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Updated: July 18, 2025
There was also a ticket for his passage to America, by the screw steamer Andes, which sailed on Wednesday last. The clerk found him to the last degree incommunicative; and nothing could be discovered from him but what the papers disclosed. There were about a dozen utterly unintelligible notes among the papers, written by himself since his derangement.
Its waters are muddy, indicating the passage through a clayey district. I got some indefinite information about this river, from an Indian who happened to meet me just below its mouth, but I could not readily make him understand me, and his replies were a compound of Chinook, Tagish, and signs, and therefore largely unintelligible.
Thus it avoids a mysterious, unintelligible phraseology, and makes its progress in plain language, that is, with a clear and always visible chain of ideas. Certainly this cannot always be completely attained, but it must always be the aim in critical expositions.
Gaspare began to look fierce. "I think of buying a donkey," added Salvatore, carelessly, with his small, shrewd eyes fixed upon Maurice's face. Gaspare muttered something unintelligible. "How much do they cost?" said Maurice. "For a hundred lire you can get a very good donkey. It would be useful to Maddalena.
The number of trams and 'buses of different colours bewildered him, as he stood opposite to the White Horse, and watched them go by: and the accents of the conductors, when they called out their destinations, were unintelligible to him. He heard a man shouting "Beng, Beng, Beng, Beng, Beng, BENGK!" in a voice that sounded like a quick-firing gun, but the noise had no meaning for him.
As we got out into the living room we heard slow, dragging footsteps on the porch outside. We stopped again, shrinking back against the wall. "They they it's " Mercer's whispered words died away. We were both terrified beyond the power of reasoning. The dragging footsteps came closer a sound that had in it nothing of human tread. Then we heard soft voices words that were unintelligible.
After some broken sentences, the record of which is unintelligible, it goes on: "But it will interest only linguists, and delay me too long, to give the details of the series of intent parleys of which these were the beginning, and, indeed, I very much doubt if I could give in anything like the proper order all the twistings and turnings that we made in our pursuit of mutual comprehension.
Thus encouraged, Isidore toyed with a diamond stud, not much larger than a butter-plate, which glittered in the new shirtwaist of his new mamma, and uttered a perfectly unintelligible string of sounds. "See how well he knows it," said the parent proudly. "He says his name is Ignatius Aloysius Diamantstein. Think of him knowing it already and him not christened until next Sunday!
In one way or another money had been dragged from him for purposes which had been to his mind unintelligible; and when, about the middle of his first session, he had, with much grumbling, settled all demands, he had questioned with himself whether his whistle was worth its cost.
Nicholas, who had nearly slept off the effects of the wine, answered with an unintelligible sort of growling. "Brother Nicholas, I say, brother Nicholas, will you get up, or lie here all night?" "They shall be cleaned and ready by to-morrow morning," replied Nicholas, dreaming. "Humph! that's more than you will be, apparently, I say, brother Nicholas."
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