inscrutableness

Example Sentences

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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

Only let me not despair in Thee, because of this inscrutableness.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various

Mr. Spencer finds the basis of all religion in the inscrutableness of the Power which the universe manifests to us.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan

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

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