is a fair copy of the Defence of Poetry, apparently damaged by sea-water, and illegible in many places.

that lantern-jawed countenance of a droll, with its heavy, black, eloquent eyebrows, its high and narrow forehead merging into an extensive bald spot fringed with greyish hair, its rather small, blue, illegible eyes, its high-bridged nose and prominent nostrils, its wide and thin-lipped mouth, its rather startling pallor.

Perplexed, perturbed, Lanyard gazed down into that richly tinted face which, with eyes half-curtained and lips half-parted, seemed to betray so much, yet to his next glance was wholly illegible and provoking.

But are you doing me the honour to be jealous?" "Perhaps, petit Monsieur Paul..." In the broken light of passing lamps her quiet smile was as illegible as her shadowed eyes.

They are written so small as to be almost illegible.

What Goethe says about the most legible handwriting being illegible in the twilight, is doubtless true; and should be oftener borne in mind by frivolous objectors, who declare they do not understand this or do not admire that, as if their want of taste and understanding were rather creditable than otherwise, and were decisive proofs of an author's insignificance.

The next word is illegible.

Would nature write so illegible a hand that the mind must wait a long time before becoming able to read what had been inscribed upon it?

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Garie[Here followed a passage that was so scored and crossed as to be illegible.

In a cramped and almost illegible hand the old wanderer of the mountains had written: Don't go to cabin.

But fate, propitious to me, had dried up his ink-bottle; the expense of replenishing it would have broken his heart of itself; and the attorney's announcement to me was, that the will, after blinding the solicitor to the treasury and three of his clerks, was pronounced to be altogether illegible.

Two of them bore nothing but the date line, made illegible, it would seem, by the writer's haste and nervousness.

At first he tried writing within oblongs cut out of cardboard, but the result was apt to be illegible.

She looked at the book that he held open before her, and perceived that its vertical ruling betokened a sordid import, that its list of items in an illegible mixture of English and German was lengthy.

The illegible parts are precisely indicated, without any conjectural insertions, and young Washington's spelling and punctuation subjected to no literary tampering.

In several places there were mere evidences of words, now entirely illegible.

What then?" The man scratched his head, contemplating William as he might some illegible sign-post set up at an unusually bothersome cross-road.

[TR: word illegible] did hit dat way.

[TR: illegible] in their skirts and when they stopped wearing them and wore narrow skirts?

No. 42. Were there any Negroes of your acquaintance who were skilled [TR: illegible] particular line of work?

Sincerely yours, [Illegible: H. W. Majorson] Dowagiac, Mich., Dec 26, 1906.

Sincerely, with best wishes [Illegible signature: A. S. Goodman] St. Paul, Minn., November 26, 1906.

The general public saw in him a man who flung himself into his cases with the fervor and passion of a mountain-torrent, whose eloquence was exuberant and sometimes extravagant, who said quaint and brilliant things with a very grave countenance, and whose handwriting was picturesquely illegible.

" "His writing is rather illegible.

The post-marks were illegible, and the envelope much crumpled.

Telegrams [unreadable] Telephone Mayfair 4707 B.R.C.S. or Order of St. John ... Sir, Will you kindly fill up the following form of Medical Certificate, returning it to the address given above.

It is distinctly ascertained that she expressly prohibited him from doing so; they continued to correspond to the last, and her affectionate, though unreadable, reminiscences, are sufficient proof that she at no time considered herself to be neglected, injured, or aggrieved.

" Jacobs, in his "Lives of the Poets," speaks of him as a multifarious writer of unreadable trash,and names but few of his productions.

There is something genuine, honest, gentlemanly, and unreadable in him.

He had studied the face of the big man from up north all during the scene, and he found the stern features unreadable.

The poems of Rochester, the plays of Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, all popular in their day, are mostly unreadable.

In this term I accomplished the preparation of a volume of Mathematical Tracts on subjects which, either from their absolute deficiency in the University or from the unreadable form in which they had been presented, appeared to be wanted.

He remembered how her ladyship's grandson had compared her with the Sphinx; and it seemed to him to-night, as he studied her proud and tranquil beauty, that there was indeed something of the mysterious, the unreadable in that countenance, and that beneath its heroic calm there might be the ashes of tragic passion, the traces of a life-long struggle with fate.

He was, however, a man of some talent, though his poems are now hopelessly unreadable, and seems to have had a singular attraction for Johnson.

No other excuse at least can be given for the composition of one of the heaviest and most unreadable of dramatic performances, interesting now, if interesting at all, solely as a curious example of the result of bestowing great powers upon a totally uncongenial task.

The militarist monomania of Germany will have become incomprehensible; her Welt Politik literature incredible and unreadable....

There was an unfathomable, unreadable look in her dark eyes.

He introduced the Pindaric ode into English, and wrote an epic poem on a biblical subjectthe Davideisnow quite unreadable.

Were there only a compensatory arrangement for this also in another class who should be driven by a like irresistible instinct to unreadable books, the heart of the political economist would be gladdened at seeing the substantial rewards of authorship so much more equally distributed by means of a demand adapted to the always abundant supply.

Some of the things are quite unreadable to methough my family, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani from generation to generationand none are absolutely plain sailing.

No wonder he stormed, for the impossible had been made not only consistent, but unreadable.

It is startling to find Mill's Logic described (1843) as a "great unreadable book, and its elaborate demonstration of axioms and truisms."

Sir James Stephenthe distinguished sire of two distinguished contributors, who may remind more than one editor of our generation of the Horatian saying, that "Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis, ... neque imbellera feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam" this excellent writer took a more just measure of the book which Jeffrey thought unreadable.

[Footnote 1: "(unreadable on original page) in Dryden's 'Conquest of Granada.'

" Valencia's angry eyes questioned the unreadable ones of his majordomo; but he did not let go, and so the three stood for a moment longer.

Waring's eyes were unreadable.

In the glow of the hanging lamp, Starr's lined, grizzled features were as unreadable as carved bronze.

As a young manand it is to his earlier years that the bulk of the eclogues must be attributedSpagnuoli was noted for the elegance of his Latin verse; but his facility led him into over-production, and Tiraboschi reports his later writings as absolutely unreadable.

What is the good of reminding them, being so majestical, of Guizot's pertinent remark, 'that if a book is unreadable it will not be read,' or of the older saying, 'A great book is a great evil'?

The style of newspaper reporters is not without merit; it is very rarely unreadable; but for all its virtue it is rarely a well of English undefiled.