An uncomprehended mystery. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Exchange the terms for the terms the "uncomprehended" and the "incomprehensible," and we will walk side by side. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
The universe is still considerably uncomprehended by science. From Wordnik.com. [More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
And Clara herself seemed so utterly unknown and uncomprehended!. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
In Lois's hopeful, warm life this was the one uncomprehended monster. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
She was still a spectacle, an historical record, an uncomprehended motive. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Some force unseen, uncomprehended, is roughly thrusting me out of my flat. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
An idealistic artist had revealed for once living tints and uncomprehended hues. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
But they had survived and he, at least, had been changed in ways as yet uncomprehended. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
And, like most things uncomprehended, the knights would always be worshiped, feared, and reviled. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
Genius sees that many an exception is fruit of some larger law, is not imperfection, but uncomprehended perfection. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
One is set wondering, indeed, whence, by virtue of what mysterious uncomprehended forces, this passion had come upon him. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
Then Beth would lie still sobbing silently, and wretched as only a lonely, uncomprehended, and uncomplaining child can be. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
First hidden in the electron cast up by the waves of the Baltic, it was left there, uncomprehended and barren, till our century. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
I don't know if she would have boasted quite so happily if she had realized how much of it was sailing past totally uncomprehended. From Wordnik.com. [A Prayer for Owen Meany - a review] Reference
If technical terms, uncomprehended by any class of readers, be used, it is simply for the sake of brevity; and because, as Kant says. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
He was a man of deep and ardent imagination, and uncomprehended by the simple villagers, who irreverently styled him the 'mad Roseton.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Here is its type and history, "touching a county newspaper, --" a fair type, with its cant, and bigotry, and weight of uncomprehended fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Gentleman Geoff's Billie with mingled emotions in which pride and respectful awe predominated, but to Kearn Thode it came as an uncomprehended disaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
In a smother of strange, uncomprehended emotions, she was gropingly glad she had the new hat -- glad she had it on now, and that Mrs. Staggart herself had adjusted it. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
But her eyes of uncomprehended pain were still upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Branding Iron] Reference
A tumultuous, uncomprehended pain wrenched his very soul. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
Yet her eyes were like stars, and in an uncomprehended way the woman felt the charm of her beauty. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
Once before she had had such a fleeting, uncomprehended vision into the murky depths of the man's soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
Then she smiled at me, a smile of noble patience, of uncomprehended sacrifice, which I can never forget. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Twin and Other Stories] Reference
Hoho-hebee Falls seemed to him louder, full of strange, uncomprehended meanings, and insistent iteration. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895] Reference
But, in more than the ordinary sense of the word, Caroline Montfort never had been a woman uncomprehended. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Mr. Emlyn, all that land which an uncomprehended girl seizes and reigns over when she becomes wife and mother. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
Then his voice grew sterner and his eyes flashed, as, uncomprehended by those for whom he was spokesman, he cried. From Wordnik.com. [In the Mahdi's Grasp] Reference
This sight gave the young bull a new and uncomprehended fury, under the impulse of which he would have attacked an elephant. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
Instinctively he drew Sah-luma away. ... away! ... still keeping his wistful gaze fixed on that uncomprehended, yet soul-recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
A colossal soul, he lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long local distance to be seen; suggest, as. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
At that strange, uncomprehended sound of human laughter the eagles ceased their screaming for a few moments and wheeled farther aloof. From Wordnik.com. [Kings in Exile] Reference
Feet tramped across the creaking boards, approaching him; a palm fell upon his shoulder; a crisp voice rang out uncomprehended at his ear. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
But what is love if it can think any sacrifice, short of duty and honour, too great to offer up unknown uncomprehended, to the one beloved?. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
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