"Unintelligibly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... uncommon, the only instance I remember being that of a young woman, whose utterance was unintelligibly nasal, in consequence of an imperfect development of the palatine bones leaving a gap in ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry
... priest gibbered unintelligibly, but there was a guilty look on his face which spurred Shabako on. He shook the man and roared the question again. ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... of writing unintelligibly has been very much improved, and follow'd by several of the Moderns, who observing the general Inclination of Mankind to dive into a Secret, and the Reputation many have acquired by concealing their ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... janitor, who babbled and cringed, half unintelligibly, but stoutly denying that he had slept at his post on the seventh day before ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White
... whining resentfully, while the gander craned his neck and began saying something rapidly, excitedly, distinctly, but quite unintelligibly. ...
— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... the next day was only a haze to him now. They must have moved on, though he could remember nothing, save Hume's odd behavior—dull-eyed silence while stumbling on as a brainless servio-robot, incoherent speech wherein all the words came fast, running together unintelligibly. ...
— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton
... returned the prince's salutation, but so unintelligibly that he could not understand one word he said: prince Bahman perceiving that this difficulty proceeded from the dervish's whiskers hanging over his mouth, and unwilling to go any farther without the instructions he wanted, pulled out a pair of scissors he had about him, and having tied his horse ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... an unintelligibly muttered excuse, hurriedly followed, leaving her husband gazing from her retreating back to the excited face of the youngster, and muttering: "Bless my soul! Bless my soul!" between the gulps of his coffee, which for once ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... grunted unintelligibly, gathered up her paraphernalia, and prepared to depart. "When Minty's well," she said, "I'll come back and ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... immediately. He went to Ilka Leipke. Showed her the letter. Howling, he asked whether she had forgotten the night with him. She said: "yes." He moaned. He wept unintelligibly about soul and suicide. Ilka Leipke showed him out. His weakness was annoying to her; even as a child she ...
— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein
... the departure of an ocean liner was at its height. Hoarse voices were crying, "All for the shore!" The gangway was thronged with friends of passengers returning to land. The crowd on the pier waved flags and handkerchiefs and shouted unintelligibly. Members of the crew stood alertly by the gang-plank ready to draw it in as soon as the last seer-off ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse |
