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Updated: June 29, 2025
Jerry, who heard, registered, and recognized many words that were as truly tools of thought to him as they were to humans, but who, by inarticulateness of birth and breed, could not utter these many words, nevertheless in his mental processes, used images just as articulate men use words in their own mental processes.
After leaving school at eighteen, he began his long series of journeys, his series of passions for women and for horses, passions dull and dumb, but violent, yet never such as to break through the spell of inarticulateness which seemed to freeze his nature. Nothing more curious can be fancied than his journeys.
He had the place to himself at that closing hour, and the librarian was able to give an undivided attention to his tentative request for letters collections of letters. The librarian suggested Walpole. "I meant women women's letters." The librarian proffered Hannah More and Miss Martineau. Glennard cursed his own inarticulateness. "I mean letters to to some one person a man; their husband or "
His misfortune was the difficulty with which he uttered himself; even when he got over his nervousness, words came to him only in a rough-and-tumble fashion; he sputtered and fumed and beat his forehead for phrases, then ended with a hearty laugh at his own inarticulateness, Something like this was his talk in the library of nights: 'There's a man called Rapley, an old-clothes dealer fellow I can't get hold of.
But among all the letters, never any letter from Elizabeth to David. In those first days he seemed to live only when the mail arrived; but his passion of expectation was speechless. Indeed his inarticulateness was a bad factor when it came to recovery from the blow that had been dealt him.
And so we northern people, with our passionate inarticulateness, love to find ourselves expressed in the old pages. I find in the Gospels one of the few complaints of Christ. "Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?" All one has ever felt is said for one in a phrase, all that one finds most isolating in the world is put into one sentence.
Already she was beginning to discover that beyond his expressive eyes he had really very little of importance to express, that his prolonged silences covered poverty of ideas rather than abundance of feeling, that his limited vocabulary was due less to reticence than to the simple inarticulateness of the primitive mind.
"Ye-ow-ow!" hooted Peter, making a megaphone with his hands and Dean joined in with a call that, though equally significant and symbolic, derived its resonance from its very inarticulateness. "Yo-ho! Yea! Yoho! Yo-buba!"
"Oh, if you make me love you any more, father, I'll be torn in bits," she cried, and sobbed, and could not be comforted. It was her only break from inarticulateness it surprised herself and her father almost as though she had said something indecent. When he knew, quite definitely, that he was dying and need not conserve his strength, some of the old tyranny came back to Andrew Lashcairn.
Already his inarticulateness was like an encumbering veil between them a veil in which she struggled as helplessly as a moth in a net. And only a month ago she had believed that the very immensity of his nature rendered him dumb. "Then you had better hurry, dear. Dinner is at eight, and you have only a minute." "You go down and tell them not to wait.
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