"Unintelligible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as if he had been a file; halted him like a file, sang out to him as to a file, stentorian and unintelligible, after the manner ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... speed what spot you claim by birth. Or with this club fall stricken to the earth! This club hath ofttimes slaughtered haughty kings! Why mumble unintelligible things? What land, what tribe produced that shaking head? Declare it! On my journey when I sped Far to the Kingdom of the triple King, And from the Main Hesperian did bring The goodly cattle to the Argive town, There I beheld a ...
— Apocolocyntosis • Lucius Seneca
... sleep when Gwyn reached his side, but for a time his words were unintelligible. Then quite plainly ...
— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn
... hero grew in the good graces of his school-fellows, he fell out of those of his masters, for lessons were brought only half-learned, and exercises only half-written, or blotted and scrawled so as to be nearly unintelligible; and after he had been a fortnight at school, he seemed much more likely to descend to a lower class than to mount a step in his own. Day after day saw Louis kept in the school-room during play-hours, to learn lessons which ought to have been done the night before, ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... partial, by Roth, Benfey, Langlois, Bergaigne; in English chiefly by Wilson, Mueller, Muir, Peterson, Griffith. Of these the German translation of Grassmann is often inaccurate;[8] that of Ludwig, often unintelligible. Benfey has translated a number of specimens, OO., BB., i, vii, and in Kleinere Schriften. The incomplete translation of Wilson has been carried on by Cowell; those of Peterson and Griffith are publishing in India; Langlois' ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
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