He professed to be able to give evidence against his master, but in examination before the Lord Chief Justice nothing intelligible could be extracted from him.
But, as I have noted above, there is no sign that Lancelot knew anything of the promised guerdon; his conduct is therefore more intelligible and less unchivalrous than in the lai.
Even the astronomical part was difficult, for I had to translate analytical formulæ into intelligible language, and to draw diagrams illustrative thereof, and this occupied the first seven sections of the book.
Star, blushing for the first time Edith ever saw that intelligible sign in her face.
This, he declares, can only extort applause of the "crowd" and such music can only result in mere tickling of the ear, because when the text is not intelligible there can be no appeal to the understanding.
I spoke of this as an extreme instance of the use of this form of literary language, because the knowledge needed to render it intelligible is more unusual and special than that generally appealed to by writers.
They makeintelligible the meaning and significance of mental experiences.
There have been almost as many definitions of poetry made already as there have been writers on literature, some of them intelligible and some of them open to the charge of incomprehensibility.
To make myself intelligible in what I shall say on this point, it is necessary to go back to the epoch of the Russian convention of 1824, and to recall the recollection of the circumstances out of which that convention grew.
They did so on the intelligible principle that the British had discovered it, and settled it, and were in the actual possession of it when we got the Spanish claim; which claim Spain never made!
All the rest of the inclusions of British establishments which the line makes, from head to mouth of Frazer's River, are intelligible enough: they turn upon the principle of all or none!
They are intelligible only if we take the old-fashioned explanation, that its origin was a divine revelation, given to a rude people.
This is intelligible enough; but we hardly think there are many reasoners of this calibre.
Whatever there is of truth or significance in his work, may easily be transferred into a language familiar and intelligibleto all.
In conclusion, we shall merely remark that we look forward with much interest to the financial exposition of the year, in the hope that it may be more intelligible and satisfactory than the last.
The same desire to render minutely intelligiblethe whole subject treated of, which these woodcuts show, is manifested in the more solid letterpress of the book.
It may make many things intelligible and excusable which now are not to be understood.
MY DEAR MADAM, "If I made myselfintelligible yesterday, this letter will be expected; but expected or not, I know it will be read with candour and indulgence.
Harriet could not very soon give an intelligible account.
Rome went a long way in letting subject peoples keep their institutions; but it was too much to expect Pilate to be the hangman for these furious priests, on a charge scarcely intelligible to him.
The tangled web of human history is only then intelligible when that is taken as its clue, 'From Him are all things, and to Him are all things.
There were other "indulgences," scarcely intelligible in our days, which yet yielded fabulous results.
After a confused and scarcely intelligible bargain with the rebel chiefs at Soochow, by which their lives were to be spared, they were beheaded by order of Li.
There was no dialect through which the foreign idea could translate itself to Chinese comprehension, no medium by which Chinese political conceptions could be made intelligible to the foreigner.
Thus no religion gives us anintelligible First Cause, a code or a heaven that we want.
It was, however, abundantly intelligible to myself, and the more I dwelt upon it the more hopeless it appeared.
But to any one who reflects on the principles of human nature, and the moving powers by which it is impelled, whether towards virtue or vice, such a result must appear not only intelligible but unavoidable.
As this rather high-flown passage might not be generally intelligible to our readers, we will put it into plain English.
The words of our morning service, how beautiful, how apposite, how intelligible they were, when read with simple and distinct decorum!
Be that as it may, little had been said about her husband, but that little had made it clearly intelligibleto the family that Signor Neroni was to be seen and heard of no more.
The bishop understood the little extra squeeze, and an intelligiblegleam of assent twinkled in his eye.
The advance which Roman Catholic Christianity has been, and is still, making has its intelligible reason.
After a life-time spent in trying to make two continents understand each other, in trying, and only his thoughtful readers can have any conception of how he had tried, to make three nations intelligible one to another.
Frequently it is possible by omitting English particles to make a literal word-for-word translation which will be not only intelligible in English, but even the strongest and most poetical English.
At the same time their conduct is intelligible on the assumption that such marriages were as unpermissible then, as marriage between a brother and sister would be at the present time.
These people spoke no intelligible word as far as I was concerned.
The very isolation of it, adrift in a waste of partially intelligible expressions, doubles the luminous emphasis of it.
I think it is intelligible that in such a place and at such a crisis philosophy should have played a conspicuous part, and also that it should have had an ambiguous character.
What could be more intelligible than that a deity like Jehovah, a giant inhabitant of the natural world, should be confronted with rivals, enemies, and rebellious children?
If a younger son asks why he was not born before his elder brother, that question may represent an intelligible state of his feelings; but there is no answer to it, because it is a childish question.
What could be more intelligiblethan that the inertia of matter, or pure chance, or some contrary purpose, should mar the expression of any platonic idea exercising its magic influence over the world?
No intelligent and intelligible answers can be given to questions as to the origin and the end or the government of Nature[15] without assuming the existence of the One and only one God who is Infinite and Absolute, i.
The blunders mentioned are intelligible enough as in a version from the French; but in the description of the Indian pearl-fishery we have a startling one not so easy to account for.
Paris Library), it is, in the correctness of the proper names, and the intelligible exhibition of the itineraries, much superior to any form of the Work previously published.
It is thus very intelligible how Marco learned from the Mongols and the Lamas with whom he came in contact to regard Káshmir as "the very original source from which their Religion had spread abroad.
They direct by signs, which are quite asintelligible as words, the drivers of the trains starting from inside the station, as well as those of the trains arriving from outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intelligible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
