340 examples of ineffable in sentences

she's a perfect girl, but she's very young," and Dick eyed Rosa with ineffable complacency.

Astronomy also is useful for the purpose of investigating the fabricator of all things, and contemplating as in most splendid images the ideal world, and its ineffable cause.

And thus, beginning from the hypothetical, he ends in that which is unhypothetical, and truly ineffable.

No less remarkable likewise, is the difference between the tendencies of the two pursuits, for the one elevates the soul to the most luminous heights, and to that great ineffable which is beyond all altitude; but the other is the cause of a mighty calamity to the soul, since, according to the elegant expression of Plutarch, it extinguishes her principal and brightest eye, the knowledge of divinity.

, "Fables call the ineffable unfolding into light through causes, generation."

Or they may even become so protuberant and bulging as to develop the expression of one staring aghast at some ineffable horror.

" Delia, though the native modesty of her character caused her whole face to be suffused with blushes at having the eyes of the whole company thus turned upon her, regarded the peer with a look of ineffable disdain, and turned from him in silence.

An instant afterwards, though, he burst out laughing, in spite of himself, as 'The Battersea Bantam,' who had been ineffectually dancing round Tregarva like a gamecock spurring at a bull, turned off with a voice of ineffable disgust, 'That big cove's a yokel; ta'nt creditable to waste science on him.

It is ineffable insolence!' Lesbia crouched by her grandmother's chair, her face hidden from Lady Maulevrier's falcon eye.

"' They went on deck presently and sat in the summer darkness, lighted only by the stars, and by the lights of the yachts, and the faintly gleaming windows of the lighted town, sat long and late, in a state of ineffable repose.

When the sails were up and the yacht was running merrily through the water, Montesma went back to Lady Lesbia, and they two sat side by side, gilded and glorified in the vivid lights of sunrise, talking as they had never talked before, her head upon his shoulder, a smile of ineffable peace upon her lips, as of a weary child that has found rest.

Blood was shed, as was but natural at that ineffable hour.

There was the ineffable sense of youth in common.

The ineffable serenity, the holy peace, made it look like the face of one who had been transfigured, translated; who had not known and who never could know any death.

Her eyes were bright and her cheeks pink; but there was an ineffable, almost solemn tenderness in her manner to John, which was pathetic.

In the confusion of rescuing the fluffery, the owner of the suitcase had to sacrifice her hauteur and help her husband and son block up the aisle, while the other matron had the ineffable satisfaction of being kept waiting, at last being enabled to say, sweetly and with the most polite consideration: "Will you kindly allow me to pass?

But the snows of winter are necessary to the blossoms of spring,the waste of death to the resurrection of life; and from the vastest of all desolations does our Lady lead her children in the loftiest of all flights,even from all sorrow and solitude,from the wastes of earth and the desolation of Æons, to ineffable joy in her Saviour Lord.

The selling of dry-goods is another department in high art about which the ignorance of outsiders is ineffable.

About sixty years after he had penned the first words of Faust, the disgruntled pessimist at war with life, he took leave of him as a purified soul mounting upward among the saints toward the Ineffable Light, under the mystic guidance of the Eternal-Womanly.

Mr. Codlin stuck it in his buttonhole with an air of ineffable complacency, and laid himself down again.

It was an ineffable relief to find it dark.

" What an instrument of ineffable delight that voice of hers was,its chalumeau tenderness just relieved with the sparkle of irony.

Ineffable degrees, by C. C. Zain, pseud.

She really looked like an angel of peace sent from heaven on a mission of concord, with her long golden hair, her bright face, and smile of ineffable loveliness.

I feel Thee now pouring in Thy ineffable peace.

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