For it was written in the inscrutable fates that Hungry Smeed should leave a name that would go down imperishably to decades of schoolboys, when Dibbles' touchdown against Princeton and Kafer's home run should be only tinkling sounds.
Mattresses were carried up and hot, suffocating boys lolled through the raging night swapping yarns and gazing at the inscrutable stars.
In My presence among you there was the wisdom of God, and in My absence from you there is yet another, inscrutable to all but the One, the All-Knowing.
But she would not be so disloyal as to entertain the thought long; and who or what had instigated Dare, who was undoubtedly the proximate cause of the mischief, remained to her an inscrutable mystery.
Was the inscrutable seriousness with which she applied herself to his lesson a mockery?
Into this fair region God has seen fit to send the most terrible of all those fearful ministers who fulfil his inscrutable decrees.
Leaning on the shoulder of his friend, he gazed around him, and heard with deepening awe the rumbling of the earth below, the wheels and voices of the Ministry of Nature in her darkest and most inscrutable recess.
It was as if this dark and wondrous being could convert the most ordinary events and the meanest instruments into the agencies of his inscrutable will; yet, if so, why have permitted the capture of Viola?
Instinctively he knew that she had not finished with him yet; that she was not ready to let him go until he had served some inscrutable purpose which she had had in view from the beginning.
To him who hears them grief beyond control, Or joy inscrutable without a name, Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled, Before the birth and making of the world.
The human brain is a wonderful instrument, by means of which, in someinscrutable way, viz.
It was an inscrutable smile; a smile in which the eyes participated not at all.
Go back to Angela, the beautiful woman with inscrutable grey eyes, who waits for you, clothed in her eternal calm, like a mountain in its snows.
For the compact that it has sealed is holy among holy things; that love which it has given is of its own nature, and not of the body alone--it is inscrutableas death, and everlasting as the heavens.
Look at the low, broad forehead, the curling hair, the full lips, and the inscrutable look of the face.
Her dark face andinscrutable eyes, the stamp of power upon her brow, all suggested that she was a mistress of the black arts.
Stern glanced down at her, an inscrutable expression on his face, which had grown hard and set and ugly.
Silent and dim through the fog, he had come thither with sandaled feet, and now stood with a strange, inscrutable smile on his long-bearded lips.
He lay propped on an attendant's arm, the beautiful eyes serene, an inscrutable smile on the colourless lips.
Sir Robert looked down at the prostrate man with his inscrutable smile.
His face was white, his eyes inscrutable as they met Jerry's.
One inscrutable attachment thatinscrutable woman has.
The thought of such a misery smites me down in submission before the Ruler of kings and men, the Monarch Supreme over empires and republics, the inscrutable Dispenser of life, death, happiness, victory.
But the great beast lay mute and inscrutable in the sun.
The Secretary was a large man with a smooth shaven, inscrutable face and blue eyes that were set far apart under overhanging brows.
He recalled the Secretary's fine, inscrutable face and that something back of its mask that he had liked and understood.
It lacked the dignity of the first occasion and the Vermont member who presided was not the calm, inscrutable judge that the Secretary had been.
The Secretary's face was quite as inscrutable as Jim's.
Faint streamers from the dark, inscrutable house of fear reached him even then and left their vague, undecipherable signatures upon the surface of his soul.
With one final wave of his cigar to the gesticulating Joao and the grinning women he turned his back on the town and faced the little-known river and the inscrutable jungle.
His face was inscrutable as ever, his eyes fathomless, his voice flat and toneless.
If anything had been there it now was gone, and the vacant shadows beyond were as inscrutable as ever.
He stared unblinkingly at me for a moment, but during that moment he recovered his equanimity, and became again his customary inscrutable self.
Consequently the next step was to turn to Burke: when I did so I was met only by a mental image of hisinscrutable tawny eyes; the baffling, impassive visage which showed no mark of age.
The pale eyes flashed a malignant look at me, and straightway becameinscrutable again.
Sybil looks paler than is usual for her, but no other expression than one of calmness and ennui can be detected on that lovely, inscrutable face; and the dusky eyes keep well veiled, and tell no secrets.
Nevertheless it was he who despatched Vitrolles, the passionate royalist, to Nesselrode with a letter in invisible ink which, when deciphered, turned out to be an inscrutable riddle capable of two interpretations.
With inscrutable faces they stood across the highway, lances set and muskets charged, under orders to fire on Napoleon the moment he should appear.
Unfathomable are the appointments of what men call Heaven: inscrutable are the workings of the unseen: unknowable are the mysteries of eternal truth: unrecognisable those who are destined to attain to old age!
I have been tossed hither and thither in the direction of the ruling wind, like a flower falling in filthy places; but the six paths[42] of transmigration are inscrutable indeed, and I have no right to complain.
