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  • Inexpressibly dear as she was to him, he offered her his arm with the most reserved air, as he added, correctingly, “I will take you, at any rate, into the drive.”

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Inexpressibly dear to her deserted heart he was becoming, but for the future he should at least be hidden from her eyes.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • Inexpressibly relieved, I am sure, to hear that nobody is dead.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • Inexpressibly pathetic is the turn which she gives to the words of the song as she repeats the phrase of

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • Inexpressibly grieved, she reproached him for his inconstancy in the strongest terms, but, finding that her eloquence seemed to produce no impression, she hastened, all in tears, to the

    The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

  • Inexpressibly I longed to have the little thing in my possession; for with its present owner, despite his love for it, it seemed less happy than I could wish -- stowed away, heedless of its feelings, in his coat-pocket, or exposed on the narrow window-ledge, where it shivered, and mewed, and squeezed up to shelter, in an agony of terror lest it might fall.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • Inexpressibly moved by this, I hastened forward impulsively and, opening this door, stepped into the room beyond.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Inexpressibly moved at the manifestation before her of the warmth and depth of this human affection, she begs him to place his wife under her protection.

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Inexpressibly touched, Rhoda stopped and drew John's face down to hers, rubbing it softly with her velvet cheek.

    The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Honor�� Morrow 1910

  • Inexpressibly frightened, and believing, no doubt (with some reason, too), that brutes with - out meant brutality within, he hobbled away from all the houses, and with grey, wet fields to right of him and grey, wet fields to left of him -- with the rain half blinding him and the night coming in mist and darkness, held his way along the road that leads to Greenton.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

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