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She stood looking at him stupidly for a minute or two, and then, to his great annoyance and discomfiture, flung her arms round his neck, sobbing out inarticulate words of entreaty and remonstrance. She didn't think to vex him, she didn't think it was any harm. He shook her off roughly and impatiently. Sally had evidently no sense of decency or even decorum.
The sound, which filled the room, with its hurry of short syllables, its sudden pauses, and its sudden attacks, might be compared to some animal hubbub, frantic and inarticulate. "D'you think that's all about my paper?" Rodney inquired, after a moment's attention, with a distinct brightening of expression. "Of course it is," said Mary. "It was a very suggestive paper."
There was no eloquence of leave-taking, no professions of undying love, for these two hearts were inarticulate and dizzily clinging to a wilderness code of self-repression and they had reached a point where speech would have swept them both away to a break-down.
"Then," continued Hal, "that splendid-looking chap on father's right was his guide and personal cook the one in the blanket coat and sash. He was part French but mostly Indian, I fancy Why, what's the matter, Larocque?" for Shag had suddenly made some inarticulate exclamation, and had carried the photograph nearer the light. "That is my father," he said quietly.
Don't you understand, man, that if we can't speak our own language then our souls are silent, dumb, inarticulate?... don't you see what I mean?... and all the time we're using English, we're like people who read translations. I don't care whether it is commercially valuable or not. That's not the point.
All these various phrases were rushing in among each other, and tossed across the eddies of smoke in the conflicting tongues loosened in the tabagie and made eloquent, though slightly inarticulate, by pipe-stems; while a tall, fair man, with the limbs of a Hercules, the chest of a prize-fighter, and the face of a Raphael Angel, known in the Household as Seraph, was in the full blood of a story of whist played under difficulties in the Doncaster express.
Ishmael stood by her silently; like most men, he was inarticulate at the great moments, and Blanche sobbed on. She who for so many years had made herself believe what she wished, had gagged and blindfolded her own soul till truth showed its face to her in vain, was now stripped of all bandages and having facts passed relentlessly before her.
Because of those gray hours of dawn and shame and self-knowledge, love did not end in David, nor did he cease to be rational and inarticulate; there had to be weeks of silent, vehement refusal to accept the situation: something must be done! Elizabeth must get a divorce "somehow"! It would take time, a long time, perhaps; but she must get it, and then they would marry.
She had fallen on her knees before a low easy-chair her face buried in her hands, her slender frame shaken by passionate sobs. "My child!" she exclaimed, in almost inarticulate murmurs; "my beloved, my idol! it is so bitter to be absent from you! so bitter! so bitter!" Early on the morning after her arrival in London, Honoria Eversleigh, otherwise Mrs.
Soon his huge form heaved with an inarticulate discontent, and as the speaker sat down amid perfunctory applause Vogelstein snorted twice into the air. "It is rather absurd, as you say," I ventured. "It's sickening," wheezed Vogelstein. "Why can't he sell his tapestries without all that talk?"
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