Then a swift, undefinable change passed over Mollie's face.
But she did not think long of herself, for an undefinableanxiety ran through her thoughts like a black thread.
She had been, after all, unable to stay out the ten days of her visit: the undefinable sense of being needed, so often the determining motive of her actions, drew her back to Long Island at the end of the week.
Clarissa heard the approaching marriage discussed with a strange feeling, a nameless undefinable regret.
It was only by an undefinable change in his manner--a deeper graver tenderness in his tone--that she guessed her father must have told him her decision.
Our system of distinguishing between species and varieties is not based upon the definition which we are now considering, but upon that which we last considered--frequently coupled, to some undefinable extent, with No.
If I am told to believe that the definite quality A is a necessary attribute of B, and yet that B is "not a distinct entity," but an undefinable abstraction, I can only marvel that any one should expect me to be so simple.
For the first time I felt a creep of undefinable horror.
It was not so much what we saw or heard that drove us away, as it was an undefinable terror which seized both of us whenever we passed by the door of a certain unfurnished room, in which we neither saw nor heard anything.
Don Tadeo looked at her for a moment with an undefinable expression, and then burst into a dry, nervous laugh, which chilled the woman with fear.
And he turned towards Black-Stag, with a smile of undefinable expression.
The two warriors exchanged a look of undefinable meaning; these two men, so cunning and dissimulating, had compromised themselves to each other without avowing anything.
Catesby would have challenged it, but an undefinable terror seized him, and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth.
Prompted by some undefinable feeling, which caused him to rush upon his destruction, the pursuivant ventured upon the roof of the stables, and was followed by his companions.
Mr. Ruskin has said: "Rubens was a great painter, but he lacked that lastundefinable something which makes heart speak to heart.
He painted through habit, and the work had merit, but only at rare intervals was there in it that undefinable something which all can recognize, but none analyze, that stamps the product as great art.
The last elusive, undefinable stroke of the brush, that something uniting the spirit of the beholder with the spirit of the artist, so that you feel as he felt when he wrought--that is art.
We felt nothing of this--nothing but that undefinable impulse which had entered our hearts, and to whose mystical power neither of us dreamed of offering opposition.
I have explained that I compose either from an inward impulse, winged by a lofty and undefinable inspiration, or I simply work, invoking all my powers, which sometimes answer and sometimes remain deaf to my invocation.
The master sat for some moments with his hand upon the sleeping man's eyes, and a vague and undefinable sense of loneliness seemed to fall upon him from the empty rafters of the silent and deserted house.
Presently he stopped; once or twice he had been overtaken by a vague undefinable sense of pleasure, even to the dreamy halting of his pen.
But what especially struck him was the way in which she detached herself, by a hundred undefinable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style.
Now it had been Selden's fate to have a charming mother: her graceful portrait, all smiles and Cashmere, still emitted a faded scent of the undefinable quality.
For a time the mystery involved seemed as undefinable as the jargon of the motley group.
He had a proud eye and noble and regular features; his countenance indicated bravery; and an expression of bantering carelessness gave to it an undefinable air of knowing confidence.
Dona Eva, fixing on him her large eyes, with an undefinable expression; "Do you fear to afflict us, Senor Don Emile?
I yielded at once to that penetrating andundefinable charm which you exert even over those persons to whom you are indifferent.
Do not go inside; it has a sickly smell of immemorial incense and garlic, undefinable and horrible.
The Greeks lacked anundefinable something of rusticity which dignified the Latin race.
The undefinable expression of the lips, together with the weight of the brows and slumberous half-closed eyes, gives a look of sulkiness or voluptuousness to the whole face.
The young man fixed upon him a glance of undefinable expression, and crossed his arms boldly on his chest.
A smile of undefinable meaning wandered over the monk's pallid lips.
The missionary cast at the monk a glance ofundefinable meaning.
You know very well," he answered with a smile of undefinable meaning.
In the evening the telephone rang and I was told that the undefinable somebody with whom I had been talking had been His Royal Highness, the Grand-Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
I noticed a General's trousers, an Order at the neck, an unusually youthful face and undefinable epaulettes.
He is coming toward us," Natah Otann replied, with an undefinable smile.
At the sight of the procession a smile of undefinable meaning played round his lips, and he halted to let the Comanche warriors defile before him.
At times he would stand for hours before her, leaning against a wall, with his eyes fixed on her with anundefinable expression, without uttering a word.
Blue-fox gazed on him for a moment with am undefinable expression, and then walked up and stood by his side.
