Both Uses of
inscrutable
in
Bleak House
- She supposes herself to be an inscrutable Being, quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals—seeing herself in her glass, where indeed she looks so.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The patronesses of those establishments, albeit so loftily inscrutable, being as nicely weighed and measured there as any other article of the stock-in-trade, are perfectly understood in this new fashion by the rawest hand behind the counter.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious