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  • Einstein had said: Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.†   (source)
  • The recording was grainy, but still intelligible.†   (source)
  • My plan, I told him, was simply to effect essentially cosmetic changes in order to make the ANC more intelligible—and more palatable—to our allies.†   (source)
  • The answer was in slightly strange but perfectly intelligible Lapine.†   (source)
  • "They won't let me talk," Lucien mumbled, barely intelligible.†   (source)
  • She gave clear, intelligible answers, without hesitation.†   (source)
  • Etta stood very still, trying to decipher the broken air waves into intelligible sound, but she couldn't make out the words.†   (source)
  • It is not at all easy to explain in words how one can make intelligible thought-shapes.†   (source)
  • Surfer Dude or Valley Girl, the urban black language of hip-hop artists, or any of a dozen other regional or ethnic dialects that together constitute American English—some of them barely intelligible to one another?†   (source)
  • The first intelligible line is HAMLET'S, coming at the end of a short speech-see Shakespeare Act II, scene ii.†   (source)
  • As soon as they locate her voice they throng joyfully to her, speaking all at once; ANNIE is down on her knees to the smallest, and the following are the more intelligible fragments in the general hubbub.†   (source)
  • Instead of settling down and going to sleep, those who had only a short way to go found seats anywhere-near the door or in the middle of the car-and sat up arguing in low voices about local matters intelligible only to themselves.†   (source)
  • The Director wanted us to feel like we were there, but the dialogue was not intelligible.
  • articulate an intelligible plan
  • The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men reached the bank.†   (source)
  • They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.†   (source)
  • "Yes, they're great," Denny said, and Stem chimed in with a not-quite-intelligible murmur.†   (source)
  • The contained roar of the gas and then, a minute later, the first sizzling of meat juices, took on the volume and weight of oracular mutterings, almost intelligible.†   (source)
  • Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.†   (source)
  • Second, there did not seem to be any intelligible basic overview of the activities of the Swedish secret police over the years.†   (source)
  • Any day now, any hour perhaps, the stranger would focus his eyes and intelligible words would emerge from his lips.†   (source)
  • Her thought was faint but intelligible.†   (source)
  • The difficulty then was to find a way of conveying the position intelligibly to the man in front of me.†   (source)
  • Then came the faces of the assistants in the Car Service Department, who would neither confirm the report nor deny it, but kept showing her papers, orders, forms, file cards that bore words in the English language, but no connection to intelligible facts.†   (source)
  • After pausing for a moment, she added, On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.†   (source)
  • To Pippin's surprise he found that much of the talk was intelligible many of the Orcs were using ordinary language.†   (source)
  • In fact, that was exactly how Sabina had explained the meaning of her paintings to Tereza: on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth showing through.†   (source)
  • Buz brought out, just intelligibly, "You weren't astonizzhed when I told you about burying a girl in feathers, or pouring syrup over them--"†   (source)
  • Or the horse itself, a white and beautiful one, was on its way over, approaching to ask some favor of him, a request called softly and intelligibly upward-which he was not decided yet whether to grant or deny.†   (source)
  • Yet the answer did not seem sensible, intelligible.†   (source)
  • He can talk quite intelligibly if he wants to.†   (source)
  • This time his mother's words were entirely in Yiddish and completely intelligible.†   (source)
  • Conway, who had often had similar feelings when calling on new arrivals at foreign consulates, thought it a very intelligible attitude.†   (source)
  • …was at once profoundly annoying and comic: as he sat in the middle of the floor and watched them enter, seeing the face of each transformed by a foolish leer, and hearing their voices become absurd and sentimental whenever they addressed him, speaking to him words which he did not yet understand, but which he saw they were mangling in the preposterous hope of rendering intelligible that which has been previously mutilated, he had to laugh at the fools, in spite of his vexation.†   (source)
  • It was as if it became altogether intelligible; I had a feeling of transparency in words when they cease to be words and become so intensified that one seems to experience them; to foretell them as if they developed what one is already feeling.†   (source)
  • The cyclical movement of history was now intelligible, or appeared to be so; and if it was intelligible, then it was alterable.†   (source)
  • I felt that if I could get his story I would make known some of the difficulties inherent in the adjustment of a folk people to an urban environment; I would make his life more intelligible to others than it was to himself.†   (source)
  • …the butcher's son, who had all the rich adventures of the Rover Boys; he ransacked Gant's shelves at home, reading translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey at the same time as Diamond Dick, Buffalo Bill, and the Algers, and for the same reason; then, as the first years waned and the erotic gropings became more intelligible, he turned passionately to all romantic legendry, looking for women in whom blood ran hotly, whose breath was honey, and whose soft touch a spurting train of fire.†   (source)
  • It's a process, sane and intelligible enough—"†   (source)
  • Nothing very intelligible, and even less so the more he drank.†   (source)
  • "Sick," repeated Eschtah, whose English was intelligible.†   (source)
  • Even this became less and less intelligible until the time when Miss Sullivan began to teach me.†   (source)
  • Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathised at least a little with him.†   (source)
  • Could a few intelligible words, Shefford wondered, have created that strange, listening posture?†   (source)
  • Pilchuck shouted an order that was not intelligible in the cracking of firearms.†   (source)
  • They say one ought to be at all costs intelligible, and sacrifice—†   (source)
  • One could intelligibly break one's heart over that.†   (source)
  • 'I guessed he uttered those words, at least, though his voice was hardly intelligible.†   (source)
  • There is no danger of your not being intelligible, which is the first thing.†   (source)
  • It is a restful group, —one never looks for more; it is all here, all intelligible.†   (source)
  • Her mother would talk of her views in the same intelligible tone.†   (source)
  • Much to his amazement, the harpooner seemed no more intelligible than I had been.†   (source)
  • It further happened that Mrs Plornish, not being philosophical, was intelligible.†   (source)
  • It may make many things intelligible and excusable which now are not to be understood.†   (source)
  • Volumnia, do I make myself intelligible?†   (source)
  • Up to that moment, this youthful savage had not expressed a single intelligible emotion, or fancy.†   (source)
  • The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on.†   (source)
  • But, let me ask ye, sir, have you been as intelligible to the girl?†   (source)
  • At length, looking aside to see if he has made himself intelligible, he finds that he is alone.†   (source)
  • Harriet could not very soon give an intelligible account.†   (source)
  • In a thick crowd of sounds, but still intelligibly enough to be understood.†   (source)
  • "See that you thank him intelligibly for the wine," my grandfather warned his two sisters-in-law; "you know how good it is, and it is a huge case."†   (source)
  • VII I got hold of Mrs. Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give no intelligible account of how I fought out the interval.†   (source)
  • —Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.†   (source)
  • Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.†   (source)
  • 'The Frenchman hailed, could get no intelligible reply, and after ascertaining through his binoculars that the crowd on deck did not look plague-stricken, decided to send a boat.†   (source)
  • The cowboy spoke low; only a few words were intelligible—"stirrups… wait… out of town… mountain… trail … now ride!"†   (source)
  • In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady."†   (source)
  • But if we regard it as an experiment, inspired by the fear of committing new sacrilege, then this number six becomes intelligible.†   (source)
  • Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible.†   (source)
  • But the ear, baffled repeatedly, soon lost any clue, and wandered in a maze of noises, none harsh or unpleasant, none intelligible.†   (source)
  • Thus his jealousy did even more than the happy, passionate desire which he had originally felt for Odette had done to alter Swann's character, completely changing, in the eyes of the world, even the outward signs by which that character had been intelligible.†   (source)
  • He echoed her words slowly, as though they were only half-intelligible and he wanted time to repeat the question to himself.†   (source)
  • Lily, well-versed in the language of these omissions, knew that they were equally intelligible to the other members of the party: even Rosedale, flushed as he was with the importance of keeping such company, at once took the temperature of Mrs. Trenor's cordiality, and reflected it in his off-hand greeting of Miss Bart.†   (source)
  • Well, if you insist on asking me why I behave in this absurd way, I can only reply that you asked me to, and that in any case my treatment of the subject may be valid for the artist, amusing to the amateur, and at least intelligible and therefore possibly suggestive to the Philistine.†   (source)
  • Temperance, tolerance, and sexual equality were intelligible cries to them; whereas they did not follow our Forward Policy in Tibet with the keen attention that it merits, and would at times dismiss the whole British Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh.†   (source)
  • Swann had read quite plainly at the beginning of the line "I was right," but did not understand what Odette had been right in doing, until suddenly a word which he had not been able, at first, to decipher, came to light and made the whole sentence intelligible: "I was right to open the door; it was my uncle."†   (source)
  • My information was fragmentary, but I've fitted the pieces together, and there is enough of them to make an intelligible picture.†   (source)
  • …and sweetness—as of carnation-petals—which, he supposed, would greet his lips there, should he ever hazard an embrace, but regarded it rather as a skein of subtle and lovely silken threads, which his gazing eyes collected and wound together, following the curving line from the skein to the ball, where he mingled the cadence of her neck with the spring of her hair and the droop of her eyelids, as though from a portrait of herself, in which her type was made clearly intelligible.†   (source)
  • And my aunt Flora, who realised that this veiled utterance was Celine's way of thanking Swann intelligibly for the Asti, looked at him with a blend of congratulation and irony, either just, because she wished to underline her sister's little epigram, or because she envied Swann his having inspired it, or merely because she imagined that he was embarrassed, and could not help having a little fun at his expense.†   (source)
  • Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog.†   (source)
  • The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.†   (source)
  • If I was to say anything on this slavery matter, I would say out, fair and square, 'We're in for it; we've got 'em, and mean to keep 'em,—it's for our convenience and our interest;' for that's the long and short of it,—that's just the whole of what all this sanctified stuff amounts to, after all; and I think that it will be intelligible to everybody, everywhere."†   (source)
  • He pictured his Seryozha with a huge cigar, a yard long, in the midst of clouds of tobacco smoke, and this caricature made him smile; at the same time, the grave, troubled face of the governess called up memories of the long past, half-forgotten time when smoking aroused in his teachers and parents a strange, not quite intelligible horror.†   (source)
  • I will not pursue these guesses--for I have no right to call them more--since the shades of reflection upon which they are based are scarcely of sufficient depth to be appreciable by my own intellect, and since I could not pretend to make them intelligible to the understanding of another.†   (source)
  • A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them.†   (source)
  • Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape—far-reaching proofs productive of genuine satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Of course, she was the first to speak—intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous "Oh, yes!" were not of a coherent or reportable character.†   (source)
  • At times he spoke intelligibly, though his lips oftener moved in utterance of sounds that carried no distinct impressions to the mind.†   (source)
  • But that's perfectly intelligible.†   (source)
  • Henry was most happy to make it more intelligible, by beginning at an earlier stage, and explaining very particularly what he had done.†   (source)
  • These outbreaks of a fierce temper had a kind of value, and even comfort for the mother; because there was at least an intelligible earnestness in the mood, instead of the fitful caprice that so often thwarted her in the child's manifestations.†   (source)
  • It was the only intelligible motive.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • To express satisfaction the Casterbridge market-man added to his utterance a broadening of the cheeks, a crevicing of the eyes, a throwing back of the shoulders, which was intelligible from the other end of the street.†   (source)
  • It occurred to Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might be far less serviceable, as being meant to be far less intelligible.†   (source)
  • "He is in 'an intelligible condition'!†   (source)
  • Having once mastered the true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences.†   (source)
  • I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant, unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.†   (source)
  • This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.†   (source)
  • But when Le Renard raised his voice in a long and intelligible whoop, it was answered by a spontaneous yell from the mouth of every Indian within hearing of the sound.†   (source)
  • The first object and one of the principal advantages of religions, is to furnish to each of these fundamental questions a solution which is at once clear, precise, intelligible to the mass of mankind, and lasting.†   (source)
  • It is so clear and intelligible.†   (source)
  • Indeed the last word was not quite intelligible to the guide, and he confessed his ignorance by the usual,— "Anan?"†   (source)
  • He gave her a very plain, intelligible account of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great deal of most characteristic proceeding.†   (source)
  • If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification.†   (source)
  • I will make myself intelligible.†   (source)
  • She had met him, he said, with a serious—certainly a serious—even an agitated air; but before he had been able to speak one intelligible sentence, she had introduced the subject in a manner which he owned had shocked him.†   (source)
  • Another low, deriding laugh passed among the young men, announcing, in a manner sufficiently intelligible, their readiness to undertake a task even more arduous.†   (source)
  • The chief point now was to keep watch over him as long as there was any danger of that intelligible raving, that unaccountable impulse to tell, which seemed to have acted towards Caleb Garth; and Bulstrode felt much anxiety lest some such impulse should come over him at the sight of Lydgate.†   (source)
  • "If you are in an intelligible condition, I've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions.†   (source)
  • He was interrupted by the sheriff, who put a few direct questions to him, that obtained more intelligible answers, by which means he became possessed of a tolerably correct idea of the truth, When the wonder, and we must do Richard the justice to say, the feelings also, that were created by this narrative, had in some degree subsided, the sheriff turned his eyes again on his journal, where more inexplicable hieroglyphics met his view.†   (source)
  • And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause!"†   (source)
  • 'I trust I rendered tolerably intelligible my appointment for the morning of this day week, at the house of public entertainment at Canterbury, where Mrs. Micawber and myself had once the honour of uniting our voices to yours, in the well-known strain of the Immortal exciseman nurtured beyond the Tweed.†   (source)
  • In the former were many good paintings; but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy's, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible.†   (source)
  • What I was chained to, and how heavily, became intelligible to me, as I heard his hoarse voice, and sat looking up at his furrowed bald head with its iron gray hair at the sides.†   (source)
  • Below Macon the world grows darker; for now we approach the Black Belt,—that strange land of shadows, at which even slaves paled in the past, and whence come now only faint and half-intelligible murmurs to the world beyond.†   (source)
  • "One district's enough, and Sviazhsky's obviously of the opposition," he said, words evidently intelligible to all except Levin.†   (source)
  • "All right, all right …. speak more intelligibly, don't hurry; above all, don't leave anything out!"†   (source)
  • During his walk home his most intelligible sensation was that his scheme had somehow become glorified.†   (source)
  • …between the lords of the soil, and those oppressed inferior beings by whom that soil was cultivated, occasioned the gradual formation of a dialect, compounded betwixt the French and the Anglo-Saxon, in which they could render themselves mutually intelligible to each other; and from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been so happily blended together; and which has since been so richly…†   (source)
  • It was very faint and low; so indistinct that there seemed but half a will to shape out the words, and too undefined a purport to be intelligible.†   (source)
  • But that evening Jo fancied that Beth's eyes rested on the lively, dark face beside her with peculiar pleasure, and that she listened with intense interest to an account of some exciting cricket match, though the phrases, 'caught off a tice', 'stumped off his ground', and 'the leg hit for three', were as intelligible to her as Sanskrit.†   (source)
  • When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible: "How goes it, Jacques?"†   (source)
  • And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue — neither French nor Latin.†   (source)
  • 'This man,' said Ralph, in a voice scarcely intelligible, 'this man claims his wife, and he shall have her.'†   (source)
  • This time he fell on his knees, and, clasping his hands convulsively, uttered a prayer intelligible to God alone.†   (source)
  • An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country; makes them intelligible and agreeable to each other, and is somewhat so precise, that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign,[376] cannot be any casual product, but must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.†   (source)
  • With thanks for the honour of your note, I remain, dear Miss Crawford, etc., etc." The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.†   (source)
  • A dark look came over Hutter at the announcement of this fact, and he muttered his dissatisfaction in a way to render it intelligible enough.†   (source)
  • The answer of Eau-douce was not very intelligible, nor was the murmured dialogue that followed remarkable for coherency.†   (source)
  • They compose an ardent epistle, a declaration in fact, and they carry the letter upstairs themselves, so as to elucidate whatever might appear not perfectly intelligible in the letter.†   (source)
  • That, he seemed on the point of being at once released, when the tide in his favour met with some unexplained check (not intelligible to the Doctor), which led to a few words of secret conference.†   (source)
  • Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville.†   (source)
  • My earnestness awoke a wonder in her that seemed as if it would have been touched with compassion, if she could have rendered me at all intelligible to her own mind.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Then, with sighs which were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled across the court-yard, and falling into the arms of his valet, he said in a voice scarcely intelligible,—"Home, home."†   (source)
  • Still the hags made no other answer, than by increasing their speed in the circle, and occasionally raising the threatening expressions of their chant, into louder and more intelligible strains.†   (source)
  • …he had occupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait for him, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost — the in— definable impossibility of separating him from the place, and feeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in — the lazy hush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish with which our people talked about it, and other people came in and out all day, and gorged themselves with the subject — this is easily intelligible to anyone.†   (source)
  • After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station.†   (source)
  • It happened, fortunately for the elucidation of any intelligible result, that Mr Dorrit had heard or read nothing about the matter.†   (source)
  • In neither case—however we may change our point of view, however plain we may make to ourselves the connection between the man and the external world, however inaccessible it may be to us, however long or short the period of time, however intelligible or incomprehensible the causes of the action may be—can we ever conceive either complete freedom or complete necessity.†   (source)
  • By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being coherent.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Cadwallader's eyes, diverted from the churchyard, saw a good deal of dumb show which was not so intelligible to her as she could have desired, and could not repress the question, "Who is Mr. Ladislaw?"†   (source)
  • 'Me, Peg, me,' said Arthur Gride, tapping himself on the breast to render the reply more intelligible.†   (source)
  • The only intelligible meaning in this sky-backed pantomime of silhouettes was that the woman had no relation to the forms who had taken her place, was sedulously avoiding these, and had come thither for another object than theirs.†   (source)
  • …attached to Oriental literature, equal to that produced by Mr Galland's first translation of the Arabian Tales; in which, retaining on the one hand the splendour of Eastern costume, and on the other the wildness of Eastern fiction, he mixed these with just so much ordinary feeling and expression, as rendered them interesting and intelligible, while he abridged the long-winded narratives, curtailed the monotonous reflections, and rejected the endless repetitions of the Arabian original.†   (source)
  • They both appeared to derive a larger amount of satisfaction from the cautious character of Mr Pancks, than was quite intelligible, judged by the surface of their conversation.†   (source)
  • One of their number now called aloud, in words that were far from appalling, though not more intelligible to those for whose ears they were intended, than their expressive yells.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wickham began to speak on more general topics, Meryton, the neighbourhood, the society, appearing highly pleased with all that he had yet seen, and speaking of the latter with gentle but very intelligible gallantry.†   (source)
  • …by every man, is understood by us only to the extent to which we know the laws of inevitability to which it is subject (from the first knowledge that all bodies have weight, up to Newton's law), so too the force of free will, incomprehensible in itself but of which everyone is conscious, is intelligible to us only in as far as we know the laws of inevitability to which it is subject (from the fact that every man dies, up to the knowledge of the most complex economic and historic laws).†   (source)
  • — She heard Patty announcing it; but no such bustle succeeded as poor Miss Bates had before made so happily intelligible.†   (source)
  • The sun had actually set; no intelligence had been received from the boats, and Mabel ascended to the roof to take a last look, hoping that the party would arrive in the darkness; which would at least prevent the Indians from rendering their ambuscade so fatal as it might otherwise prove, and which possibly might enable her to give some more intelligible signal, by means of fire, than it would otherwise be in her power to do.†   (source)
  • He had already explained to her that his concealment from herself of the name he had relinquished, was the one condition—fully intelligible now—that her father had attached to their betrothal, and was the one promise he had still exacted on the morning of their marriage.†   (source)
  • There was a great stage, too, looking very clean and smooth after the streets; and there were people upon it, talking about something or other, but not at all intelligibly.†   (source)
  • Harkee, Master Deerslayer, since we are on the subject, we may as well open our minds to each other in a man-to-man way; answer me one question; you have had so much luck among the game as to have gotten a title, it would seem, but did you ever hit anything human or intelligible: did you ever pull trigger on an inimy that was capable of pulling one upon you?†   (source)
  • His hound, stopping now and then to catch the expression of his eye, had preceded the trapper throughout the whole distance, with as much certainty as though a previous and intelligible communion between them had established the route by which they were to proceed.†   (source)
  • Repeating these last words with great rapture and enthusiasm, the old gentleman put on his black velvet cap again, and looking up into the sky in a hasty manner, said something that was not quite intelligible concerning a balloon he expected, and which was rather after its time.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the less I say of these sick experiences, the less tedious and the more intelligible I shall be.†   (source)
  • This anecdote, so strikingly illustrative of the opulence of milliners, was not received with any great demonstration of feeling, inasmuch as Kate hung down her head while it was relating, and Ralph manifested very intelligible symptoms of extreme impatience.†   (source)
  • On a balance of the account, however, it may be doubted whether he lost much; for, although he found no property, he found so many debts and various associations of discredit with the proper name, which was the only word he made intelligible, that he was almost everywhere overwhelmed with injurious accusations.†   (source)
  • Starting, as if suddenly self-convicted of forgetfulness, the chief next turned his eyes on Ellen, where they lingered an instant with a much more intelligible expression of admiration, and then pursued their course until they had taken another glance at each individual of the party.†   (source)
  • "I cannot make speeches, Emma:" he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.†   (source)
  • Only by renouncing our claim to discern a purpose immediately intelligible to us, and admitting the ultimate purpose to be beyond our ken, may we discern the sequence of experiences in the lives of historic characters and perceive the cause of the effect they produce (incommensurable with ordinary human capabilities), and then the words chance and genius become superfluous.†   (source)
  • The strains rose just so loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as if borne away by a passing breath of wind.†   (source)
  • As a promising way of setting them right, half of the half-dozen had become members of a fantastic sect of Convulsionists, and were even then considering within themselves whether they should foam, rage, roar, and turn cataleptic on the spot—thereby setting up a highly intelligible finger-post to the Future, for Monseigneur's guidance.†   (source)
  • So much engaged were they all with the struggle and its consequences, that the canoe was unseen, though it still lay so near the shore as to render every syllable that was uttered perfectly intelligible to the Delaware and his betrothed; and the whole party left the spot, some continuing the pursuit after Hist, along the beach, though most proceeded to the light.†   (source)
  • He moves more; he is beginning to revive, and to speak intelligibly; he thinks they are still together; he asks him, by his name, what he has in his hand.†   (source)
  • Arthur Gride in reply repeated the word 'bell' as loud as he could roar; and, his meaning being rendered further intelligible to Mrs Sliderskew's dull sense of hearing by pantomime expressive of ringing at a street-door, Peg hobbled out, after sharply demanding why he hadn't said there was a ring before, instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it, and keeping her half-pint of beer waiting on the steps.†   (source)
  • After which he continued, in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language: "After the loss of the boy I turned upon the Hurons, as you may judge.†   (source)
  • Though his glance wandered, for moments, from her countenance to the more intelligible and yet extraordinary charms of Ellen, it did not fail to return promptly to the study of a creature who, in the view of his unpractised eye and untutored imagination, was formed with all that perfection, with which the youthful poet is apt to endow the glowing images of his brain.†   (source)
  • He then, softening the nature of his old apprehensions as much as was possible consistently with their being made intelligible and never alluding to his mother by name, but speaking vaguely of a relation of his, confided to Mr Pancks a broad outline of the misgivings he entertained, and of the interview he had witnessed.†   (source)
  • She had hoped for an answer here—for a few words to say that her conduct was at least intelligible; but he was silent; and, as far as she could judge, deep in thought.†   (source)
  • She had not failed to recollect, either, how much more agreeable she could render his situation if she were his friend, and how much more disagreeable if she were his enemy; and, doubtless, many less scrupulous young gentlemen than Nicholas would have encouraged her extravagance had it been only for this very obvious and intelligible reason.†   (source)
  • MY DEAR MADAM, "If I made myself intelligible yesterday, this letter will be expected; but expected or not, I know it will be read with candour and indulgence.†   (source)
  • Though the figurative language of David was not very intelligible, the sincere and steady expression of his eye, and the glow of his honest countenance, were not easily mistaken.†   (source)
  • The scout, to whom alone, of all the white men, the words were intelligible, suffered himself to be a little aroused from his meditative posture, and bent his face aside, to catch their meaning, as the girls proceeded.†   (source)
  • "—Then having recourse to her workbasket, in excuse for leaning down her face, and concealing all the exquisite feelings of delight and entertainment which she knew she must be expressing, she added, "Well, now tell me every thing; make this intelligible to me.†   (source)
  • …dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle with a soiled glove twisted round the neck, to allow of its being grasped more surely in its capacity of an offensive weapon; a broken cane; a card-case without the top; an empty purse; a watch-guard snapped asunder; a handful of silver, mingled with fragments of half-smoked cigars, and their stale and crumbled ashes;—these, and many other tokens of riot and disorder, hinted very intelligibly at the nature of last night's gentlemanly frolics.†   (source)
  • When perfect silence was again restored, and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the patriarch arose, and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English: "Which of my prisoners is La Longue Carabine?"†   (source)
  • …the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the affair was so glorious—the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's—smiles and blushes rising in importance— with consciousness and agitation richly scattered—the lady had been so easily impressed—so sweetly disposed—had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally contented.†   (source)
  • The tribe consented to act with deliberation, and with one voice they committed the direction of the whole affair to the government of the chief who had suggested such wise and intelligible expedients.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and understood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.†   (source)
  • I doubted it more the next day on Box Hill; when, provoked by such conduct on my side, such shameful, insolent neglect of her, and such apparent devotion to Miss W., as it would have been impossible for any woman of sense to endure, she spoke her resentment in a form of words perfectly intelligible to me.†   (source)
  • In such cases he made use of English, broken and imperfect, but sufficiently intelligible, and which he rendered so mild and musical, by his deep, guttural voice, that it never failed to cause both ladies to look up in admiration and astonishment.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to describe the music of their language, while thus engaged in laughter and endearments, in such a way as to render it intelligible to those whose ears have never listened to its melody.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER III Emma could not forgive her;—but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma.†   (source)
  • The scout had stood, while making his observations, sheltered by a brake, and his companions still lay in the bed of the ravine, through which the smaller stream debouched; but on hearing his low, though intelligible, signal the whole party stole up the bank, like so many dark specters, and silently arranged themselves around him.†   (source)
  • Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud: "Look you, Delaware," she said, snapping her fingers in his face; "your nation is a race of women, and the hoe is better fitted to your hands than the gun.†   (source)
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