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"For several days, Gerande," said the young apprentice, "something absolutely incomprehensible has been going on. All the watches which your father has made and sold for some years have suddenly stopped. Very many of them have been brought back to him. He has carefully taken them to pieces; the springs were in good condition, and the wheels well set.

Then it regarded her as "good material." It sent its angels, those voluntary servants of the state, the acquaintances who call themselves friends. These at first approved of her, always misunderstood her, and at length despised her. They misunderstood her, because a person truly inarticulate was incomprehensible to them. Her naïveté they mistook for insolence, her dreaminess for disrespect.

IV. All those who believe the immateriality of the soul, a specious and noble tenet, must confess, from their present experience, the incomprehensible union of mind and matter.

Pryor chuckled cordially; then in a mildly inquisitive tone he said: "Seems to be a fine, square young fellow, I expect?" "Yes, I think so." "Pretty name, `Cora'," said Pryor. "What's this little girl's name?" Mr. Madison indicated the child, who had stood with heroic patience throughout the incomprehensible dialogue. "Lottie, for her mother. She's a good little girl." "She is so!

His happiness was as incomprehensible to her, as his design on the blood of his child was dreadful, and she led the boy forth quickly. The doctor, however, went into the laboratory with wavering steps, and in the next half hour prepared more of the elixir into which he mixed some of his own blood. The effect was the same as if he had used the blood of his child.

His happiness was as incomprehensible to her, as his design on the blood of his child was dreadful, and she led the boy forth quickly. The doctor, however, went into the laboratory with wavering steps, and in the next half hour prepared more of the elixir into which he mixed some of his own blood. The effect was the same as if he had used the blood of his child.

How would it be possible to observe all that is merely external! The heart is overflowing with admiration, gratitude, and love the blindness of men seems perfectly incomprehensible and the soul is overwhelmed with sorrow at the thought of the ingratitude of the whole world, and of her own sins!

Pickwick, accosting Job, 'although his mode of expressing his opinion is somewhat homely, and occasionally incomprehensible. 'He is, sir, very right, said Mr. Trotter, 'and I will give way no longer. 'Very well, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Now, where is this boarding-school? 'It is a large, old, red brick house, just outside the town, Sir, replied Job Trotter. 'And when, said Mr.

Once more I was aware of that singular state of consciousness to which I have elsewhere alluded as possessing me in the presence of violent criminals; a vivid pleasure in the mere act of physical contest, perfectly incomprehensible to me in my normal state of mind.

'Why? asked Clarice in a tone of complete surprise, as though the idea was incomprehensible to her, and she repeated insistently, 'Why? 'Well, he said, inventing a reason, 'I think he would never stand in actual need of her. Clarice drew a sharp breath a sigh of longing, it seemed to her companion, as for something desirable beyond all blessings.