It was at such an hour, and in such a state of tranquillity I sat, when, to my unexpressible amazement. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
O what an unexpressible love hath she for you now! and with what imbraces and kisses she entertains you, because you have furnish'd her shop so well!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Do but behold, in the mean time, what an unexpressible Pleasure your dearly Beloved hath in the tricking up of her sweet Baby in the most neatest dresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
My Joy was unexpressible, both upon his Account and my own. From Wordnik.com. [Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6] Reference
But, oh! how would my heart, at such times, put forth itself with unexpressible groanings. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners]
A fair cow -- An utterly obnoxious and otherwise unexpressible person, place, thing, or circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke] Reference
Not one tenth of the things that might have been said was actually spoken; the greater part was unexpressed, perhaps unexpressible. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Warwick] Reference
He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equally-proportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equally—proportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 100-143] Reference
The fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, Forgive me, friend, brother, sister!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Day In the Light of Prophecy] Reference
When John first brought out the bills, the surprise of all the family was unexpressible at the prodigious dimensions of them; they would have measured with the best bale of cloth in John's shop. From Wordnik.com. [History of John Bull] Reference
For those who have not been submitted, as we have, for four years to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, or, in a word, the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first allied troops made their way through our village. From Wordnik.com. [Official History of the 120th Infantry] Reference
For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War)] Reference
The answer is one of the most touching and beautiful passages in the poem, summing up in language of radiant gladness the law of Heaven that in "God's will is our peace," words which Gladstone says "appear to have an unexpressible majesty of truth about them, to be almost as if they were spoken from the very mouth of. From Wordnik.com. [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference
Lastly, we may contemplate upon his supernatural, astonishing works: particularly in the resurrection, and reparation of the same numerical body, by a reunion of all the scattered parts, to be at length disposed of into an estate of eternal woe or bliss; as also the greatness and strangeness of the beatifick vision; how a created eye should be so fortified, as to bear all those glories that stream from the fountain of uncreated light, the meanest expression of which light is, that it is unexpressible. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.] Reference
This gave me an unexpressible pain. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer] Reference
Upon her arrival, the door was opened by a woman servant, she was just stepping out of the coach, when to her unexpressible concern and mortification, she was informed that Mr. and Mrs. Lane were gone to their country seat, an hundred miles distant from town, to spend the holidays, and that no-body was left in the house but herself, who lived, during their absence, upon board wages. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune] Reference
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