inscrutible

• Carter Brooks, on learning about Switzerland, said it in a strange maner, looking at me with inscrutible eyes. —  Bab: a Sub-Deb
• We believe in God; His providence is mysterious and inscrutible; but his ways are just and righteous altogether. —  Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
• He began to understand that in some manner this inscrutible schemer had contrived to overreach him. —  Charlotte's Inheritance
• All of this emphasizes the suggestion of deception, sensationalizes transsexuality as some inscrutible and perverse sexual compulsion and attempts to erase and invalidate a transsexual's identity. —  Being Amber Rhea
• Prostrated by fatigue and exposure, distracted by the constant dread of outrage and death, I had well-nigh abandoned all hope of ever escaping from the Indians with my life, but, as the darkness of the night is just before the dawn, so my fears which had increased until I was in despair, God in his inscrutible way speedily calmed, for while I was brooding over and preparing for my impending fate, a sudden commotion attracted my attention and in less time than it takes to write it, I was free. —  Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear

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