"Indecipherable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the answer to the riddle, which is otherwise indecipherable. I open the body of a gravid female. There, before my eyes, is something that takes my breath away. There, occupying the whole length of the body, is an extraordinary device; a red, horny, rigid rod; I had almost said a rostrum, so greatly does it resemble ...
— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre
... as he gazed at the thing. It was a slip of willow which grows close up to the limits of eternal ice, and it bore a rude representation of the British ensign union down, which signifies "In distress." Besides this there were one or two indecipherable words scratched on it, and three common names rather more clearly cut. Wyllard ...
— Masters of the Wheat-Lands • Harold Bindloss
... him in silence, with a sparkling eye but an indecipherable expression; and that was all that Archie was ever destined to learn of the ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... mystery ship, demolishing it completely. When it became evident that the fire was not going to be returned, the guns of the trawler again ceased, and the two vessels drew close to each other. A partly defaced name, which was rendered indecipherable by the splash of the seas as they struck the counter, could be distinguished with the aid of binoculars in the quickening light of early morning, but neither officers nor crew could be seen, the ...
— Submarine Warfare of To-day • Charles W. Domville-Fife
... day he rode in widening circles about MacLeod's Settlement. He hardly hoped to pick up a trail here where questing hundreds in search of his gold had cut the soft spring ground into a jumble of indecipherable tracks. But, beginning his own quest with a painstaking thoroughness which omitted no chance however remote, he spent ...
— Wolf Breed • Jackson Gregory |
