Adjective : ineffable joy. ,the ineffable name of the deity. From Dictionary.com.
The peace and peril of the moment were ineffably sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
It was a solemn stillness, but ineffably sweet and tender. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
And in precisely the same ineffably endearing relation did. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
She looked so ineffably wretched that his heart ached for her. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
It is ineffably beautiful while keenly attentive to suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Gordon: Try a Little Truthfulness] Reference
Outside, a spring bunting was still singing, sweetly, ineffably. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
One short paragraph, containing two ineffably weak arguments, does the business. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He smiled ineffably and evidently thought that he was offering us food for the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
It was the same ineffably sweet and disarming smile with which her brother had favoured him. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
There is something ineffably comical and endearing about these soberly strutting barnyard fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Tillie Lays an Egg] Reference
Like many things that have become ineffably British, tweed was largely a 19th-century invention. From Wordnik.com. [Cut From Woven Cloth] Reference
But something in his eyes held her back, something ineffably sad that she had not seen there before. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
"That's Complicated," he said ineffably for how could the wish to escape inordinate grief be expressed?. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
For this conjunction of his with us was an act of his own mind and will, wherein he is ineffably glorious. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
Here the aim is to agitate for and promote the ineffably expressive and heartfelt wonders of ballet dancing. From Wordnik.com. [New From Ratmansky and Tharp] Reference
And could anything express the state of young Reginald's mind so ineffably as the primer type of his letter to. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The towers, the turrets, the spires, the heavy slate roofs-all of it was ineffably beautiful and ineffably grand. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Charlotte Simmons] Reference
The boots and clothing looked new, and somehow ineffably French, despite their lack of anything resembling fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
When this form of love is seen, it appears ineffably beautiful, and affects with delight the inmost life of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
‘Crowther opposed our marriage from the start,’ she went on, her voice very small and ineffably sad in the sunlit room. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
Side by side, these eight paintings are ineffably elegant, and somehow sumptuous, despite the apparent poverty of the images. From Wordnik.com. [A season for Twombly] Reference
Though Hermès is grouped with other luxury brands, it hovers ineffably higher, apart, and not only because it is more costly. From Wordnik.com. [From Hermes to Eternity] Reference
Teeter was an ineffably cautious man, and he hastened to add that the election was going to be closer than most people thought. From Wordnik.com. [America Changes The Guard] Reference
We thought we should hold off on recirculating this fabulously tasty and ineffably daft rumour until we had some video footage. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Jobs and the ninja throwing stars: the video!] Reference
The flavor, the texture, the variety and of course, the caffeine all combine to, well, do something to me that is ineffably good. From Wordnik.com. [on the highest mount in Wales] Reference
He took her face between his hands and kissed her on the mouth -- not passionately, but with the ineffably sad calmness of farewell. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
The ineffably bright lancers that stand guard over the elemental hosts are the light brigade with which to rout the vitalistic enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
The once glorious, but now forlorn spirits, leaning for one fate-burthened instant their trust upon the spirits ineffably favoured!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Each has its expression, its ineffably tender idea, not more clearly formulized, it is true, than those which music conveys, yet quite as delicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The medallions are a series of little grotesques, some of them ineffably entertaining, and others expressive of real depth of knowledge and thought. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
There are probably few amongst us who have not, at one time or another, experienced that ineffably exquisite sensation caused by the sudden cessation of intense and wearing pain. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
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