| 单词 | ineffably |
| 例句 | Under the inmates’ surface bluster, their cruelty and selfishness, was almost always something ineffably sad. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Grand Canyon is life-altering in person, ineffably beyond what you expect from photography or description. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z All that said, there was something ineffably comforting about that bottle of warm, claggy milk every morning. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z In place of Horne's ineffably silvery soprano, McCann offered a deeper, darker, throatier sound. 'A Christmas Surprise' from Tammy McCann, thanks to Billy Strayhorn 2010-12-19T13:24:00Z All this makes an ineffably strange combination with the fear and the violence and the bizarre sociopathy. Cannes 2012: Sightseers – review 2012-05-24T11:59:47Z Apologies to the queen of draping, but Scorecard knows Jason Wu proved it’s possible to get ineffably clean lines and to embellish with a spot of lace — or 15. | Jason Wu Wins! 2011-02-13T03:32:44Z But surely no one else has provided the ineffably maternal mixture of fire, ice, earth and just a dash of sea salt with which the 81-year-old Ms. Dukakis endows the part. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ Presented by Shakespeare & Company 2012-07-30T22:19:52Z Then the sound grows, divided as if by a prism into many lines, and the music embarks on a reluctant, ineffably tender descent. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Something in the chaotic thwartedness of his character's adoration for Monroe brought out the comic charm of his personality, which remained ineffably boyish. Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood star 2010-09-30T13:11:00Z First she literally awakens, in an ineffably eerie, dimly lighted scene. In ‘The Amazing Catfish,’ a Woman Is Thrust Into a Family 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In his ineffably moving sonnet "On His Blindness", Milton does not talk of his own sightlessness; rather, he turns an inner eye on "this dark world and wide". Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z Leonard the composer made a hallowed melody of her, both implausibly intimate and ineffably spacious.” Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z With his puckishness and fast motor, he remains an almost ineffably appealing presence. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z And it is how Joey is summoned into being, along with an assortment of other animals, that gives this production its ineffably theatrical magic. | 'War Horse': A Boy and His Steed, Far From Humane Society 2011-04-15T02:01:02Z She sang Zerlina in a school production of “Don Giovanni” when she was just 13, and while she made a mistake — the performance even needed to be briefly stopped — it was ineffably right. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z As the story progresses, there are violent explosions and simmering fogs of sound, out of which the voices emerge, emoting at their extremes but ineffably human, too. Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Building ineffably toward a howling peak, the piece conveyed potent sensations of questing trajectory and philosophical intensity. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z Here was a group of ineffably refined paintings that felt hard-won yet unstudied, perfectly poised yet bristling with life. An Appraisal: Scott Rothkopf, Chief Curator at the Whitney, Recalls Ellsworth Kelly 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z By the end we feel that everything that’s going on — privately and publicly, personally and politically — is inextricably and ineffably connected. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z The effect is alternately informative, sobering and weirdly optimistic and ineffably touching. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z From the start of his career, Cimino filmed in the future anterior tense: looking ineffably far ahead, he was already looking back in horror, and a cursed solitude would be his prophetic burden. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z They just knew they were supposed to want to be princesses. In the end, the dresses came off, so did the masks, and the naked horses returned to their free, frolicking, and ineffably colored selves. Thomas the Tank Engine, neocolonial fantasy: What his new international pals, and the backlash against them, signal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Parker, the guitarist in Tortoise, released the most ineffably soulful instrumental album of the summer: “The New Breed,” a convergence of loopy beats and melodic suggestion. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z And yet, for the ineffably eurocentric reasons I was describing earlier, you keep watching and waiting for the surprise. PBS’s ‘The Escape Artist’: When blandness is the perfect defense Musically this makes for ineffably compelling listening, startling and engaging at every turn. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This is the balance in Shakespeare’s comedies too, but opera adds the ability of music to shift the mood instantly and ineffably. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z Schulz instinctively allowed just the tiniest bit of realism back into their proportions and postures, and somehow, I think, ineffably shaped them within the idiosyncrasies of his own handwriting. The Debt That All Cartoonists Owe to “Peanuts” 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z What they shared was that ineffably American knack for experimenting and stirring the pot, for trying out harebrained ideas and pushing homemade contraptions to their limits. Review | A look at the two men who turned up the volume on rock music 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The stillness was ineffably beautiful and infinitely sad. In Morocco, Exploring Remnants of Jewish History 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z That is to say, they’ve created unfamiliar worlds that somehow feel deeply, ineffably familiar — the sort of places that you visit as you’re falling asleep. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Crowe nails every aria with a pure, peachy soprano that inhabits every phrase to ineffably touching effect. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z It was at Lagerfeld’s place and in outposts like Le Drugstore and the ineffably seedy disco Club Sept that Mr. Lopez seemed best to fulfill his role as a creative catalyst. Drawn Again to the Images of the Illustrator Antonio Lopez 2012-08-29T22:01:48Z With direction from old pro James Burrows, “Will & Grace” proves that a good, old-school sitcom is still a worthy and engaging endeavor, depending ineffably on chemistry and timing. Review | ‘Will & Grace’ are back, mostly to snark about life in Trump’s America 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z In fact, they more closely resembled the stuff you still see on playboys in places like the ineffably stylish Il Pellicano Hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z Her assurance to Alfredo’s father that she would step aside from her romance with his son to protect the honor of the Germont family was ineffably touching, her death scene even more so. Critic’s Notebook: Nature’s Power Meets Star Power in Santa Fe 2013-08-07T20:33:01Z This is a collection of works of the kind, one suspects, that make a musician want to take up the guitar and, well, play: virtuosic, flamboyant, dashing and, sometimes ineffably lyrical. Classical Playlist: J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Wu Man and More 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z In a sense, Lincoln and Donovan are uncompromising figures in history, one completely obscure and the other almost ineffably famous. Steven Spielberg on the Cold War and Other Hollywood Front Lines 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z There’s resentment, fear and rage, yes, but also a sense that they ineffably belong to this conflicted, unhappy place. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z But this author helped me understand a concept as complex as targeted gene therapy, and what it takes for those afflicted to battle a tenacious, ineffably resilient disease. What book critics are reading: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' and 'Charlie Chan' 2011-01-29T00:47:54Z “Unmasked” does not undo that image, but it brings to center stage the personality of an ineffably British bon vivant. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Whether bearding the classics with hippity-hoppity horns or playing ineffably beautiful sustains on violin, cello and bass, ICP always offers something you didn't expect. ICP Orchestra brings zany Dutch mischief to SAM 2011-04-07T20:50:36Z But the spellbinding sense of ritual that Hepfer's performance conveyed felt ultimately, if ineffably, Spanish. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z For the historical fiction stork has descended from on high with another bundle of ineffably filthy joy. The Borgias: epic silliness 2011-08-12T13:29:17Z And, in an extension of Siah Armajani’s traveling survey at the Met Breuer, the Public Art Fund installed that artist’s ineffably poetic “Bridge Over Tree” on the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “Steez” is a term thrown around a lot lately to describe those who manage to look ineffably stylish seemingly without much effort. Luka Sabbat, the 18-Year-Old Fashion Influencer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The album was the sylvan, ineffably spiritual “Astral Weeks,” released in 1968, when Morrison was 23. 1968 Revisited: A Boston Commune and a Van Morrison Classic 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Throughout, I felt agreeably perplexed and ineffably blissful. Music Review: ‘HPSCHD’ at Eyebeam 2013-05-05T21:28:37Z It’s an ineffably sweet moment that illustrates the pervasive cultural reach of the movie; on my screen two teenage girls popped up, pouring their hearts into their throats in a nondescript bedroom somewhere. Review: In ‘Elements of Oz,’ Smartphones Enhance a Celebration of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Film 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Hanging in the store, among the other ineffably appropriate Hermès wares, the timelessness and extraordinary fabrics will most likely rise to the fore. Flight Risk at Chanel and Saint Laurent 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Gimmick piled upon gimmick, and it was too bad, because it obscured the fact that Mr. Gaultier is still a master at making a sleeveless gold shirtdress and a beige anorak look ineffably chic. New and Old at Armani Privé and Maison Margiela 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z He's as old as ineffably boring Sir Paul McCartney, his regime as venerable as Big Bird. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z It's a bit Carry On, a bit Ealing, quintessentially English, ineffably funny. Beryl and Betty: a very English mixture of intended and unintended comedy 2012-05-18T15:47:59Z And it did; the adjustment ineffably increased the shimmer of the sylvan opening bars. Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra Head to Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z His unchanging expression is ineffably poignant — at once adamant and forlorn, male and female. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “Sometimes you got to do the right thing, not what you want to do,” says Sy in a rare moment of filmed introspection, and there is something ineffably sad in this grateful self-effacement. Movie Review | 'Dancing Across Borders': Anne Bass Documentary on Teenage Ballet Prot?g? From Cambodia 2010-03-26T02:10:00Z His ineffably elegant, tender-tough paintings on salvaged plywood, seen at White Columns in his first formal solo exhibition in New York, are a delight, one of the season’s sleepers. Bill Lynch’s Paintings Get a Show at White Columns 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z This poetic, laconic and ineffably beautiful drama has an unerring feel for its subject, a young cowboy struggling against his implacable fate in the American West. ‘The Rider’ Review: A Cowboy Life in the Balance 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The L.A. hot girl archetype is at once ineffably elusive and immediately identifiable. How to live with the L.A. hot girl mentality, according to the 'Jane Goodall of L.A. hot girls' 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Is this the definition of true luxury — things just being ineffably, subtly yet marvelously better than usual? Seattle’s most expensive hamburger costs $28 at Canlis. Is it worth it? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Although proponents usually insist that they are not racist, they will also conveniently assert that the "values" and "culture" that ineffably "define" America will decline if too many non-whites become full members of American society. Theodore Roosevelt: The "progressive" president who sounded a lot like Donald Trump and Hitler 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Even when exercise is strenuous, it can feel ineffably easier and more enjoyable when the surroundings are glorious. Why an outdoor workout is better for you than indoors 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z And yet in these moments, for reasons as tough to articulate as they are to shake off, it feels ineffably, unmistakably ours. Review: 'Aftersun,' one of the year's great debut films, is a piercing father-daughter story 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z For Van Gogh, green wheat captured a sense of both transience and calm: “Young wheat can have something ineffably pure and gentle about it,” he wrote. You’ve seen ‘Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience.’ Now experience a real Van Gogh. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Shakespeare — and especially his war horses like “Hamlet” and “As You Like It” — is ineffably sturdy. Seattle Shakes rotates ‘Hamlet’ and ‘As You Like It,’ performed by artists of color 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But over the course of this charming, wistful, ineffably tender movie, you also see her learn to embrace the possibility of good in herself and in every precious, unhurried moment. Review: ‘The Worst Person in the World’ has one of the best movie heroines in ages 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z It is the sort of work that some will find ineffably beautiful and others unbearably tiresome. Julianne Moore leaves nothing on the table in 'Lisey's Story.' It's not enough 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The soft, lush texture approaches but then stops short of gumminess in the best way, and you’d probably never put your finger on the presence of dates, just notice an ineffably great taste. New by way of Bellevue, the golden-brown greatness of Afro Dates Pancakes mix is winning fans nationwide 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The book, ineffably sad and beautifully written, tears the tabloid face off the story about an American family that has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Opinion | Hunter Biden, Matt Gaetz and Nonstop Depravity 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z As legally sanctioned segregation ended in the 1960s, intellectuals and activists sought to describe a world in which laws had changed and yet much remained ineffably the same. ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z That’s common in dictatorships, but I find it ineffably sad to breathe tear gas in my beloved home state and to interview Americans with such fears of their own leaders. Opinion | In Portland’s So-Called War Zone, It’s the Troops Who Provide the Menace 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z And this haunting,—ineffably sweet, inexplicably sad,—may fill you with rash desire to wander over the world in search of somebody like her. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It features square-toed shearling-lined mules and clogs, which are in line with the brand’s ethos of taking what might be considered awkward or ugly objects and reframing them as ineffably cool or strangely elegant. Eckhaus Latta fetes Ugg collaboration with foraged food and sweeping L.A. views 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z As the playwright intended, an all female, non-binary cast performs the all-male roles — a device that ineffably but undeniably deepens our connection to what might otherwise have been a standard recapitulation of historical events. SoCal theater, July 14-21: Musical parodies of ‘Friends’ and ‘Lost’ and more 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z It’s an ineffably creepy overview of their own Paris – one of graffiti crews and grim suburbs. The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked! 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Beyond the sustainability of used fleeces, Mr. Williamson finds them “a lot warmer” and ineffably fuzzier than newer models. How the Humble Fleece Jacket Became High Fashion 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Balancing the dominant impact of the mandala is a nested group of seven ovals, crisply outlined in white—ineffably lively—in the three primary colors, the three secondaries, and near-black. Hilma af Klint’s Visionary Paintings 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z At this disquieting moment in time, there is something ineffably heartening about committed and searching artists with diverse skills and imagination. Review: And NOW, for something different at REDCAT 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z ‘The S90 feels premium in its bones: light, stiff, unshakable, ineffably modern. It certainly wowed the neighbors.’ Volvo S90 T8: Luxury, Thy Name is No Longer Lincoln 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The movement has certainly spread to Britain’s Palace of Westminster, in as ineffably pathetic a way as you’d expect. That sound? It’s Westminster’s sex pests rehearsing their excuses | Marina Hyde 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z And I wonder if the common charm of Midwesterners—earnest, un-tangential, ineffably located in the world—derives from this right-angled overlay of Nature. The Chevy SS: A Fine Sports Sedan That Faces Extinction 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Not only was it ineffably tedious, but beetroots are very, very messily red. Are these the world's most boring jobs? | Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The word moni means “gem” in Bengali, but in common usage it also refers to something ineffably beautiful: the shining pinpricks of light in each eye. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The S90 feels premium in its bones: light, stiff, unshakable, ineffably modern. Volvo S90 T8: Luxury, Thy Name is No Longer Lincoln 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z At times they may even cluster in train stations - but are finally, ineffably singular. A Point of View: Phoneless in Paris - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z As Proust knew, there is something about pastries that dredge up memories of childhood and the wonder of first discovering something ineffably delicious. Leave the Laptop at Home 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z Orwell's ideology is ineffably English, a belief in the inherent reasonableness, impartiality and common sense of a certain kind of clear-thinking, public-school-educated but widely experienced middle-class Englishman - an Englishman such as himself. Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z What Ballmer’s wealthy posse is doing in subverting Lakeside solely for their entertainment is ineffably sad. Lakeside basketball: Part of a trend of forgoing students' futures 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Unlike the delusions that spur terrorism, the camaraderie and resilience on display in Boston since Monday’s bomb blasts was ineffably, happily real. A Historian's Take on What the Word 'Terrorism' Means 2013-04-17T01:20:25Z I'm afraid I'm one of those ineffably dreary sorts who doesn't pay cash in hand, gladly operates as well as submits to PAYE, and really can't be doing with tax avoiders at all. With this tax dodger list the Revenue shames only itself 2013-02-22T19:30:02Z And there is something ineffably soothing about dining at Millwright’s. | Simsbury: A Review of Millwright’s, in Simsbury 2012-10-14T03:20:03Z Some kids fall victim to drugs, gangs, mental illness, abuse, or ineffably bad choices. The hard bigotry of poverty: Why ignoring it will doom school reform 2012-07-17T17:50:33Z The man responsible for the megatrade—which earned him the nickname the “London Whale”—has the ineffably Habsburg name of Bruno Iksil. London?s Last Waltz 2012-05-21T05:00:00Z The figure itself is ineffably graceful with pathetic helplessness, but Corona gloriae, victory over the old enemy, surrounds a head of divine peace. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In particular, Thackeray’s bitter fun on the ineffably lackadaisical passage, “My L. has seen a polyanthus blow in December,” is pretty fully justified. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z I was greatly relieved when he resurfaced, thinner than he had been, but ineffably the same, too, looking both engaged and detached, eager and gently amused. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Howard Kissel, A Man Who Relished Culture 2012-03-01T16:03:00Z The meanness of orthodox Christianity permits the husband to be saved, and to be ineffably happy, while the wife of his bosom is suffering the tortures of hell. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Not only beautiful exceedingly, but ineffably grand and striking! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Next to the general effect of the ineffably harmonious blending of hues, the audacious vividness of the hues themselves, red and green and blue and gold and purple, is what first impresses the eye. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z And she has, of course, a right to command me, being my aunt, you know, and—and—the whole thing is ineffably provoking.” Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z I pray you, rejoice in this festival: verily now to-day that glorious maiden ascended to heaven, that she, ineffably exalted with Christ, may for ever reign. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z But all grown persons ineffably distrust one another.... Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z I couldn’t tell you anything about Lutetia—except that she was lovely—ineffably lovely. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Still, something of extra fragrance—something ineffably sweet and delicate—would cling to it for ever, or be for ever just that much lacking, according to the manner of his asking. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Happy, ineffably happy, they who are the subjects of such all-prevailing intercession! Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z Is the thought of him ineffably pleasing and joyful to your soul? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z This process, by which Popish priests and Jesuits often insinuate themselves into the confidence of some of our most respectable Protestant families, has in it something ineffably mean, contemptible and wicked. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z As she rose slowly to her feet that something at once ineffably luxurious and ineffably spiritual which hung about her like the emanation of a perfume stirred uneasily in him and his senses ached. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z They are funereal blossoms, ineffably emblematic of the grave. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z After the torment of the last six months, peace had descended upon her abundantly, ineffably, out of the heavens. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z However, this storm passed away almost as quickly as it had come, and once more the seas calmed down, and sky and waters became brightly, ineffably blue. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z But its song is to my ears ineffably sweet. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z This, brethren, is ineffably precious and edifying for our souls. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z His voice is a little husky, and here and there broken, but ineffably delicious and penetrating, and, as he sings, becomes, without quitting the whisper, dominating and disquieting. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It is ineffably sweet, and brings tears to the eyes. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z A prism was handed to him, through which he could see the rapids in colors ineffably glorious. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z The whole effect was ineffably solemn and awe-inspiring. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z The remembrance of Him in the latter is ineffably precious to the soul. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z The notion of Allen bothering any one to take out a bees’ nest, Sunday or any other day, struck them all as ineffably rich. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Then Scattergood began to dream his last dream, ineffably content. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z How unutterably still it was; how ineffably peaceful. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z This strange and ineffably vulgar mania is as old as the world, and the tombs of the kings at Thebes are scrawled over with inscriptions left there by ancient Greek and Roman visitors. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z This dog looked up at me and smiled ineffably; then he came to the gate and stood over against me, peeping between the slats. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Calm and unhurried, she rested a moment on her stick, with the candle's soft glow about her, a smile ineffably sweet on her face. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z "All right, general," said Stewart, and settled back against the wall, completely, ineffably happy. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology lands March 29 with an ineffably swinging thump. Swing States 2011-04-09T06:30:00Z I was pulled at by impatient little hands, lucid, ineffably pure eyes were turned up to mine, the clear little voices grew louder, "Muvver, muvver, I'm losing my mitten!" Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z It was worthy of him; and it would have succeeded but for that wonderful slice of luck—ineffably blessed luck, indeed—by which I had found the card case. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z The most transcendent genius could not, untaught by that “experience sweet and sad,” have breathed out hymns for her dead soldiers of such ineffably tender, sorrowful, yet triumphant beauty. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z Not stirring, not struggling, not striving; only standing firm and straight and impassive; not taking part, but only watching, knowing no passion but only strength,—ineffably patient and calm. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z He could not look at him without being compelled to renew the struggle with Anne; that infinitely cruel, that ineffably piteous struggle which wrung his own heart, and which would be useless in the end. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z But he soon discovered that the stern Roman character was quite incapable of appreciating a joke, especially when its point was directed against that ineffably sacred thing, the Roman dignity. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z There are some things in life that stand out ineffably sweet and satisfying. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z These personal matters seem ineffably stupid when one sees the dawn appearing over the walls of our prison. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z She had a vague feeling, as of a flood of new, ineffably beautiful melodies being poured over her. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z You are well aware how ineffably I love you, I have always, always, loved you. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Thus she felt ineffably happy, and yet also more seriously inclined than she was accustomed. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z This week, that basement contains a job lot of Eau De Stade, a £19.99 unisex fragrance created to promote a TV firm whose name it would be ineffably vulgar to publicise further. Marina Hyde: Form an orderly queue for World Cup tat 2010-06-02T23:05:00Z The most sensitive mind could not be hurt with any thing in the letter, and yet "Fair Play" talks of "Mr. Morphy's jeremiads appearing something worse than ineffably absurd." The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion There was something ineffably sweet in her countenance, albeit there was a subdued, even sorrowful look as her shapely little head was bent towards her companion, and she was evidently speaking as Charley cantered up. By Birth a Lady "Precisely," said Crump, ineffably self-satisfied; "that was just what I was getting at." The Wonderful Visit Again, the end of the plot comes with the tribute of the bewildered but adoring mother to the ineffably gentle Little Man. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors So with fantastic thoughts and perfect kisses, perfect but yet ineffably vain because they expressed so little of what Michael would have had them express, the hour passed. Sinister Street, vol. 2 At this she looked down at him with smile ineffably tender and drew his head to her bosom and clasping it there stooped soft lips to cheek and brow and wistful eyes. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Nothing so ineffably wise as the Gillyhooly bird ever does live long. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder Imagination began to picture something ineffably timid, shrinking, gentle—something which, blending with Octon's strong rough strain, would issue in this child. The Great Miss Driver No. If God is Love, how can He be ineffably happy and glorious while his sons and daughters are wandering away from Him and the whole world is broken-hearted? Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance Down below, ineffably magical, sounded the squeaking voice of Punch. Carnival It was night when they disembarked; but within and around Roland all was ineffably bright. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine I heard music ineffably tender and sublime, wailing its intoxicating melodies. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar He frequently stooped down to kiss some ragged little children who held the lappets of his robe, and, smiling ineffably, he said to those who surrounded him: 'Let the little children approach me.' The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth And as he spoke he pushed his glass impatiently from him, and looked ineffably annoyed and disgusted. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Tranquil among primordial things, she turns her sphere and ineffably rejoices.’ Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern His eyes beamed with light, and his face was more radiant than the whitest snow; and so ineffably sweet was his countenance, that the friar kissed the feet and the hands of the heavenly child. A Treatise on Relics Electra felt as if she had sworn allegiance not only to some unknown majesty, but to him, and she was ineffably exalted. Rose MacLeod I could not help laughing at the thought, it sounded so ineffably comic. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Dynamite would not appall her, but to me it would be the acme of satisfaction, ineffably supreme, to startle such clods of inanition by a cry of mouse, and electrify them into momentary emotion. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Instead is the revelation of a being purer than purity, excelling excellence, dwelling apart from life, apart from death, ineffably in the solitudes of space. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I was haunted by a whole troop of malignant fears, of dreadful apprehensions about that being, so ineffably dear to me. Francezka The Oriental heavens were wide enough to serve as fastnesses for two sets of hostile, germane, and ineffably poetic aberrations. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal He was introduced; he was civil, he was obliging, he was always ineffably superior and certain of himself; a well-graced actor. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) When he spoke, it was to her as though God really lived on earth; her eyes lighted ineffably, and visibly all else was instantly forgot. Mary Magdalen He lived in a state of pleasant, exciting unrest, sometimes hoping for something so ineffably delightful, that he hardly dared to formulate it even to himself. The Grandee It was that with her cold little brain she imagined him in a fever about her, fretful, tantalised by her coolness, rebuffed, sulky, ineffably tedious.... Coquette How human, how ineffably full of a good child's longing, is not his vision of Paradise! Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion How wondrously, how ineffably beautiful a barmaid appears to us, who have seen no white woman for nearly four months! An Ocean Tramp But the house remains a vision out of a magical book; a thing seen darkly as in a looking-glass; but lovely beyond the dreams of mortals, and ineffably sad. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In speaking of Arnold, I was ineffably amused at hearing Mrs. Grote characterize him as a "very weak man," which struck me as very funny. Records of Later Life There was something so ineffably low and greasy in his tone of addressing her, that it was impossible to be surprised at the disgust which she expressed for him. The Landleaguers There came to his lips the commencement of that strange moribund smile which seems so ineffably satirical of the things of this world. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 The idea of the Lord whispering into a whale's ear is ineffably ludicrous: besides, the whale had a very natural inclination to rid itself of Jonah, and needed no divine prompting. Bible Romances First Series Either this writer is ineffably ignorant, or his impudence is astounding. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Great was his confidence, implicit, sublime, ineffably Irish. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule She allowed them to rest in his broad palms, and, in spite of all her protests, felt ineffably happy. The Hound From The North An ineffably peaceful smile flickered across his face. Once to Every Man Dexter understood himself, and Jessie understood him: such folk make no pretences; they are ineffably real. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Schopenhauer, for instance, he rails at as a "small philosopher." whose ideas were only the "formulation of his own special disease, the expression of his own ineffably petty and uncomfortable disposition." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) I needn’t tell you I believe in marrying for love; but these needs-must marriages are so ineffably silly. Dr. Sevier After dinner he unlocked a branded cedar-wood cabinet, the first that he had ever bought, and looked lovingly at the cigars, rich, dull-brown and ineffably fragrant, bundle pressed shoulder to shoulder with bundle. The Education of Eric Lane One short paragraph, containing two ineffably weak arguments, does the business. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject We were always seeing them eat these haili, which looked something like sprats, and tasted ineffably nasty. Through Finland in Carts There are probably few amongst us who have not, at one time or another, experienced that ineffably exquisite sensation caused by the sudden cessation of intense and wearing pain. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France The ineffably sweet sadness of that last parting must be the recollection he was to carry forth with him. The Sign of the Spider Very commonly Pigault falls into a sort of burlesque melodramatic style, with frequent interludes of horse-play, resembling that of the ineffably dreary persons who knock each others' hats off on the music-hall stage. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 And in precisely the same ineffably endearing relation did Onesimus stand to the apostle. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Ah! for me stands for something ineffably noble, inspiring—not perhaps for what she has done—maybe more for the things she left undone. Terribly Intimate Portraits From the slight glimpses we obtain of the man Montrevel in the course of these deplorable transactions, there seems to have been something ineffably mean and spiteful in his nature. The Huguenots in France No, darling, I am neither tired nor hungry; I am only ineffably happy. Vixen, Volume III. Already there was something sacred and ineffably sweet about her voice and face. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West She tried to return to her old whimsical routine of living alone in her Cloud Cote, but from being a little nook of laughter and love, it became ineffably dreary and dull. Eve to the Rescue Aunt Martha’s arm was around her, and Aunt Martha’s sympathetic and knowing eyes were compelling hers; and her voice was ineffably gentle. The Range Boss "That's Complicated," he said ineffably for how could the wish to escape inordinate grief be expressed? An Apostate: Nawin of Thais "That will be never!" exclaimed Rorie, looking ineffably happy, but not very much like a bride-groom, in his comfortable gray suit. Vixen, Volume III. Lady Eardham could have boxed his ears; but she smiled upon him ineffably, pressed his hand, and in the most natural way in the world alluded to some former allusion about riding and the park. Ralph the Heir Would she never be able to take part in his life with the sweet, smiling sympathy which had always been so ineffably precious to him? The Arbiter A Novel But how ineffably weak and mean did she appear in her own eyes! Deerbrook These are strongly marked by that ineffably fine melodic flavor characteristic of Scottish music, while in the accompaniments they admit a touch of the composer's own individuality. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions There was something ineffably sweet about the disembodied voices sending their triumphant chant up to the stars. 242The sound stopped as suddenly as it began. The Squirrel-Cage And to this day there is something ineffably sweet and whimsically inconsistent to me in an Episcopal saint. A Circuit Rider's Wife The liquid was deliciously cool, and of that peculiar acid and slightly bitter flavour that seems so ineffably refreshing when one is parched with fever. The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so “microscopically” small that—but let us not anticipate. Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago To-day Gloucester was gnawing at his finger nails, big York seemed half-asleep, and the Earl of Derby patiently to await something as yet ineffably remote. Chivalry It was a solemn stillness, but ineffably sweet and tender. A Woman who went to Alaska He smiled ineffably and evidently thought that he was offering us food for the gods. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Gradually, when she saw how mean was the general standard of perfection, how ineffably beneath her own ideal—the man she could have worshiped—she grew quite happy in her own certain lot. Olive A Novel How is it, will any one tell me, that all foreign Clubs are so ineffably stupid? Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General It was the vision of his remedy that now excited him: ineffably, grotesquely simple, it had yet come to him only within a day or two. Embarrassments Before drinking he wiped his face and washed his hands again and again at the basin in the corner, as though there were something on them which was ineffably unclean. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen “I, Beniah?” exclaimed the maiden, with a look of surprise on her pretty face so ineffably innocent that it was obviously hypocritical—insomuch that Beniah laughed, and Branwen was constrained to join him. The Hot Swamp He saw her smile ineffably to her father. The Iron Horse The immortal Goldoni, as they print him in all the play-bills, is ineffably stupid, his characters ill drawn, his plots meagre, and his dialogue as flat as the talk of a three-volume novel. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General They were seated at a table, engaged in examining addresses so illegible, so crabbed, so incomplete, and so ineffably ridiculous, that no man of ordinary mental capacity could make head or tail of them. Post Haste He was half carried to the sofa, and sat there, ineffably humiliated. Clayhanger The tone of the address, so far from being jubilant as the mass of his hearers felt, was ineffably sad. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Yet, notwithstanding this marked dissimilarity in their appearance, there was one point of strong resemblance between them: the expression of their faces, and particularly of their eyes, was ineffably cruel. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story The humour of the story was not very brilliant, yet somehow it seemed to Escombe at that moment to be ineffably amusing, and he laughed aloud at the quaintness of the conceit. Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Dollops—the little girl above referred to—was particularly small and shy, ineffably stupid, and remarkably fat. Post Haste Each has its expression, its ineffably tender idea, not more clearly formulized, it is true, than those which music conveys, yet quite as delicious. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Finally one decrepit oldster, wearing a cloak of yellow ribbons and carrying a highly obscene and ineffably sacred wooden image, was brought forward and installed on the front-and-center cushion. Oomphel in the Sky I know no literature more ineffably dreary than the parcelling out of these wild and glorious visions, the attaching of them to this and that petty human fulfilment. Joyous Gard The breeze bears to me odours ineffably delicious. Strife and Peace Evans' hands were growing ineffably heavy, his whole body yearned for sleep. Invaders from the Infinite Verena spoke to the others, but she looked at her lover, and the expression of her eyes was ineffably touching and beseeching. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) There were a few of the neighbors present; they looked neither frightened nor curious, but ineffably exalted. Cape Cod Folks Some people might feel inclined to smile at this account of a mother's apprehension, but it is only a natural attribute of devoted love, ineffably sweet and beautiful. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post A hundred in number, perhaps, they swerved in dignified fashion and in their ineffably beautiful posture of flying, necks gently bent backward and long legs trailing delicately, flew away to the west. The Plunderer O religion, ineffably radiant and exalting in thy pure influence, how thou art often debased by thy professed followers! The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 White with the worship of ages, ineffably beautiful and pathetic, is the old light-religion of humanity—a sublime nature-mysticism in which Light was love and life, and Darkness evil and death. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Three men were dining at the table: a freckled redheaded man with the high cheekbones of the Scot, a dissipated young Italian of a most romantic air, and a small, round, vivacious man, ineffably French. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World A smile ineffably sweet touched his lips and shone in his eyes. Wolf Breed The views from all these Saracenic villas over the fruitful valley of the Golden Horn, and the turrets of Palermo, and the mountains and the distant sea, are ineffably delightful. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series A pompous commodore brings an American squadron into port, and is ineffably disgusted at finding his consul utterly unable to do the honors or in any way assist the cruise. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 And he had found it ineffably sweet to enfold that warm mass of wan helplessness in his own virile strength. Never-Fail Blake He could take a step forward and she would be in his arms,—that glorious, adorable, ineffably feminine creation,—in his arms,—in his arms,— It was she who broke the spell. From the Housetops This air of the ineffably invincible made Dorothy forget the adoration which had aforetime glowed in his eyes, and she longed to box his ears. The President A novel The delicious sense of comfort and security which her mother's presence brought soothed her ineffably. A Crooked Path A Novel Similarly, begotten, not made, was explained to mean that the Son has nothing in common with the creatures made by him, but is of a higher essence, ineffably begotten of the Father. The Arian Controversy To Noble he seemed a being ineffably privileged and fateful, and something of the same quality invested the wooden gateposts in front of Julia's house; invested everything that had to do with her. Gentle Julia The drawing itself became ineffably dear to her. The Last Man "My child," said she, with a look that she meant should be ineffably affectionate, and which was not, "Count Storri has been talking of you." The President A novel The medallions are a series of little grotesques, some of them ineffably entertaining, and others expressive of real depth of knowledge and thought. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Such a crowning wonder seems to me no more 118than the fit climax to a creative work that has been ineffably beautiful and marvellous in all its myriad stages. The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin Life stretched before him, serene, ineffably fragrant, unending. Gentle Julia Bessie was ineffably depressed by this information: what romance is there in the law for the imagination of eighteen? The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The humour may excuse the discourtesy, but Oscar was so uniformly polite to everyone that the incident simply shows how ineffably he had been bored. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 The expression of Our Lady's face was ineffably sweet, tender, and compassionate; but what touched me to the very depths of my soul was her gracious smile. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse The men mostly of the sturdy, sporting type, bored her ineffably, and she found the women, with their perpetual local gossip and discussion of domestic difficulties, dull and uninspiring. The Moon out of Reach For on rising in the morning she felt ineffably feeble and forlorn; she seemed to have scarcely closed her eyes, when she must be up and doing. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Of course she did not mind his not having paid her much attention before the children, who repeated everything, but to go on in that silly romping away with Crickey was ineffably disgusting. Bluebell A Novel Outside, a spring bunting was still singing, sweetly, ineffably. The Eternal Maiden And could anything express the state of young Reginald's mind so ineffably as the primer type of his letter to Lucy? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 He took her face between his hands and kissed her on the mouth—not passionately, but with the ineffably sad calmness of farewell. The Moon out of Reach The peace and peril of the moment were ineffably sweet. Kenny Mrs. Sharpe said, ineffably calm, stooping to pick up the glass. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week He faced her proudly, with the big, honest, clumsy dignity of a rugged man—and there was a loving quiet in his tones that touched her ineffably. The Seeker All true enough, but how shallow, and how ineffably conceited! Side Lights But she was sitting afar off in a quiet flat, softly lighted, ineffably cosy, in the place called home, where husbands were not wanted. Married Life The True Romance Ravengar's eyes, so fiendish and so ineffably sad, melted his spine. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes How he is compressed into a life groove, of which an ineffably turgid respectability provides the chronic atmosphere, is the theme of Grand Chain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 With an ineffably satisfied air, Mr. Sheffer tapped his bullet head. Success A Novel Aunt Rachel's face, ineffably ignorant and ineffably sweet, lit up with a smile of welcome. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The twins adored her and had the most ineffably delicious ways of showing it. The Real Adventure At last he died in his sleep one night, holding David's hand, looking so ineffably happy that the impostor inwardly gloried in his imposture as in one of the best deeds of his chequered life. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so "microscopically" small that—but let us not anticipate. Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata The stars were walking in brightness—so clear and sparkling that each seemed a ray or an emblem of that ineffably glorious Beam whose uncreated splendour no eye can see and live. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 His ineffably sad but quiet realization of his desolate condition when his wife turns him out into the storm, leaves scarcely a dry eye in the theatre. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made And to crown all, an aviator had the ineffably bad taste and the culpable foolhardiness to circle round and round within a few dozen yards of our heads. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Never had she appeared so broken, so resigned, so ineffably spiritual; and Gabriella's solitary comfort was the thought that Jane's attack had conquered Charley as completely as it had conquered the rest of them. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Mis-spelling is not a thing to be employed every day or for every purpose: if you do that, you get into the ineffably dreary monotony which distinguishes the common comic journalist. The English Novel Mr. Chaplin is always to the front on such occasions; pompous, prolix, and ineffably dull. Sketches in the House (1893) A drowsy, ineffably languid feeling took possession of the entire assemblage. Truxton King A Story of Graustark Like the ineffably low, vile, and cowardly people that they are, they killed my father because he trusted them, and set them loose for their own comfort. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century And there was a scent from the Christ soul as ineffably delicious as the scent of the rose. Flames She looked so ineffably wretched that his heart ached for her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 "That angel of beauty has the ineffably eccentric idea that she loves that old transparency, that old magic-lantern slide of a man!" Saracinesca I know of nothing since Lord Bacon quite like these ineffably dainty little paragraphs of gilded whim, these rainbow nuggets of wistful inquiry, these butterfly wings of fancy, these pointed sparklers of wit. Shandygaff Like the ineffably low, vile, and cowardly people that they are, they killed my father because he trusted them and set them loose for their own comfort. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Are not all mortals exposed to similar, nay, worse calamities, ineffably unavoidable? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II But all at once I began to catch my breath and gasp The sea-smells had become laden with a kind of paradisal perfume, ineffably sweet, but difficult to breathe all of a sudden. Aylwin Each delicate shade of color in the flower found a sympathetic wire which vibrated in response to it, and the harmony produced by all in chorus was the ineffably sweet song of Nature. Zarlah the Martian At last, ineffably content, I stepped out upon the driveway at the side of the house, and strolled away among the trees. The Gloved Hand Down below the luxurious passengers live in their fine hotel, and the luckier ones are quite happy and ineffably comfortable. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour It was so ineffably pathetic--this lovely creature, just tasting of the cup of life and love and dying so. Mr. Isaacs There was something about the line of her waist that, without any warning, seemed to him ineffably tender, wistful, girlish, seductive. The Price of Love He did not speak easily of his feeling, even to his young wife, to whom marriage had so closely, so ineffably bound him. Missing Left alone on the wild heath, I gave free current to my countless tears, relieving my heart from an ineffably weary weight. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English It seemed some angel voice had whispered something ineffably sweet to her. Around Old Bethany A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis Nature, learning, leisure, and our ineffably sweet companionship--I thought, poor fool, that these joys would be with me to the end. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters Life was ineffably dreary—when it was not revoltingly horrible. The Way of an Eagle The dawn, as in all the pure, dry desert country, is ineffably beautiful; and when the first level sunbeams sting the domes and spires, with what a burst of power the big, wild days begin! The Grand Cañon of the Colorado How they leave in our hearts nought but the dim consciousness that we are capable of an existence ineffably deeper and vaster than that which we lead in the visible world! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator He was ineffably shocked at the old squire's villany in the matter, but declared to all to whom he spoke openly on the subject that he did not see how the sinner could be punished. Mr. Scarborough's Family I have no doubt that my critic would find them highly aboard, and perhaps would pronounce them ineffably ludicrous, and preposterous feats of logic. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed The next thing I noticed after the gesture about the razor was to catch myself bowing ineffably when I met Delia, and stooping in an old-fashioned, courtly way over her hand. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories To-day Gloucester was gnawing at his finger nails, big York seemed half-asleep, and the Earl of Derby appeared patiently to await something as yet ineffably remote. Chivalry It was ineffably sweet and satisfying to be thus identified with the profession of letters, and it was immeasurably more dignified than "tugging" on the Saginaw River. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories "I'll try not to," she told him, her dark eyes ineffably beautiful with their luster of tears. The Sky Line of Spruce I felt suddenly old and worn and ineffably weary. Mary Marie Serpent she is in the shape of a woman, Brighter than woman, ineffably fair! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens During the interval, Paul and Florence whispered to Walter, and Captain Cuttle beamed on the three, with such aspiring and ineffably presumptuous thoughts as Mr Dombey never could have believed in. Dombey and Son And there—no, not there—but somewhere from out of the gentle rush of the middle current there seemed to come to him a marvellous mist of drifting sound—ineffably, rapturously sweet! Boyhood in Norway And he saw it, clear and ineffably wonderful, in the stars that came into her eyes. The Sky Line of Spruce In the warm afternoon sunlight it stood, ineffably gracious and beautiful, tantalising with a sense of some deep hidden loveliness. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Did ever a moment supreme Illumine his face with a strange ineffably beautiful dream? The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens To philosophise is always foolish; to philosophise with a drunken headache, ineffably so. Creatures That Once Were Men Those leaping horses, striking sparks from the cobbles in their forward lunge, were creatures to be ineffably admired. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Next to the ineffably blessed period of youth there is no time of life pleasanter than that in which serene old age reviews the exploits and the prodigies of boyhood. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac This was not the discomposure of last night; that had quite passed—such discomposures were a detail; the real coercion was to see a man ineffably adored. The Ambassadors But Penrod had the delectable bottle again, and tilting it above his lips, affected to let the cool liquid purl enrichingly into him, while with his right hand he stroked his middle facade ineffably. Penrod In this indirect approach of dawn there was something ineffably mysterious. The Blue Lagoon: a romance The dawn, as in all the pure, dry desert country is ineffably beautiful; and when the first level sunbeams sting the domes and spires, with what a burst of power the big, wild days begin! Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon In spite of roars and hoots, however, Elias B. Hopkins plodded away at the Apocalypse with the same serene countenance, looking as ineffably contented as though the babel around him were the most gratifying applause. The Captain of the Polestar He pitied this betrayed child quite ineffably, because in her sorrow she was so pretty. The Certain Hour The poor fellow was ineffably grateful, and I had some difficulty in tearing myself from out of the reach of his thanks. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East She had always been a very distinct presence in his life, but so ineffably gentle a one that his sense was fully opened to it only by the danger of losing her. Roderick Hudson At every step, I felt that it was vastly difficult to take another, that it would be ineffably sweet to sink down upon the earth and rest. An Enemy to the King Upon his cheek was the dark stain of blood, and on his lips was a smile ineffably sweet and gentle as he came forward, looking from one to the other. The Amateur Gentleman She had softened ineffably, like a ripened fruit; was more liable to the backward glance of the passer-by. Star-Dust A blue-coated bobby was to be seen approaching with measured stride, diffusing upon the still evening air an impression of ineffably capable self-contentment. The Black Bag A deep breath heaved her chest, her head drooped backward, her eyelids closing in a relief as intense, as ineffably comforting, as the cessation of an unbearable pain. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California But, listening, he knew better—he had heard it long ago, though when and how, he did not know, as rich and true, and ineffably tender as now. The Gentleman from Indiana I was ineffably content; and at ease within a rather kindly universe, taking it by and large…. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking I have been reading over this tedious homily, and find it most ineffably dull. Anna St. Ives The ineffably bright lancers that stand guard over the elemental hosts are the light brigade with which to rout the vitalistic enemy. Life: Its True Genesis The world is ineffably dull, heaven has always fooled her, and she is starving for love. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene With her acquiescence he rolled a cigarette, and she began to hum lightly the air of a song, a song of an ineffably gentle, slow movement. The Gentleman from Indiana I caught both her hands in mine, and laughed like an ineffably contented person. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking This metaphysical vision entranced Augustin; his whole heart leaped towards this ineffably beautiful Divinity. Saint Augustin He spoke in a voice little above a whisper, and she saw his face ineffably calm in the moonlight. Lady Audley's Secret But when it is to some beautiful and happy outcome, this advancement is an ineffably charming spectacle. Tales from Bohemia His look at the door of Isabel's house was the look of a man who is quite certain that the next moment will reveal something ineffably charming, inexpressibly dear. The Magnificent Ambersons The whole world was at full-tide, ineffably sweet and just a little languorous: and bees were audible, as in a humorous pretence of vexation…. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking The character of the heralded morning, ineffably sweet and fresh and limpid, but for the esthetic sense alone, and for purity without sentiment. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Forthwith, the stage is lit up with an ineffably pure, divinely roseate, harmonious and ethereal brightness. The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts When this form of love is seen, it appears ineffably beautiful, and affects with delight the inmost life of the soul. Daily Strength for Daily Needs The rise of a unified, industrially mighty and narcissistic Germany led to two ineffably ruinous world wars. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism In a love like this, there is something ineffably beautiful,—it is essentially the poetry of passion. The Pilgrims of the Rhine His voice made all the blood in uncle Nathan's veins start again; it was music in itself, such music as brought back his youth, sad and ineffably sweet. The Old Homestead He wrestled with himself and forced himself to cherish this other man's child as though he were the child whom it would have been ineffably sweet for him to have had by the beloved. Jean-Christophe Journey's End A deeper red burned in his fresh young cheeks; his smiling lips were steady; his candid blue eyes, ineffably gentle, gazed widely against the candlelit gloom where he was making his simple preparations for bed. The Happy End Following two ineffably ruinous world wars, Europe now shifted its geopolitical sights from France to Germany. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism The boy looked so ineffably wretched that the father's heart melted still more. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family For the rest, His ex-Excellency seemed to be ineffably bored with his new functions. Alone It was perfectly glorious to think of this divine light burning over all this vast crystal sea in such ineffably fine effulgence, and over how many other of icy Alaska's glaciers where nobody sees it. Travels in Alaska Lanfranc held the position that the consecrated elements are "ineffably, incomprehensibly, wonderfully by the operation of power from on high, turned into the essence of the Lord's Body." The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 It passed, with simple and immortal movements, scattering on every side the bounties of its grace, smiling ineffably still; but Swann thought that he could now discern in it some disenchantment. Swann's Way There, as in the Yosemite region, it is ineffably beautiful, the very loveliest of all the American conifers. The Yosemite Spending almost the whole of her time in solitude, and taught to consider her office as ineffably sacred, she saw visions, and was for the most part in a state of great excitement. Lives of the Necromancers An hour or more before sunset the distant mountains, a vast host, seemed more softly ethereal than ever, pale blue, ineffably fine, all angles and harshness melted off in the soft evening light. Travels in Alaska There is something ineffably ludicrous in the spectacle of a host of fat aldermen rushing out from their shops and offices to steady the tottering throne of Omnipotence. Prisoner for Blasphemy He never once looked up as his aunt came forward; his eyes were riveted upon that ineffably calm face with a vacant, sightless sort of stare that chilled her blood. A Terrible Secret But, however low their singing, it is always ineffably fine in tone, in harmony with the restful time of the year. The Yosemite At this the rich colour deepened in her cheek and her eyes grew ineffably tender. Peregrine's Progress It had a mixture of humility and of gracious bestowal in it, of entreaty and of benediction, which were ineffably beautiful and winning. Saxe Holm's Stories Mr. Oxford's way of saying 'Jew' was ineffably ironic. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Well, in the first place, you will make me ineffably happy. Phantom Fortune, a Novel True, she had seen dismay on his face at the moment of his declaration, but that moment was unique, and his dismay had ineffably flattered her. Hilda Lessways It was, probably, the touch, the atmosphere, the ineffably fine influence which surrounded it, which had penetrated my unconscious perceptions, and brought her near. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 All the arch, joyous, playful look was gone; there was no added age in the look which had taken its place; neither any sorrow; but something ineffably solemn, rapt, removed from earth. Saxe Holm's Stories All things indeed are ineffably unfolded from him at once, into light; but divine media are necessary to the fabrication of the world. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato Mr. Smithson sat in a bamboo chair beside his mistress, and looked ineffably happy when she handed him a cup of tea. Phantom Fortune, a Novel But Beth erroneously judged that the aged and infirm love sober and scholarly books, and picked out a treatise that proved ineffably dull and tedious. Aunt Jane's Nieces So spake Beltane, hot and passionate, striding to and fro upon the sward, while Ambrose sat with bitterness in his heart but with eyes ineffably gentle. Beltane the Smith The world was motionless, ineffably expectant, as it seemed to him. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations All these colored belts blending smoothly make a wall of light ineffably fine, and as beautiful as a rainbow, yet firm as adamant. The Mountains of California Lord Denyer shrugged his shoulders, pursed up his lips, and looked ineffably wise, a way he had when he knew very little about the subject under discussion. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The End of Time lagged in the rear: the reflection that a mule cannot outrun an elephant, made him look so ineffably miserable, that I sent him back to the kraal. First Footsteps in East Africa The South Carolinians gave a cheer and the ladies waved their handkerchiefs when the corona, ineffably delicate of form and texture, melted into sight and then in two minutes melted away again. Curiosities of the Sky The whole world was motionless, ineffably expectant, as it seemed to him. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Lately, during the misty autumn nights, the moon has shone on them faintly and refined their shabbiness away into something ineffably strange and spectral. Italian Hours A dreamy, ineffably sweet smile lay in her dark eyes. The Prince of Graustark There was something ineffably sad and pathetic about it. A Fool and His Money But, no! men will not give up the subtle pleasure of discounts, ineffably childish though it be. Without Prejudice His eyelids drooped a trifle, so that he seemed to meditate concerning something ineffably remote and serious, yet not, upon the whole, unsatisfactory. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations At such times the thought of holding the slim, warm, ineffably feminine body in his arms was most distracting. The Hollow of Her Hand One was in the bold, superior scrawl of a boy, the other ineffably feminine in its painstaking regard for legibility and tidiness. Quill's Window Primitively sensuous, she was also primitively wary,—and so she was ineffably feminine. West Wind Drift Something ineffably trivial, and yet a matter of life and death. Without Prejudice A room and its dressing-room received the three at old Mrs. Merrifield's, and the two cousins thought their close quarters ineffably precious. The Two Sides of the Shield Her soft young body was warm again; that ineffably feminine charm was revived in her. The Hollow of Her Hand She was proud yet humble, aloof yet compassionate, and above all ineffably beautiful. Love's Pilgrimage To me, it's all terribly, unspeakably, ineffably impressive. Michael's Crag The moment you step across the sharply-defined line which separates it from the rest of the globe, you stand upon ineffably and unspeakably holy ground. Following the Equator, Part 5 Constance looked ineffably fastidious and uncomfortable, and Dolores gazed at the clouded window, and dull little lamp overhead, put in to enliven the deepening twilight. The Two Sides of the Shield "It must be ineffably sublime, being squashed—or is it squshed?—after a drop of a mile or two, isn't it?" The Hollow of Her Hand They were young—so infinitely and ineffably young, it seemed to us. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me The morning air was ineffably sweet and keen—penetrant, tonic, with moist, racy smells, the smell of the good brown earth, the smell of green things and growing things. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box The Millionaires' was the show club of the city, the one which the ineffably rich had set apart for themselves. The Metropolis He told himself that it was impossible;—that he and she were ineffably disgraced;—that, if reunited, they must live buried out of sight in some remote distance. He Knew He Was Right Then he seemed to get his feet on the ground again, and a strange, ineffably sweet sense of calm took possession of him. The Hollow of Her Hand It seems well grounded, but then it is so ineffably silly! Chopin : the Man and His Music The man, smiling ineffably, declared that that particular green never flew anywhere. The Small House at Allington She was sorry—very sorry, yet so glad—so ineffably, impenitently glad. The Hermit and the Wild Woman Suffering by their own fault would have rent them asunder more harshly, and Louis's freedom from all fierceness and violence softened all ineffably to Mary. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 The dear creature smiled ineffably charmingly, and, with a look of bewitching tenderness, said, "and shall we never part again?" The Adventures of Roderick Random Every one acquainted with Trinidad politics knows very well the ineffably low dodges and subterfuges under which the Arima Railway was prevented from having its terminus in the centre of that town. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas She smiles ineffably; in her eagerness, she almost, rises from her tabouret to meet him, but—what can he intend to do? Prince Eugene and His Times Richard told her that she might come in, and, as she slowly advanced, she thought she had never seen anything so ineffably mournful as the affectionate look on her father's face. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations How interesting, how tremendously, ineffably interesting was Life! Missy His passion for Cytherea grew not only strong, but ineffably exalted: she, without positively encouraging him, tacitly assented to his schemes for being near her. Desperate Remedies With them, its stillness seemed almost ineffably profound. A Spirit in Prison She submitted, still with her pure, trusting smile, in which there was something ineffably passive. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Vivacious, alert, imperious, and yet ineffably sweet, she seemed to radiate the very joy and exuberance of life. The Grand Babylon Hotel Oh, multifold fragrance and tints divine which so ineffably enrich our lives! Missy Memories of bygone days had become ineffably dear to me. The Rise of David Levinsky All the ineffably sweet incidents of their love-life stretched themselves out in a vista before her, and tempted her to reverse her decision. The Red Acorn The things she had said were answered only by his scorn, and she could see he was ineffably ashamed of her. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Yet she was more familiar to him than the women he had known best, and she was ineffably beautiful and consoling. Nona Vincent Meanwhile in the chapel the ineffably blasphemous rites proceeded. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Then, opening her ineffably beautiful blue eyes, the hallowed eyes of a mother, she raised them towards the azure heavens, while in their depths there was coming and going a flame of joy and gratitude. Through Russia On the three pillars only six hundred feet away were fame, increase of fortune, promotions, and a triumph ineffably sweetened by hate, all in store for him! Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ Of course it is absolutely unhistorical; of course it is empty of character, and replete with fustian, and ineffably tedious; but perhaps it is not much worse than other luckier tragedies of the age. Adventures Among Books To philosophize is always foolish; to philosophize with a drunken headache, ineffably so. Creatures That Once Were Men Monmouth looked up quickly, his beautiful eyes ineffably sad, his weak mouth drooping at the corners. Mistress Wilding His eyes, which were light blue and ineffably gentle, implored the protection of men and women; that beseeching look fascinated before the melody of his voice was heard to complete the charm. The Hated Son The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness. Elizabeth and Her German Garden It was a wintry gleam but it ineffably softened her face. A Strange Disappearance But now the man was dead, and would come again Never, though she might honor ineffably The flimsy wraith of him she conjured Out of a dream with his wand of absence. The Three Taverns She stopped a moment, and I swear her face was ineffably holy as she said, 'I could have made him a good wife.' The Night-Born |
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