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

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

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.

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