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... way, against weakness of situation or of direct and applied faculty, were in themselves really a revel of spirit and thought. It had indeed again an effect of almost pathetic incoherence that our brave quest of "the languages," suffering so prompt and for the time at least so accepted and now so inscrutably irrecoverable a check, should have contented itself with settling us by that Christmas in a house, more propitious to our development, in St. John's Wood, where we enjoyed a considerable garden and wistful view, though by that windowed privilege alone, of a large green ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

... considered him inscrutably, he, the final arbiter of fates. "You feel bad—yes? Veil, you can ...

— The Second Class Passenger • Perceval Gibbon

... closing the door softly behind him. With a nod he threw himself into a chair, helped himself to a pipeful of my tobacco, and looked inscrutably at me through ...

— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

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