"Explainable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wanderings in and out, as has been said, Chicory came nearer to where his young master sat, with his back to the trunk of the great forest-tree, and more than once Jack wondered that the lion had not seen him; though this was easily explainable—he remained perfectly motionless, and the animal ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... is easily explainable by any one with sufficient imagination to put himself in the bird's place. It is the rule of a sitting bird to sit tight, not to be scared off by trifles, and to take great risks rather than expose ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... me with great gravity. "Mr. Worthington, I am sorry to have to admit it, but something strange, something not easily explainable, took place in this house last night. It has only just come to light, otherwise the doctors' conclusions might have been different. You know there is a detective in the house. The presents are valuable, and I thought best to have a man ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... plate LXV, 33 and 36], in which something divided or broken up is undoubtedly indicated." He adds that "perhaps also the terms lambat and lamat, used in Tzental-Zoztzil and in Maya for the day character, and which are hardly explainable from the well-known Maya, are derived from the Zapotec word lapa." Dr Brinton's explanation is ...
— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas |
