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  • Kehaar had had a violent quarrel with a kestrel, screaming insults in a voice fit to startle a Cornish harbor: and although it had ended inconclusively, the kestrel seemed likely to regard the neighborhood of the hanger with healthy respect for the future.†   (source)
  • The treatment protocol was long and elaborate and—worst of all—maddeningly inconclusive.†   (source)
  • "Tons of partials, Lindsay," the CSU chief replied, meaning inconclusive prints his team had lifted from the room.†   (source)
  • The extent of her injuries made the tests for sexual activity inconclusive.†   (source)
  • We all conferred that night, but inconclusively.†   (source)
  • He had always regarded thoughts and words as inconclusive, but a material shape was that which he had spent his life escaping: a commitment.†   (source)
  • The magazine was folded open to a page on which there was a sketch of a bearded man, the lines rough, inconclusive, as if drawn from an obscure description.†   (source)
  • They last only a short time, the results are often inconclusive, and they are remembered… on paper.†   (source)
  • So unsatisfying, so inconclusive.†   (source)
  • Yet the autopsy will be inconclusive.†   (source)
  • So our interview ended inconclusively.†   (source)
  • The evidence they got was inconclusive.†   (source)
  • A study was done, but the findings were inconclusive.
  • I don't understand—how could inconclusive test results be dangerous?†   (source)
  • He and I both transferred from Erudite, only his aptitude test was inconclusive.†   (source)
  • The autopsy on Jill was inconclusive, and the cause of death had not been determined.†   (source)
  • However inconclusive, the articles did help Jeremy clarify his own thoughts.†   (source)
  • The photos, the sightings were inconclusive.†   (source)
  • Half-grown children would come to class from the barricades, smelling of gunpowder, wearing the insignias and uniforms of rebel officers captured at gunpoint in inconclusive battles, and carrying their regulation weapons in full view at their waists.†   (source)
  • "They were inconclusive," I say softly.†   (source)
  • The men who, through the decades of their careers, had relied for their security upon keeping their faces blank, their words inconclusive and their clothes impeccable, were thrown off-key by the sweaters stretched over their stomachs, by the mufflers wound about their necks, by the sound of coughing that cut through the discussion too frequently, like the rattle of a machine gun.†   (source)
  • There's an inconclusive print on the trigger'probably smudged when your suspect dropped it, but I can't say that for certain.†   (source)
  • He had spent hours at the police station, his first stop after leaving Alex's house, scrutinizing the enlarged fingerprint that had been on Gun B. An inconclusive one; one that he'd assumed, lazily, to be Peter's.†   (source)
  • Every sighting of him was inconclusive.†   (source)
  • No lights were visible on shore, but as there were no towns and few roads in the district that evidence was inconclusive.†   (source)
  • And we let the argument drop, each for different reasons, thinking it had been inconclusive.†   (source)
  • So far as he had had experience of women at all, it had been tentative, intermittent, and somewhat inconclusive.†   (source)
  • But I felt no need for these sophistries as I sat before my cousin, saw him, freed from his inconclusive struggle with Pindar, in his dark gray suit, his white tie, his scholar's gown; heard his grave tones and, all the time, savored the gillyflowers in full bloom under my windows.†   (source)
  • I said it was certainly inconclusive, and asked if the names Karakal and Shangri-La had meant anything to the American.†   (source)
  • He talked thus inconclusively until at last I felt my temper going.†   (source)
  • During these days, in a rambling, inconclusive way, I thought much of the curate and of the manner of his death.†   (source)
  • Lyons," said I, as I rose from this long and inconclusive interview, "you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to find, now that my prize was within my grasp, how inconclusive its attainment seemed.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X The heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the inconclusive talk.†   (source)
  • I was so slow to find anything that he had plenty of time, after a minute, to continue with his suggestive but inconclusive smile: "You know, my dear, that for a fellow to be with a lady ALWAYS—!"†   (source)
  • We looked on, waiting patiently—there was nothing else to do till the end of the flood; but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, "I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit," that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences.†   (source)
  • It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.†   (source)
  • Finally, we have the evidence of a combination of facts very suggestive, though, I admit, inconclusive.†   (source)
  • This invention was bound to be inconclusive, for both figures were needed later in the saga—Paris must kill Akhilleus, and Menelaos must take Helen home at last.†   (source)
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