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You are eternally listening, and what you hear shocks you; the common sounds of life, the roll of the carts and cabs in the street, the footsteps of the passers-by, are full of an indescribable mournfulness; music increases your misery into madness, and the joy of others is monstrous as laughter heard in hell.
The inmates, some of whom were only awakened by the shock, were seized with an indescribable terror. All the windows were smashed to atoms, the furniture and fixtures in the interior were rattled, and some lighter articles disturbed from their position.
Then, to Agatha's indescribable indignation, there came another sort of crackle a dry, grating, derisive chuckle from that flinty-hearted old man, her grandfather. "Good, monstrous good, 'pon my life!" said he. "You're laughing at me!" she cried, leaping up. "Well, my dear, I'm afraid I am." "Oh, how cruel men are!" "H'm! They're both men of spirit evidently." "Calder I can just understand.
The priest spoke with indescribable bitterness; so much so, indeed, that Claude was amazed. "The latest news," continued Père Michel, "is, that England is going to send an army to assist Austria. The queen, Maria Theresa, will now be able to turn the scales against France. This means war, and the declaration must follow soon. Well, poor old Fleury kept out of war with England till he died.
Simple in his tastes, unassuming in his manners, Frank, generous, kind-hearted, and honourable, His private life was beautiful, As his public course was brilliant. Subsequent to the melancholy tragedy of 1803, a period of indescribable depression was experienced in Ireland.
In this dream, whenever it came, he was sailing in a ship of a peculiar build, indescribable but always the same, and being borne on it with great speed towards a dark and undefined shore. He had always dreamed this before victory. He dreamed it before Antietam, before Murfreesborough, before Gettysburg, before Vicksburg.
Mrs Merton, also shutting her eyes, struck feebly with the knife. The others, having likewise shut their eyes, waited a few seconds in a state of indescribable horror, and then opened them to find that the Spartan lady had missed her mark, and planted her weapon in the ground! So feeble, however, had been the stroke that it had barely penetrated an inch of the soil.
She opened her eyes very wide and cocked her head on one side, looking at him with indescribable archness. "That is the disadvantage of our profession," said he. "It forces us sometimes to be ungallant." She took the prescription and gave him one last, luscious smile. "You will come and see me dance, dearie, won't you?" "I will indeed." He rang the bell for the next case.
They noticed a change to blankness and stillness in his face, and when he spoke, an indescribable alteration in the tone of his voice. "I found you in a room in the corridor," said D'Arbino. "What made you faint? Don't you remember? Was it the heat?" Fabio waited for a moment, painfully collecting his ideas. He looked at the valet, and Finello signed to the man to withdraw.
Naturally, Wedekind is the poet speaking his own lines, acting his own creations, and there is, for that reason, an intimate note in his interpretations, an indescribable sympathy, and an underscoring of his meanings that even a much superior actor might miss.
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