inscrutableness

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Sometimes, wrought to a mystic mood by contemplating its ponderous inscrutableness, Pierre had called it the Terror Stone.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The inscrutableness however of the mystery they contained, did not suffice to overwhelm my courage.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

Wholly confounded by this inscrutableness of her so alienated and infatuated daughter, Mrs. Tartan turned inflamedly upon Pierre, and bade him follow her forth.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

But our soul's arches underfit into its; and so, prevent the upper arch from falling on us with unsustainable inscrutableness.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Colter had not been so bold nor so rude as Daggs, but he was the same kind of man, perhaps the more dangerous for his secretiveness, his cool, waiting inscrutableness.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane