He must have felt that I meant exactly what I said, for he walked off mumbling unintelligibly.

Artifice is, indeed, one more source of perplexity: it is the interest of that man whose cause is bad to speak unintelligibly in the defence of it, and of him whose actions cannot bear to be examined, to hide them in disorder, to engage his pursuers in a labyrinth, that they may not trace his steps and discover his retreat; and what intricacies may be produced by fraud cooperating with subtilty, it is not possible to tell.

There being a guest, grace was to come, and Dwight said unintelligibly and like lightning a generic appeal to bless this food, forgive all our sins and finally save us.

[See also Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," 1868, in v.] [307] The stage directions are often given very confusedly, and (taken by themselves) unintelligibly, in the old copy, of which this instance may serve as a specimen: it stands thus in the 4to"Enter Fitzwater and his son Bruce, and call forth his daughter.

The Kid, his teeth sunk in the raisin pie, shook a decisive head and mumbled unintelligibly.

Cashgar is at the western end of the great desert, instead of the eastern, as expressed in the text; indeed this route is most confusedly, and almost unintelligibly laid down, probably from corrupted transcription.

And to talk of specific differences in NATURE, without reference to general ideas in names, is to talk unintelligibly.

He writes unintelligibly, and the French will not trust himso I shall not be sorry if we can get rid of him.

What worries you?" He grumbled unintelligibly or failed to answer at all.

"William Barker," he answered almost unintelligibly.

"Comingtomeetyou," he articulated very rapidly and quite unintelligibly, "an 'countered hill in driveway ...

" Conolly glanced about him vaguely; picked up the piece of waste again as if he had been looking for that; recollected himself; and looked unintelligibly at her.

She's going to marry thatthat' He choked and muttered, unintelligibly: 'I've reasoned, I've pleaded, I've commanded.

"A man may, in respect of grammatical purity, speak unexceptionably, and yet speak obscurely and ambiguously; and though we cannot say, that a man may speak properly, and at the same time speak unintelligibly, yet this last case falls more naturally to be considered as an offence against perspicuity, than as a violation of propriety.

Sheil was very small, and of mean presence; with a singularly fidgety manner, a shrill voice, and a delivery unintelligibly rapid.

Many Aristotelians have likewise spoken as unintelligibly of their substantial Forms.

However, this Art of writing unintelligibly has been very much improved, and follow'd by several of the Moderns, who observing the general Inclination of Mankind to dive into a Secret, and the Reputation many have acquired by concealing their Meaning under obscure Terms and Phrases, resolve, that they may be still more abstruse, to write without any Meaning at all.

He has no facility of inculcating his speculations, of adapting himself to the various degrees of intellect which the accidents of conversation will present; but will talk to most unintelligibly, and to all unpleasantly.

" The Captain muttered unintelligibly and passed on, and Bill chose to interpret the mutter as consent.

" The foreman, at the critical stage of cigarette lighting, grunted unintelligibly.

There were eight of them and six of them were out, one was maudlin with liquor and the other was very deaf and shouted unintelligibly.

E. Some of these are so unintelligibly related, owing to ignorance in the translator, that it were unnecessary to insert them in this place.

A man in front of her was calling out unintelligibly, and somewhere under cover a woman's voice was uplifted in shrill tones of dismay.

Nine out of every ten of the people I met or passed spoke in a language that to me was as unintelligibly mysterious as the cuneiform characters on Mr. Layard's Nineveh sculptures.

"Linnæus limps," is one of the last entries in his diary, "can hardly walk, speaks unintelligibly, and is scarce able to write.