All 28 Uses
ineffable
in
Les Miserables
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- She had never been pretty, even when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning.†
Chpt 1.2
- It remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- The most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and supplying the vanished universe to you.†
Chpt 1.5
- She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.†
Chpt 1.5
- Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice.†
Chpt 1.7
- But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep.†
Chpt 1.8
- The point as to which there exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb.†
Chpt 1.8
- Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together into a sort of ineffable light.†
Chpt 2.4
- All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible.†
Chpt 2.5
- On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume.†
Chpt 2.8
- His task finished, he returns to ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes in the mire; his head in the light.†
Chpt 3.5
- The old man talked but little, and, at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity.†
Chpt 3.6
- He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice."†
Chpt 3.6
- One evening, at dusk, he had found, on the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume.†
Chpt 3.6
- An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise without being conscious of it.†
Chpt 4.3
- On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did not immediately understand.†
Chpt 4.3
- Jean Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's coldness,—all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim.†
Chpt 4.4
- After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is impossible, even to God.†
Chpt 4.5
- By virtue of something ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his eyes which she could not see.†
Chpt 4.5
- It was the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal.†
Chpt 4.8
- It was what is said in the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart.†
Chpt 4.8
- They might have torn out his nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable name, Cosette, was composed.†
Chpt 4.8
- M. Gillenormand's mobile face was no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature.†
Chpt 4.8
- An ineffable moment ensued.†
Chpt 5.5
- But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the cloud did not last long.†
Chpt 5.5
- Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality.†
Chpt 5.6
- When two mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering throughout the immense mystery of stars.†
Chpt 5.6
- She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: "There was once a King and a Queen.†
Chpt 5.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(ineffable) something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, ineffable can describe something that cannot be said due to social custom--such as the name of God.