All 9 Uses of
intelligible
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- 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.†
Chpt 2.7
- Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog.†
Chpt 2.11 *
- 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?"†
Chpt 2.23
- For a few moments there was a pause, and a hurry, and a murmur, and the unintelligible sound of his voice; and then Mr. Lorry saw him, surrounded by all, and in the midst of a line of twenty men long, all linked shoulder to shoulder, and hand to shoulder, hurried out with cries of—"Live the Bastille prisoner!†
Chpt 3.2
- 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.†
Chpt 3.4
- 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.†
Chpt 3.13
- Carton looked at the pen and saw it was trailing off into unintelligible signs.†
Chpt 3.13
- 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.†
Chpt 3.13
- Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
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(intelligible) capable of being understood