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  • Marsha could never quite get used to hearing women screaming and hollering inexplicably throughout the night in a crowded dorm.†   (source)
  • And now, someplace beyond death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped into a snowbank, stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven.†   (source)
  • An inexplicable mirage was materializing near the center of the room.†   (source)
  • But inexplicable was the operative word here.†   (source)
  • He giggled as he elbowed Thomas in the ribs, a high-pitched snicker that inexplicably made Thomas like him more.†   (source)
  • Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind?†   (source)
  • The Los Angeles people were not very cordial and looked down on her for some inexplicable reason; she could not get a word in with them edgewise.†   (source)
  • It was dark now, the night air cooling, but the campus was inexplicably warm, and illuminated by hundreds of torches bursting with amber light.†   (source)
  • Yeah, it's nothing," Spencer said, and inexplicably felt an overwhelming wave of despair.†   (source)
  • We were used to the Saturday matinees at the decrepit Gravesend movie house, inexplicably called The Idaho—after the faraway western state or the potato of that name, we never knew.†   (source)
  • Inexplicable, seemingly undeserved misfortune is contagious.†   (source)
  • That was the real threat to be dealing with, not some mysterious, inexplicable evil Elena had mentioned.†   (source)
  • Emma made frequent and passionate arguments as to why I should stay, none of which acknowledged the life I would be abandoning (however meager it seemed), or how the sudden inexplicable disappearance of their only child might affect my parents, or the stifling suffocation that Emma herself had admitted feeling inside the loop.†   (source)
  • And that leaves me with the belief that miracles , no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur Without regard to the natural order of things .†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, his rent at the Albany had gone down.†   (source)
  • And there were truly inexplicable things.†   (source)
  • Watching it, he feels a sudden, inexplicable surge of tenderness and joy.†   (source)
  • These doubts started when he suddenly, inexplicably, stopped raving about her cooking.†   (source)
  • I would overtake high school in a matter of days, not years, or, inexplicably, earn an Oscar for Best Actress during my junior year.†   (source)
  • When her garden cherub's silver arc dried up inexplicably, it was Dr. Velutha who fixed its bladder for her.†   (source)
  • At which point a strange and inexplicable sound thrilled suddenly through the bridge—a noise as of a distant fanfare; a hollow, reedy, insubstantial sound.†   (source)
  • What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable.†   (source)
  • But what happened with Avianca was just so strange, so seemingly inexplicable, that it demanded a more complete explanation than simply that Klotz was incompetent and the captain was tired.†   (source)
  • "Just a precaution," he said inexplicably.†   (source)
  • So then it was her turn to talk, to try to explain what felt inexplicable.†   (source)
  • Something inexplicable was happening.†   (source)
  • Our lives had collided without plan or warning, two strangers thrown together by a burst of inexplicable violence.†   (source)
  • She shrugged again, a silent comment about the inexplicable desires of the nobility.†   (source)
  • I glanced up, and he was staring at me, that same inexplicable look of frustration in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Mostly nobody notices, except they visit another ship or station and suddenly find things inexplicably more comfortable.†   (source)
  • They've told us about some of the inexplicable things that archaeology sometimes reveals.†   (source)
  • I had never believed Link when he claimed school dances had some sort of inexplicable effect on girls.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, he sounded put out with the men who brought their adding machines to the Bible convention, and possibly with the Bible itself.†   (source)
  • He could see that limp hand dangling over the edge of the tub with blood running down one finger, the third, and that inexplicable word so much more horrible than any of the others: REDRUM.†   (source)
  • But it was inexplicable that she continued to wear her black robes, and it grated on him a bit, for she did not pray, and she avoided speaking their language, and she avoided their people, and s, sometimes he wanted to shout, well take it off then, and then he would wince inwardly, since he believed he loved her, and his resentment, when it bubbled up like this, made him angry with himself, with the man he seemed to be becoming, a less than romantic man, which was not the sort of man he believed a man should aspire to be.†   (source)
  • They collect strange— or inexplicable—experiences When such experiences— taken from the lives of billions of people—are assembled into books, it begins to look like genuine data.†   (source)
  • I searched the corridors for her, the side streets, even the ballroom, where some almost inexplicable dread came over me at the thought of her there alone.†   (source)
  • Hodge hesitated—only for a moment, but Clary saw it, and felt a small and inexplicable shiver of apprehension run up her spine.†   (source)
  • A three-dimensional marquee hangs above it, announcing tonight's event: a benefit graphics concert staged on behalf of Da5id Meier, who is still hospitalized with an inexplicable disease.†   (source)
  • One morning she saw her grandmother opening the bird cages with inexplicable joy.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, he hesitated—for a bit of showy footwork, a juke to the left, a feint back to the right.†   (source)
  • I threw the discus, then stared in horror as a gust of wind made it veer, inexplicably, toward Hyacinthus's handsome face.†   (source)
  • In a very short while, however, she realized that he was behaving with inexplicable evasiveness, as if it was true, as if he were not sixty years older than she, but sixty years younger.†   (source)
  • It was inexplicable.†   (source)
  • The officials, inexplicably, called a penalty on Coach Meyer for being too far on the field.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," I say, and then Xander's act of kindness inexplicably makes me feel a little like crying, so I have to joke instead.†   (source)
  • Was there some inexplicable link between us that allowed it to happen?†   (source)
  • He felt it, cool in his own, and was washed with an inexplicable relief, believing, for a moment, that nothing had changed; that nothing stood between them after all.†   (source)
  • S/he develops behaviors or abilities that are inexplicable, dangerous, or cause you or others physical harm.†   (source)
  • He just looked at me in that quiet sad way that made me inexplicably want to kneel at the foot of his chair and put my head in his lap.†   (source)
  • But suddenly she felt weary and inexplicably sad.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he leaps up in the middle of nothing at all and goes off, inexplicably, no one knows where.†   (source)
  • The spleen was inexplicably damaged.†   (source)
  • She suffered inexplicable fevers and headaches that persisted for months, and she lost some of the weight she had recently put on.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, and swallow, inexplicably disappointed.†   (source)
  • Then, with cord and adhesive tape supplied by the killer, Mr. Clutter bound and gagged his wife, bound his daughter (who, inexplicably, had not been gagged), and roped them to their beds.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, or maybe not, Dexter suddenly popped into my head, watching me through a bent disposable camera.†   (source)
  • A thing all but inexplicable in that landscape.†   (source)
  • His life had been ruined—surprisingly, inexplicably, swiftly, but ruined for sure.†   (source)
  • Outside, Pecola feels the inexplicable shame ebb.†   (source)
  • Did I not just say it was inexplicable?†   (source)
  • Whatever their plans or however little time remained in the "season for action," they seemed, inexplicably, in no hurry whatever.†   (source)
  • He had come to feel an inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger; she seemed a child to him, a child someone had put in a bulrush basket daubed with pitch and sent downstream for Tomas to fetch at the riverbank of his bed.†   (source)
  • Both blood and sperm are explosive, irregular, feeling-pitched, messy—and inexplicably fascinating!†   (source)
  • To classmates, later to his students, Farmer's medical memory seemed encyclopedic and daunting, but it was not inexplicable.†   (source)
  • If there was no rain at all, there were freakish, inexplicable phenomena like the epidemic of diarrhea or the bomb line that moved.†   (source)
  • "Get rid of all this," Vicky says with a sniffle, lifting up a limp layer of lace that hangs, inexplicably, from the gown's bodice.†   (source)
  • They were confusing showmanship and inexplicable events with divinity.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, the guard nodded and hooked a fat thumb over his shoulder toward the suits of armor where Max was hiding.†   (source)
  • Instead, we sat wretchedly nursing overpriced beers through extra innings as Martinez inexplicably stayed in and Red Sox Nation's hopes and dreams collapsed with the team.†   (source)
  • On October 18, Oswald gets a birthday surprise: the Cuban embassy in Mexico City has inexplicably reversed itself and granted him a travel visa.†   (source)
  • Then she and her date were gone, swept away by the crowd, leaving me with an inexplicable smile on my lips.†   (source)
  • The long day above ground, the close, overgrown combe, the frightening story in which they had been absorbed, the sudden appearance of the fox, the shock of Bigwig's inexplicable adventure—all these, following one upon another, had flooded their spirits and left them dull and bemused.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, inexplicably, the Black Dragon turned sharply, and, picking up speed, began to come straight at the Indigo Dragon.†   (source)
  • For some inexplicable reason he was left out of this.†   (source)
  • An inexplicable fear smothered him.†   (source)
  • Outside the Indus Hotel, two black Toyota double-cabs with distinctive light blue United Arab Emirates plates and the word SURF inexplicably stenciled on the doors were angled up to the entrance, their tailgates jutting out and blocking the progress of jeep drivers who wouldn't dare to honk their horns.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, Hassan loves it here, and also we seem to have gotten jobs.†   (source)
  • Thedriver was meant to turn right and skirt its edges, but instead, he inexplicably plunged straight into the sea of people.†   (source)
  • Astonished and confused, the old Frenchman stood motionless, trying to make sense out of the inexplicable.†   (source)
  • The old man, an honorary groundskeeper of sorts, lifted a faded copper can and let a stream of water drizzle onto the beds of the most inexplicably red roses.†   (source)
  • Other family members, inexplicably unable or unwilling to be a part of my life?†   (source)
  • The headline running along the rim of the hat said, inexplicably, "Greeks Make Bridges of Gold for the Rest of 1964."†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, she felt a touch of feminine vanity, the kind she had never experienced before: the desire to be seen wearing this particular ornament.†   (source)
  • I like to think it was my promise and the thought of Sophie's safety that kept me there; but I do remember also how black it looked outside, and how full of inexplicable sounds and movements the darkness seemed to be.†   (source)
  • He was overcome by a sense of falling, as from a great height, as though his Honda had driven off the freeway into an inexplicable and bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • It's important because it's inexplicable.†   (source)
  • But inexplicably I began stringing the legend back upon myself.†   (source)
  • Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.†   (source)
  • Some are downright inexplicable.†   (source)
  • None more so than Ira: the transformation in her was as astonishing as it was inexplicable.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there in the quarter, when they nursed themselves, they got well; they all seemed to have an inexplicable knowledge of the curative power of the roots and herbs that grew in the woods and the meadows.†   (source)
  • But a goodly part of our experience which we find inexplicable must be like that.†   (source)
  • And if death, and sorrow, and the inexplicable joy that comes from triumph over death and sorrow, if these themes are predominant in my work, past and future, it is because they dominate my memory.†   (source)
  • She put in a station call to The Greek Way in San Francisco, gave the musical voice that answered a description of the acned, fuzz-headed Inamorato Anonymous she'd talked to there and waited, inexplicable tears beginning to build up pressure around her eyes.†   (source)
  • It was a most inexplicable object, and nothing I had ever heard of in my study of natural history seemed to fit it.†   (source)
  • So they came into the Celestial City, riding on the backs of the cousins of the Garuda Bird, spinning down in sky gondolas, rising up through arteries of the mountains, blazing across the snow-soaked, ice-tracked wastes, to make Milehigh Spire to ring with their song, to laugh through a spell of brief and inexplicable darkness that descended and dispersed again, shortly; and in the days and nights of their coming, it was said by the poet Adasay that they resembled at least six different things (he was always lavish with his similes): a migration of birds, bright birds, across a waveless ocean of milk; a procession of musical notes through the mind of a slightl†   (source)
  • There was something subtly and inexplicably wrong, and had I been able to use a turn of phrase current some years later, I might have said that Yetta's house gave off bad vibrations.†   (source)
  • Once, when my train came to one of those inexplicable stops in open country, this happened: Out there was spread around us a long, high valley, a green peaceful stretch of Tennessee with distant farmhouses and, threading off toward planted fields, a little foot path.†   (source)
  • Your rescue will be completely inexplicable to them, for you must have vanished before their eyes.†   (source)
  • His fishing rods, hanging by their tips from a length of pegboard, inexplicably swayed in rhythm.†   (source)
  • But since it was his father who had pulled the emergency release, it looked as if the train had stopped for such an inexplicably long time because of them.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown dismissed school early one chilly day in March when the water pump inexplicably quit working.†   (source)
  • He was appalled by this inexplicable betrayal, and the hardness of her mouth as she struggled with self-astonishment and repentance was even more ominous.†   (source)
  • Greeting her, he was suddenly inexplicably afraid to ask anything about the evening.†   (source)
  • At a birthday party for a friend, he stumbled inexplicably.†   (source)
  • Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable.†   (source)
  • With that he turned away and once again started inexplicably walking toward the wall.†   (source)
  • For some inexplicable reason, those words popped into Thomas's mind.†   (source)
  • My shoes and undergarments are inexplicably unaffected.†   (source)
  • Then, inexplicably, my palms begin to sweat.†   (source)
  • Ruth May's condition pitched suddenly into decline, as inexplicably as it had earlier improved.†   (source)
  • But, inexplicably, it still called to him.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, the wires were gone, as was the raft.†   (source)
  • What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable magic.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, everyone here thinks he's clever and delightful.†   (source)
  • I tuned him out to consider the jumble of inexplicable images churning chaotically in my head.†   (source)
  • Their lovemaking was reaching its frenzied peak when the inexplicable occurred.†   (source)
  • He was very rude to me, inexplicably so.†   (source)
  • My first arrow hits his chest and inexplicably falls aside.†   (source)
  • And that led, inexplicably, to the memory of the children in the temple plaza in Ors.†   (source)
  • I stared down at my hand, covered in that inexplicably fertile soil.†   (source)
  • One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.†   (source)
  • Josh felt a sudden inexplicable pang of jealousy.†   (source)
  • He felt an inexplicable pain in his soul ....an aching sadness he could not explain.†   (source)
  • Stay here," and set off after Valentine, who was hurrying, inexplicably, toward the far wall.†   (source)
  • Then, inexplicably, Chuck was there, diving in front of him.†   (source)
  • Has a hovercraft inexplicably plucked her into the air?†   (source)
  • I suspected that Jessica enjoyed my inexplicable popularity more than my actual company.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow, strangely, inexplicably, it was the same Siri who stood before me now.†   (source)
  • "And I can't help but think you inexplicably, unexpectedly naive," said the head priest.†   (source)
  • She's not ready to see it, and you two are so inexplicably connected.†   (source)
  • When he finally opened his eyes again, the image before him was totally inexplicable.†   (source)
  • And then there was the one that said, inexplicably, in green, CRAZY PERSON.†   (source)
  • It's just a kiss," he said, and though his tone was harsh, his hands were inexplicably gentle.†   (source)
  • Believing for some inexplicable reason that he might be in the crowd.†   (source)
  • Even for Alec, who was prone to the occasional fit of inexplicable sullenness, this was obnoxious.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, correspondence from Jefferson had dwindled to a standstill.†   (source)
  • Max caught his breath as the dreadnoughts came to a sudden, inexplicable halt.†   (source)
  • Even the smell was the same, that inexplicable mix of disinfectant and florals.†   (source)
  • For the riot had inexplicably subsided, leaving the customers bewildered.†   (source)
  • Its door has proven inexplicably difficult.†   (source)
  • If for some inexplicable reason you need me, I'll be in my room, 913, hopefully sleeping.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, Will felt a strange wave of relief.†   (source)
  • It's just dinner," I said as he snapped another picture, this one, inexplicably, of my feet.†   (source)
  • An inexplicable hope skipped like a thrown stone across the lake-dark surface of his heart.†   (source)
  • In the end, beauty was inexplicable, a matter of grace rather than of the intellect, like a song.†   (source)
  • He'd rummaged through the refrigerator and found this envelope with cool bills, new, inexplicable.†   (source)
  • Abruptly, inexplicably, Pollard wavered.†   (source)
  • In the fever of battle, though, he forgot to account for the dwarf's inexplicable speed.†   (source)
  • She was astonished when Dagny accepted it with inexplicable eagerness, for once like a child.†   (source)
  • ....But then, there are many inexplicable things in Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • Two blonde women appeared inexplicably at the beach behind the north wall and bathed in the nude.†   (source)
  • She felt that the inexplicable was not a mere blank, this time: it had a tinge of evil.†   (source)
  • Now inexplicably drawn, Tom ran up the shore toward the cliff.†   (source)
  • inexplicable suicide," the newspapers had called it, unable to discover any motive.†   (source)
  • The trip to Florida was not inexplicable to him any longer.†   (source)
  • I could make things neat and tidy again by deciding to forget the small inexplicables.†   (source)
  • They constituted an inexplicably intact island in the midst of a sea of ruins.†   (source)
  • She might die on the way, because of those inexplicable sleeping seizures.†   (source)
  • I did an inexplicable and, I'm afraid, craven thing then.†   (source)
  • How to diagnose amnesias with no discernible physical manifestation, or certain inexplicable and radical alterations of the personality?†   (source)
  • She found an inexplicable refuge in his eyes ....like the harmony of the oceans she had left behind early that morning.†   (source)
  • At that very moment, Hermione appeared at his shoulder; she was holding her cloak over her head and was, inexplicably, beaming.†   (source)
  • Hermione was acting as though she was quite oblivious to all of this, but once or twice Harry saw an inexplicable smirk cross her face.†   (source)
  • He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable fluidity, as if be were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate prescience.†   (source)
  • She had seen Lady Luck for a bare, brief moment, as wonderful, puzzling, and inexplicable as a bright fairy dancing under mushrooms in the dewy light of dawn ...seen once, never again.†   (source)
  • His parents' graves were only part of the attraction: He had a strong, though inexplicable, feeling that the place held answers for him.†   (source)
  • Kathy had known for a decade that her husband was one of those inexplicably solid, self-sufficient, and never-needy men who got by on air and water, impervious to injury or disease—but still she wondered how he sustained himself.†   (source)
  • That's why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable, because it is the nature of all of us to be volatile and inexplicable.†   (source)
  • An inexplicable peace.†   (source)
  • Hanging from a few nails on the wall were old dresses, feather boas, squalid bits of fur, imitation rhine-stone necklaces, hats that had gone out of style fifty years before, stained petticoats with threadbare lace, dresses that were once flashy and whose sheen had long since disappeared, inexplicable admirals' jackets and bishops' chasubles, all thrown together in grotesque fraternity, in which the dust of years had made its nest.†   (source)
  • Her husband's outbursts were inexplicable and the attacks were not often so severe that she was actually injured.†   (source)
  • Some claimed they were drawn here by the powerful magnetic field that emanated inexplicably from these coordinates, some claimed they came to search the hillside for a hidden entrance to the vault, but most admitted they had come simply to wander the grounds and absorb the lore of the Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • Steel gliding and thumping over steel, the great bolted sheets of it high above her in the gloom, an inexplicable door sunk into the brickwork, mighty cast-iron pipework clamped in rusting brackets and carrying no one knew what—such brutal invention belonged to a race of supermen.†   (source)
  • Most of the time he was able to put this thought aside and not worry about it, but it had been reawakened by the sudden, inexplicable arrival of Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, Torontonians clutter their brick and stone houses with too much trim, or with window trim and shutters—and they also carve their shutters with hearts or maple leaves— but the snow conceals these frills; and on some days, like today, when the snow is especially wet and heavy, the snow turns even the brick houses white.†   (source)
  • He was not interested in the parchments, which he thought of more as an esoteric pastime, but his attention was attracted by the rare wisdom and the inexplicable knowledge of the world that his desolate kinsman had.†   (source)
  • And it is my hunch that the ponds reached down to the sides of this huge, buoyant mass and opened onto the ocean, which explained the otherwise inexplicable presence in them of dorados and other fish of the open seas.†   (source)
  • And still there were those inexplicable times when Malfoy simply vanished from the map...But Harry did not get a lot of time to consider the problem, what with Quidditch practice, homework, and the fact that he was now being dogged wherever he went by Cormac McLaggen and Lavender Brown.†   (source)
  • Quickly I slid it out, and almost immediately its glow enveloped me, something almost musical, an internal sweetness that was inexplicable beyond a deep, blood-rocking harmony of rightness, the way your heart beat slow and sure when you were with a person you felt safe with and loved.†   (source)
  • Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but her inexplicable familiarity.†   (source)
  • Alarmed, they looked out into the hall, and Pedro was forced to explain that Pulque did this type of inexplicable thing lately, perhaps because he was getting old, but that everything was under control.†   (source)
  • Sent psychologists out to these people's houses, gave them a free TV set to submit to an anonymous interview, hooked them to polygraphs, studied their brain waves as they showed them choppy, inexplicable movies of porn queens and late-night car crashes and Sammy Davis, Jr., put them in sweet-smelling, mauve-walled rooms and asked them questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn't respond without committing a venial sin.†   (source)
  • He rolled along with every inexplicable order from his superiors, every foolish act of his inferiors, and every abrasive personality that military life could throw at an officer.†   (source)
  • Mr. Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.†   (source)
  • An inexplicable peace.†   (source)
  • Nicolas walked to the bed and tried to recall the dark, supple Amanda, the fruity, sinuous Amanda of their encounters in the darkness of the locked rooms, but between the caked wool of the shawl and the gray sheets there was a strange woman with huge, lost eyes who was staring at him with inexplicable harshness.†   (source)
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