Both Uses of
inexplicable
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of events than those which have happened in my own family.†
Chpt 5 *
- "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight seems to be almost inexplicable.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(inexplicable) incapable of being explained or accounted for