Adjective : a scene of inexpressible beauty. From Dictionary.com.
That ere young woman's woke up from her dream ", (he lengthened the word inexpressibly)" by this time, that she is. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
The place was sacred and inexpressibly dear to him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
And one of those inexpressibly balmy days followed. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
It swung inward with a slowness inexpressibly aggravating. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Oh, once more, dear friend -- alas, too inexpressibly dear!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Oh how inexpressibly mournful were their chants that night!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
He was inexpressibly surprised to find his mother not at the Manse. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
I was inexpressibly shocked to learn that your mother suffered want. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Her voice was remarkably sweet and soft, her whole attitude inexpressibly gentle. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
There was something inexpressibly anxious and affectionate in her manner and tone. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
A child -- pale and wan, but with an inexpressibly sweet face -- stood before them. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
It is true that while he helped her there he tortured her otherwhere inexpressibly. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Even this very night, how inexpressibly happy had it made her to see him in the room. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
There could be no doubt that something or some one was suffering inexpressibly not twenty yards away. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
Now it wearied him inexpressibly; it seemed to be hammering in his ears; he wanted to get away from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
It's sprawling and messy and pretty great, even if Minaj is inexpressibly awful, and Iver is underused. From Wordnik.com. [Singles file: Kanye West f. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj] Reference
I was inexpressibly shocked at this summons, for I had not supposed it possible for her to die so soon. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
As I draw near she seems to sit closer, her eyes growing large with an inexpressibly wild, beautiful look. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Her few letters give us occasional flashes of the old spirit, but the burden of them is inexpressibly sad. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
In mean streets and alleys it was inexpressibly dreary: the fagged inhabitants lacked even energy to quarrel. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Of all wars, civil wars are the most inexpressibly saddening; and this terrible struggle was largely of that type. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
During these dark days Janetta was inexpressibly touched by the marks of sympathy that reached her from all sides. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
His eyes moistened, and he spoke in an inexpressibly tender tone -- the tone of a mother when speaking to her child. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
How does the poet suggest the idea that the game is still being continued though it is now an inexpressibly sad one?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
She grew sad, inexpressibly sad; her look lost its brightness, her voice its cheery tone and her step its elasticity. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
This time it was still more dreary, being attended by a show of processional pomp, inexpressibly forlorn and squalid. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
She heard the voice of her beloved in the sough of the wind among the trees, and it made her inexpressibly melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
How inexpressibly more terrible do our untold terrors become, when they are spoken in our ears by the lips of strangers!. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
She missed her pets inexpressibly, but the rest of the household, it must be confessed, enjoyed their absence thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
Were it not the least bit saddening, the contemplation of this attempt to buy up fervid sentiment would be inexpressibly funny. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The manner and style of the communication were inexpressibly insolent, and were no doubt meant as a studied affront and challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
With his heart in his eyes, he watched the swaying form rise, and was inexpressibly relieved when he saw her clear the brim safely. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
If they love the good, the high of soul and large of heart, they will be happy, inexpressibly happy in the action of their affections. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Drawing her tall form up to its full height, and looking at him with her closed eyes, she said, in a voice inexpressibly sad and tender. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She was so lovely in her discomposure, so inexpressibly winning, that I sat there with my heart throbbing as it had never throbbed before. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
If either misfortune had occurred, it was solely in consequence of his zeal for my character, and the thought inexpressibly distressed me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
To talk coherently, to be lively and make oneself agreeable, to have to think about one's dress, -- it all seemed inexpressibly wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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