He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant] Reference
Then to the utterable and sometimes very loud dark of that woman Harriet. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
In a situation of peril to life and in marriage, falsehood becomes utterable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
In a situation involving the loss of one's entire property, falsehood becomes utterable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It became clear fairly quickly that the trees wouldn't be things of un-utterable joy, though. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Whenever a human being utters meaningful speech, he chooses from a range of utterable sound-combinations. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Camp:Can Intelligent Design be considered scientific in the same way that SETI is? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Truth may be unutterable, and even falsehood may be utterable where falsehood would become truth and truth would become falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Lilli Mokganyetsi's story conveyed profound meanings that went beyond the immediate, beyond the apparent, beyond the chronological, beyond the coherent or the utterable. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
For even so self-guaranteeing a statement as the self-predication ˜The Beautiful itself is beautiful™ could not be truly utterable unless the Form referred to endured long enough for the predicate to be attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Cratylus] Reference
This point being so far settled, I felt a little less uncomfortable: when being one day alone in my bedroom, I happened to look out from the window, and, to my un - utterable horror, I beheld, peering through an opposite casement, my cousin. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers] Reference
In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XX] Reference
In the set, tightly drawn lips were the tell-tale signs of an utterable resolve. From Wordnik.com. [The Two-Gun Man] Reference
Plunged in utterable sorrow humanity shall ere long recognize its irreparable loss. From Wordnik.com. [Messages to America] Reference
Concerning things utterable and things unutterable, and things knowable and thing unknowable. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
But the knowable belongs to one order, and the utterable to another; just as it is one thing to speak and another thing to know. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
The writer of these essays, where every word is perfectly in place, certainly could not agree with Carlyle's notion that "No speech ever uttered or utterable is worth comparison with silence.". From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Maisie had so little desire to assert the contrary that she found herself, in the intensity of her response, throbbing with a joy still less utterable than the essence of the Captain's admiration. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
It was no more than this, perhaps: that the world as I knew it was not large enough to contain all that I saw and felt; that the thoughts that flashed through my mind, not half understood, unrelated to my utterable thoughts, concerned something for which I had as yet no name. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
Things have come to a pretty pass, I must say, if men are to be blamed for exercising the power which is supposed to distinguish them from the beasts – a point of view that reaches its pinnacle of absurdity in Carlyle's famous remark, "No speech ever uttered or utterable is worth comparison with silence.". From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Clear evidence, satisfactory even to my friend Dryasdust, exists that, on the contrary, they honoured, loved, admired this ancient Landlord to a quite astonishing degree, -- and indeed at last to an immeasurable and inexpressible degree; for, finding no limits or utterable words for their sense of his worth, they took to beatifying and adoring him!. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import -- an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
Poetry laid a hand on him: his desire of the wife, the children, the citizen's good name -- of these our simple civilized ambitions -- was lowly of the earth, throbbing of earth, and at the same time magnified beyond scope of speech in vast images and emblems resembling ranges of Olympian cloud round the blue above earth, all to be decipherable, all utterable, when she was by. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import -- an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry of the Islands] Reference
A hand on him: his desire of the wife, the children, the citizen's good name -- of these our simple civilized ambitions -- was lowly of the earth, throbbing of earth, and at the same time magnified beyond scope of speech in vast images and emblems resembling ranges of Olympian cloud round the blue above earth, all to be decipherable, all utterable, when she was by. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
If this be utterable!. From Wordnik.com. [Prometheus Bound] Reference
Not utterable. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
"utterable and wonderful.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution] Reference
(link) http://www. redstate.com/veronicaestrada/2009/12/28/green-tech-and-non-profits-the-un-utterable-word-to-describe-those-who-sell-themselves-for/. From Wordnik.com. [Report AGW federal funding fraud! Win valuable prizes! - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
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