All 6 Uses of
intelligible
in
Oliver Twist
- He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.†
Chpt 13
- In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark narrow courts, and was forced along them at a pace which rendered the few cries he dared to give utterance to, unintelligible.†
Chpt 15
- It was of little moment, indeed, whether they were intelligible or no; for there was nobody to care for them, had they been ever so plain.†
Chpt 15 *
- The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on.†
Chpt 23
- The girl moaned out some half intelligible reply, that she could not tell; and seemed, from the smothered noise that escaped her, to be crying.†
Chpt 26
- Monks muttered some unintelligible words, but wavered still.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(intelligible) capable of being understood