inexplainable

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True, he picked it up like a flash, and put himself on guard, but how it was that a veteran like him could have made such a slip was totally inexplainable to his foe.

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

He could not account for it, except as he accounted for all inexplainable things, as being the direct prompting of the Great Spirit.

From Camp-fire and Wigwam by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

She willingly forgave me and did not ask me more than I wished to tell, just as she had always met me with the utmost discretion in my, to her inexplainable, humors.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

The Pawnees knew of a verity that the Shawanoe must be an excellent swimmer, and it certainly was inexplainable if he did not reappear.

From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

There was something inexplainable about this maid who veiled her eagerness to admit him with such transparencies.

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell