Verb (used without object) : to seize on a rope. ,He must seize on a solution, however risky. ,The engine seized up from cold. From Dictionary.com.
This, they say, is what we live by — this unseizable force. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
It is thus that we live, they say, driven by an unseizable force. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
Such words are unseizable and unintelligible for their depth of meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The unseizable essence of the two books isn't pictures at all, the Tenniel illustrations notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. ['Alice': Half a Wonderland] Reference
The Fascist loves his neighbor, but the word neighbor does not stand for some vague and unseizable conception. From Wordnik.com. [Things One Should Not Forget « Whatever] Reference
A stranger, seeing them together, would have noticed an unseizable resemblance between these second cousins of the third generations of Forsytes; the same bone formation in face, though. From Wordnik.com. [In Chancery] Reference
And once more he felt the malaise of one who contemplates himself as seen by another — like a dog who chances on his reflection in a mirror, and is intrigued and anxious at the unseizable thing. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
There is a sort of moral climate in a household, an impalpable, unseizable, indefinable set of influences, which predispose the inmates to industry and self-control, or else relax fibre and slacken purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
That inexpressible, unseizable something they had meant!. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
And why did she still fight so hard against the sense of his dark, unseizable beauty?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
It had the glow of smiling austerity, the unseizable, paradoxical quality of herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Was it the vague, unseizable likeness between them which had pushed him over the edge?. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
That explained the look he had seen on the face of that unknown woman, the deep, unseizable, weird look. From Wordnik.com. [Tatterdemalion] Reference
(driven by this unseizable force) walked rapidly down Hermes Street and ran straight into the Williamses. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
Into his life, out of his life she had walked like that swaying and erect, remote, unseizable; ever eluding the contact of his soul!. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
A stranger, seeing them together, would have noticed an unseizable resemblance between these second cousins of the third generations of. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
She caught at the nerves like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
His father, with all his clumsiness, and his unscientific methods, had a certain quality, unseizable, Unanalysable, and Edwin had not that quality. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
His combination of soft manners and responsive kindliness, with a certain unseizable reserve and a familiar yet foreign chiselling of feature, reveal the. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
It was somewhat strange to hear his simple words, in which rang a certain unseizable rhythm and profound seriousness, which was rather unbecoming to the youth of the man. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Vasilyevich's Story] Reference
Throughout the War they had corresponded fitfully; but her letters, though affectionate and sisterly, lacked an unseizable something that affected the tone of his response. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
To be the light which leads, it is her business to don the misty vesture of an idea, that she may dwell as an idea in men's minds, very dim, very powerful, but abstruse, unseizable. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
And the responses, low-muttered, in voices through which rose the same tone, the same unseizable family ring, sounded weird, as though murmured in hurried duplication by a single person. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
And once more he felt the malaise of one who contemplates himself as seen by another -- like a dog who chances on his refection in a mirror and is intrigued and anxious at the unseizable thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Love-song of birds, laughter of men and women, the passionate blue above, the sun-warmed cobblestones underfoot -- in these also there is magic, unseizable, irresistible as the happiness of a child. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Desmond, V.C.] Reference
Under these conditions of equilibrium, the operator's short, clumsy legs are obviously not enough; a special accessory apparatus is needed to defy the danger of slipping and to seize the unseizable. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
A moment she was lost in the pursuit of an unseizable clue -- the explanation of this monstrous last perversity of fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
A springtime sea, and coming at moments to stir my soul with an enchanted, caressing, unseizable, mysterious, confused image. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
unseizable, for ever unseizable!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
Women are equally unseizable and unintelligible. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The unseizable sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
A shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
He was tireless, ubiquitous, unseizable. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02] Reference
“The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion'] Reference
And it's the East that gives you -- inside and out -- a quality, a bloom -- unseizable -- like moonlight ---- ". From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
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