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  • He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room.†   (source)
  • He made an inarticulate gesture.†   (source)
  • "No," Mianaai continued, in answer to Lieutenant Awn's inarticulate query, "it hasn't turned up on public channels.†   (source)
  • Fleming snatched the pages from Josh's hand with an inarticulate cry.†   (source)
  • Again came that whispering, that inarticulate singing.†   (source)
  • "Urn, you too," I say, inarticulate.†   (source)
  • How inarticulate can a person be?†   (source)
  • The rhythmic urgency had given way to a sustained, inarticulate and mournful sound.†   (source)
  • They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monuments; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.†   (source)
  • Pap Himes looked at her, at the beads, and gave the fierce, inarticulate, ludicrously futile growl of a thwarted, perplexed animal.†   (source)
  • 'Please,' he urged her inarticulately with his arm about her shoulders, recollecting with pained sadness how inarticulate and enfeebled he had felt in the plane coming back from Avignon when Snowden kept whimpering to him that he was cold, he was cold, and all Yossarian could offer him in return was 'There, there.†   (source)
  • People inclined to be worried about the language will find ammunition, for example, in The Inarticulate Society.†   (source)
  • I did not listen to the next speaker, a tall white man who kept dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief and repeating his phrases in an emotional and inarticulate manner.†   (source)
  • She loved...With an inarticulate murmur of acceptance for whatever he could give, Lee drew him closer.†   (source)
  • "The affection that this inarticulate brown horse had aroused," journalist Ed Sullivan would write, "was a most amazing thing."†   (source)
  • She looked at him as if he were making inarticulate sounds that connected to nothing inside her mind.†   (source)
  • Although they talk, they distrust words; one of them, Reg from Saskatchewan, is so inarticulate he's practically mute, and this wordlessness of his gives him a special status, as if the visual has eaten up part of his brain and left him an idiot saint.†   (source)
  • Jace stepped forward with an inarticulate growl—and stopped in his tracks, several feet from Sebastian.†   (source)
  • We were intently inarticulate, competitively so.†   (source)
  • They had been together for a long time in war and they had grown very close, but Lee was ever formal and Longstreet was inarticulate, so they stood for a long moment side by side without speaking, not looking at each other, listening to the raindrops fall in the leaves.†   (source)
  • I feared emotion, dreaded any commitment of spirit, and was helpless to translate the murmurings of the inarticulate lover I felt screaming from within.†   (source)
  • When she speaks of it, she gets an other-world look in her eyes and becomes completely inarticulate.†   (source)
  • ANNIE leaps to her feet, and stands inarticulate; HELEN calmly gropes back to sit to the sewing card and needle.†   (source)
  • BRADY (Almost inarticulate) I—Please—!†   (source)
  • A terrible thought, that after God's withdrawal into silence the ancient mechanisms which made prophets arise should continue working, like machines left on in an abandoned factory: so that bearded wild men strode forth as before, howling, to any who would hear, their inarticulate warning.†   (source)
  • Along the frontiers that would soon be gone forever the guards had been doubled —but the soldiers eyed each other with a still inarticulate friendliness.†   (source)
  • The Hickey children were inarticulate and hysterical with fear and shock.†   (source)
  • Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!†   (source)
  • The other man was so bogged in inarticulate anger that Harris could imagine him running down a cotton row after the rabbit.†   (source)
  • Reich shouted once...a hoarse, inarticulate yell of rage and fright.†   (source)
  • That lazy insolence stung her into an inarticulate rage.†   (source)
  • Then the wail rose, remote and unearthly, and turned to an inarticulate gibbering.   (source)
    inarticulate = without words
  • He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires.   (source)
    inarticulate = unable to express oneself clearly; or not expressed clearly
  • He continued to shriek and plead, but his words had become inarticulate babble.†   (source)
  • Following them he would make a number of inarticulate sounds but no real words.†   (source)
  • I made an inarticulate grasping gesture.†   (source)
  • The story" I made an inarticulate gesture.†   (source)
  • "Ahhhhhh..."An inarticulate sound of pleasure.†   (source)
  • An inarticulate bellow escaped him as a hand gripped his right arm.†   (source)
  • The inarticulate sounds had connected, but she could not believe the sum they made.†   (source)
  • Sheb was making a noise, an inarticulate blabbering.†   (source)
  • Hard-pressed, Johnnie made only a sort of inarticulate response.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger called his name sharply, and Jake responded with that inarticulate sound of negation.†   (source)
  • She screamed something, high and inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Then you will know the quality of men even if they are inarticulate.†   (source)
  • But I see that, as usual, love is inarticulate.†   (source)
  • KATE is inarticulate, choked, repeating HELEN'S name again and again.†   (source)
  • She began to tap the accelerator lightly, her mind repeating the same words over and over like an inarticulate prayer: come on, come on, come on.†   (source)
  • I whispered it now, trying to withdraw it from the dark, inarticulate pool of my mind, and the whispering made a scratching sound in the stone vault of the stairs.†   (source)
  • Yet I dared not touch her, dared not even say her name, lest my own pain break from me with the first syllable in a monstrous outpouring of hopelessly inarticulate cries.†   (source)
  • 'Please,' he urged her inarticulately with his arm about her shoulders, recollecting with pained sadness how inarticulate and enfeebled he had felt in the plane coming back from Avignon when Snowden kept whimpering to him that he was cold, he was cold, and all Yossarian could offer him in return was 'There, there.†   (source)
  • Author Tom Shachtman argues that American democracy is threatened because we are so dumbing down our language that we risk sliding back to an oral culture, and an "entrenched power structure...benefits from a passive and largely inarticulate populace."†   (source)
  • This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and inarticulate sounds, mainly cattle noises, an urgent and force-fed lowing.†   (source)
  • Now it was only a matter of making sounds, inarticulate sounds addressed to inanimate objects unrelated to such concepts as reality, human or honor.†   (source)
  • With an inarticulate murmur she spoke to the little ones, turned her back and hurried across the bridge.†   (source)
  • The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'†   (source)
  • Poor Mandy made inarticulate moanings and reached up her arms; Shade Buckheath cursed softly under his breath; the women and children stared, eager to lose no detail.†   (source)
  • And with his usual stubborn and inarticulate doggedness, Roland laid mental hands on whatever it was.†   (source)
  • Jake was asleep beside him, but his sleep was not easy: he twisted and mumbled inarticulate words to himself, chasing his own phantoms.†   (source)
  • You could not communicate with life and existence, but she was their representative, their expression, in her the inarticulate principle of existence became sensitive and capable of speech.†   (source)
  • "You know how I feel about you guys," Tradd said, and the room was suddenly electric with the tension of inarticulate boys.†   (source)
  • He set his teeth to bear it, feeling obscurely that it was in some way his fault, because of the hardships of her life; but sometimes he would rush from the house, inarticulate with irritation.†   (source)
  • She holds HELEN struggling until we hear from the child her first sound so far, an inarticulate weird noise in her throat such as an animal in a trap might make; and KATE releases her†   (source)
  • I could feel myself struggle with a game and ardent inarticulateness as I tried to explain the concept of honor to the staggered, uncomprehending mass of boys who shivered in the air conditioning below me.†   (source)
  • By now inarticulate with sobs, Greta Ohlsson rose and groped her way towards the door.†   (source)
  • Their faces were like the face of O-lan, inarticulate, dumb.†   (source)
  • Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart filled with pity.†   (source)
  • At that moment he felt toward Mary and Jan a dumb, cold, and inarticulate hate.†   (source)
  • He seemed very embarrassed and his inarticulateness was more noticeable than ever.†   (source)
  • He was somewhat inarticulate, considering his great command of the English language in print.†   (source)
  • He had become inarticulate; his voice went off into a speechless jargon.†   (source)
  • Here the poor roach began fizzing so much, what with its stammer and its tearful disposition, that it became quite inarticulate and could only stare at Merlyn with mournful eyes.†   (source)
  • He knew he'd had a narrow escape and in later years was fond of talking about "that inarticulate sense for actuality which is our ultimate safeguard against the aberrations of mere logic".†   (source)
  • He saw himself an inarticulate stranger, an amusing little clown, to be dandled and nursed by these enormous and remote figures.†   (source)
  • The inarticulate flame that had pulsed within him, wavered and went out He sighed, bent over and picked up the wheel.†   (source)
  • They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect.†   (source)
  • Feebly, without arguments, with nothing to support him except his inarticulate horror of what O'Brien had said, he returned to the attack.†   (source)
  • Joanna inarticulately testified.†   (source)
  • I murmured something inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Then there was an inarticulate roar.†   (source)
  • He had probably not paid enough attention to Henry's inarticulate recounting of his brief and conventional background and history to have remembered that Henry had a sister—this indolent man too old to find even companionship among the youths, the children, with whom he now lived; this man miscast for the time and knowing it, accepting it for a reason obviously good enough to cause him to endure it an†   (source)
  • I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.†   (source)
  • If there is inarticulateness behind it, articulateness is nullified by the immobility of the face itself; if hope or yearning, neither hope nor yearning show.†   (source)
  • He felt in the quiet presence of his mother, brother, and sister a force, inarticulate and unconscious, making for living without thinking, making for peace and habit, making for a hope that blinded.†   (source)
  • He couldn't tell now why he had gone, except that something had forced him, something that was clear then and inevitable, but that every passing minute made more inarticulate.†   (source)
  • While he watched, the life, the vividness, faded, fled suddenly from a face that looked too still, too dull to ever have harbored it; now the eyes questioned him with a gaze dumb, inarticulate, baffled as she crouched.†   (source)
  • The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it—all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition.†   (source)
  • And he, simulating boyish, inarticulate coyness, would say: "Gosh, Miss Edith, I didn't mean to do nothin'."†   (source)
  • at morning on a stormy sky, a broken wrack of cloud; and when the mountain boy brings water to his kinsmen laying fence, and as the wind snakes through the grasses hears far in the valley below the long wail of the whistle, and the faint clangor of a bell; and the blue great cup of the hills seems closer, nearer, for he had heard an inarticulate promise: he has been pierced by Spring, that sharp knife.†   (source)
  • Odette never stopped speaking, but her words dwindled into an inarticulate moan.†   (source)
  • I heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides.†   (source)
  • [Again tears at the bracelet in a paroxysm of rage, with inarticulate sounds†   (source)
  • He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?†   (source)
  • He made an inarticulate noise in his throat like a man imperfectly stunned by a blow on the head.†   (source)
  • The doctor murmured inarticulately, gave a long gasp or two and was still.†   (source)
  • He danced and shouted a string of inarticulate words.†   (source)
  • His love partook of the nature of worship, dumb, inarticulate, a silent adoration.†   (source)
  • He burst out with quavering, inarticulate speech.†   (source)
  • His letter was pathetic because it was so brief, so inarticulate, and so business-like.†   (source)
  • Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature.†   (source)
  • Archer sprang to his feet and stood looking down on her in inarticulate despair.†   (source)
  • And he would do it quite inarticulately, set in motion by seeing a child crying in the street.†   (source)
  • He sat silent, dazed with inarticulate pain.†   (source)
  • He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.†   (source)
  • Here she burst into uncontrollable grief, and the remainder of her words were inarticulate.†   (source)
  • This is he; this helpless, inarticulately murmuring, wandering old man pointed out.†   (source)
  • She could hardly speak, and only from time to time uttered an inarticulate grunt.†   (source)
  • The old man groaned, inarticulate with amazement; and the crowd shivered.†   (source)
  • She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music.†   (source)
  • THOSE words did not die inarticulate on your lips.†   (source)
  • His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.†   (source)
  • "I am very sorry," said she inarticulately, through her tears, "I am very sorry indeed."†   (source)
  • The surprise petrified her an instant: she uttered an inarticulate exclamation, and stood fixed.†   (source)
  • I could only utter inarticulate sounds, and irresistible faintness came over me.†   (source)
  • Newman dropped into a chair and sat looking at her with a long, inarticulate murmur.†   (source)
  • "You don't know how fond I was of that one," Rawdon said, half-inarticulately.†   (source)
  • When I strove to speak, a few inarticulate sounds alone escaped my lips.†   (source)
  • The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate sounds.†   (source)
  • He murmured yet once more, "Little Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice.†   (source)
  • "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a few inarticulate oaths.†   (source)
  • Glenn whirled with an inarticulate cry.†   (source)
  • His first rush of inarticulate resentment had been followed by a steadiness and concentration of tone more disconcerting to Lily than the excitement preceding it.†   (source)
  • The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage.†   (source)
  • She could force him to do anything; in his clumsy, good-natured, inarticulate way he was as frightened of her as of the devil.†   (source)
  • Weird and low, an inarticulate voice, it wailed up from the desert, winding along the hollow trail, freeing itself in the wide air, and dying away.†   (source)
  • His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara.†   (source)
  • Being inarticulate, it was dubious in significance further than it seemed to indicate some capricious revulsion of thought or feeling such as mobs ashore are liable to, in the present instance possibly implying a sullen revocation on the men's part of their involuntary echoing of Billy's benediction.†   (source)
  • Life had become cheap and tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the ooze and slime.†   (source)
  • In the warm, breathless night air he heard a murmuring sound, perfectly inarticulate, as low as the sound of water coming from a spring, where there is no fall, and where there are no stones to fret it.†   (source)
  • She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Nor are the lower animals of England concerned about England, but in the tropics the indifference is more prominent, the inarticulate world is closer at hand and readier to resume control as soon as men are.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.†   (source)
  • He seized the Bible with his rough, huge hands; twice he raised it inarticulate, and then fairly burst into words, with rude and awful eloquence.†   (source)
  • It is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as wayward as Carol's.†   (source)
  • Here were these two, bandying little phrases, drawing purses, looking at cards, and both unconscious of how inarticulate all their real feelings were.†   (source)
  • In fact, he is now more Hamlet than Don Juan; for though the lines put into the actor's mouth to indicate to the pit that Hamlet is a philosopher are for the most part mere harmonious platitude which, with a little debasement of the word-music, would be properer to Pecksniff, yet if you separate the real hero, inarticulate and unintelligible to himself except in flashes of inspiration, from the performer who has to talk at any cost through five acts; and if you also do what you must always do in Shakespear's tragedies: that is, dissect out the absurd sensational incidents and physical violences of the borrowed story from the genuine Shakespearian tissue, you wil†   (source)
  • She was there for poor scared Mrs. Grose, but she was there most for Flora; and no moment of my monstrous time was perhaps so extraordinary as that in which I consciously threw out to her—with the sense that, pale and ravenous demon as she was, she would catch and understand it—an inarticulate message of gratitude.†   (source)
  • By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.†   (source)
  • Riggs wheeled with inarticulate cry.†   (source)
  • She was at a High School, at the inarticulate stage last time he was over, a round-eyed, pale-faced girl, with nothing of her mother in her, a silent stolid creature, who took it all as a matter of course, let her mother make a fuss of her, and then said "May I go now?" like a child of four; going off, Clarissa explained, with that mixture of amusement and pride which Dalloway himself seemed to rouse in her, to play hockey.†   (source)
  • Then he gave a sort of inarticulate cry, dropped candle and writ together, and went blundering down the dark passage to the stairs.†   (source)
  • His lips were flecked with a soapy froth, and sometimes he choked and gurgled and became inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Women—of whom he had expected so much; whose beauty he had hoped to transmute into modes of art; whose unfathomable instincts, marvellously incoherent and inarticulate, he had thought to perpetuate in terms of experience—had become merely consecrations to their own posterity.†   (source)
  • But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot.†   (source)
  • A moment later she added, inarticulate with rage: "No, but, don't you see, the filthy creature..." using unconsciously, and perhaps in satisfaction of the same obscure need to justify herself—like Francoise at Combray when the chicken refused to die—the very words which the last convulsions of an inoffensive animal in its death agony wring from the peasant who is engaged in taking its life.†   (source)
  • For a space Kemp was too inarticulate to make Adye understand the swift things that had just happened.†   (source)
  • They had sat for a few minutes on the fallen log by the pond, and she had missed her gold locket, and set the young men searching for it; and it was Ethan who had spied it in the moss....That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods... "It was right there I found your locket," he said, pushing his foot into a dense tuft of blueberry bushes.†   (source)
  • He came sliding down the rubbish and crept beside me in the darkness, inarticulate, gesticulating, and for a moment I shared his panic.†   (source)
  • The young girl stared at him in surprise and confusion,—faltered something inarticulate, and attempted to pass.†   (source)
  • Thus in the far-away Southern village the world lay waiting, half consciously, the coming of two young men, and dreamed in an inarticulate way of new things that would be done and new thoughts that all would think.†   (source)
  • I cried aloud in awful fear, a wild inarticulate cry; and I caught one glimpse of his face, malignant and triumphant, as his other hand compassed my body and I was drawn down to him in a terrible grip.†   (source)
  • Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict.†   (source)
  • At the sight of the Martian's collapse the captain on the bridge yelled inarticulately, and all the crowding passengers on the steamer's stern shouted together.†   (source)
  • She had in truth never seen him so shaken out of his usual glibness; and there was something almost moving to her in his inarticulate struggle with his emotions.†   (source)
  • The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.†   (source)
  • The sacrifice she had made had seemed unavailing enough; no trace remained in Lily of the subduing influences of that hour; but Gerty's tenderness, disciplined by long years of contact with obscure and inarticulate suffering, could wait on its object with a silent forbearance which took no account of time.†   (source)
  • He did not dispute now with Pavel Petrovitch, especially as the latter assumed an excessively aristocratic demeanour in his presence, and expressed his opinions more in inarticulate sounds than in words.†   (source)
  • It clung round his neck, and burst louder and louder into that mingling of inarticulate cries with "mammy" by which little children express the bewilderment of waking.†   (source)
  • The monotonous chanting of the celebrants, the responses of the people to the priest, sometimes inarticulate, sometimes thunderous, the harmonious trembling of the painted windows, the organ, bursting forth like a hundred trumpets, the three belfries, humming like hives of huge bees, that whole orchestra on which bounded a gigantic scale, ascending, descending incessantly from the voice of a throng to that of one bell, dulled her memory, her imagination, her grief.†   (source)
  • The assistant superintendent was so furious that for the first minute he could only splutter inarticulately.†   (source)
  • She lapsed into her inarticulate sounds, and unconsciously drew forth the article which she was fingering.†   (source)
  • "Pardon, gentlemen—par—" murmured the voice, which could now only be heard in inarticulate sounds.†   (source)
  • ...I am very feeble....So oft these days doth my memory play the traitor with me....'Tis strange, strange—" The King dropped into inarticulate mumblings, shaking his grey head weakly from time to time, and gropingly trying to recollect what he had done with the Seal.†   (source)
  • Her great indulgence of it was really the desire of a rather inarticulate nature to manifest itself; she sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume.†   (source)
  • Mr. Deane, he considered, was the "knowingest" man of his acquaintance, and he had besides a ready causticity of tongue that made an agreeable supplement to Mr. Tulliver's own tendency that way, which had remained in rather an inarticulate condition.†   (source)
  • Then he stops, and with more of those inarticulate sounds, lifts up his eyes and seems to stare at something.†   (source)
  • Madame de la Rochefidele had an aged, cadaverous face, with a falling of the lower jaw which prevented her from bringing her lips together, and reduced her conversations to a series of impressive but inarticulate gutturals.†   (source)
  • "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep.†   (source)
  • He used to nod many times to her and smile when she came in, and utter inarticulate deprecatory moans when she was going away.†   (source)
  • As if the poor, dumb heart, threatened,—prisoned,—took refuge in that inarticulate sanctuary of music, and found there a language in which to breathe its prayer to God!†   (source)
  • While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his vitality in him.†   (source)
  • Under him the water was lying in a deep pool, clear as a shadow; down a little way it tumbled with a roar over rocks; then there was another pool, and another cascade; and so on, out of view; and bridges and pools and resounding cascades said, plainly as inarticulate things can tell a story, the river was running by permission of a master, exactly as the master would have it, tractable as became a servant of the gods.†   (source)
  • The wind was rushing hurriedly behind the tapestries, and I wished to show her (what, let me confess it, I could not all believe) that those almost inarticulate breathings, and those very gentle variations of the figures upon the wall, were but the natural effects of that customary rushing of the wind.†   (source)
  • In a voice at first inarticulate with emotion, but gradually recovering strength as she proceeded, she answered him: 'I will not disguise from you, sir—though perhaps I ought—that I have undergone great pain of mind, and have been nearly broken-hearted since I saw you last.†   (source)
  • La Carconte muttered a few inarticulate words, then let her head again drop upon her knees, and went into a fit of ague, leaving the two speakers to resume the conversation, but remaining so as to be able to hear every word they uttered.†   (source)
  • Her sobs broke out afresh, and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door.†   (source)
  • Something frozen and fixed is upon his manner, over and above its usual shell of haughtiness, and Mr. Bucket soon detects an unusual slowness in his speech, with now and then a curious trouble in beginning, which occasions him to utter inarticulate sounds.†   (source)
  • The evening went by cheerfully till after tea, Dorothea talking more than usual and dilating with Mr. Farebrother on the possible histories of creatures that converse compendiously with their antennae, and for aught we know may hold reformed parliaments; when suddenly some inarticulate little sounds were heard which called everybody's attention.†   (source)
  • The little one, accustomed to be left to itself for long hours without notice from its mother, squatted down on the sack, and spread its tiny hands towards the blaze, in perfect contentment, gurgling and making many inarticulate communications to the cheerful fire, like a new-hatched gosling beginning to find itself comfortable.†   (source)
  • He saw her lips formed into a no, though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet.†   (source)
  • The west wind whispered in the ivy round me; but no gentle Ariel borrowed its breath as a medium of speech: the birds sang in the tree-tops; but their song, however sweet, was inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.†   (source)
  • "Goodness gracious!" aunt Pullet exclaimed, after preluding by an inarticulate scream; "keep her at the door, Sally!†   (source)
  • Yet, after prolonged exertions, he could only succeed in getting the drunken man to utter absurd grunts, and violent, but inarticulate oaths.†   (source)
  • Seed of the Church's spoiler, close thy perishing eyes, an' thou fearest to look upon—" The rest was lost in inarticulate mutterings.†   (source)
  • of his own; if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought; if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word to indicate that all is understood; if to these qualifications of a confidant be joined the advantages afforded by his recognised character as a physician;—then, at some inevitable moment, will the soul of the sufferer be dissolved, and flow forth in a dark but transparent stream, bringing all its mysteries int†   (source)
  • Always inarticulate and stifled.†   (source)
  • ' "Get to thy own room!" he said, in a voice almost inarticulate with passion; and his face looked swelled and furious.†   (source)
  • He even thought he could perceive something on the ground at a distance; he ventured to call, and it seemed to him that the wind wafted back an almost inarticulate sigh.†   (source)
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