There was something indescribable in this man's face that simply made grotesque the notion that he could be a blackguard.

"The true harvest of my life," said Thoreau, "is something as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning and evening."

His countenance conveys more quickly than his words the thought which he is elucidating, and when he refers to his Maker, his face takes on an expression indescribable for its purity.

The boats come to shore, and then there ought to be a tumbling out of the silvery harvest and a gathering of women and a strife indescribable of shrill tongues, and then a long procession of wives and daughters trotting to market, each balancing a great, dripping basket on her comely head, while the husbands and fathers go home to eat and sleep.

And at this point he noted that the arbutus-flush in her cheeks began to widen slowly, until, at last, it had burned back to the little pink ears, and had merged into the coppery glory of her hair, and had made her, if such a thing were possiblewhich a minute ago it manifestly was not,more beautiful and adorable and indescribable than ever before.