows at night, at the sheer inscrutability of them.

  15. The old-fashioned mystery of the sea was replaced by the inscrutability of what some muckrakers called "The Pool.


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