unreadableness

My romantic mind painted him dark and mysterious, with ebony eyes that, on occasion, flicked over me with maddening unreadableness.

My Resolution Jack Canfield 2008

My romantic mind painted him dark and mysterious, with ebony eyes that, on occasion, flicked over me with maddening unreadableness.

My Resolution Jack Canfield 2008

He liked his clothes, his agnostic unreadableness, his social air.

The Titan 2004

There is a large class of men madly desirous to read cuneiform and runic inscriptions simply because of their unreadableness, adding to our compulsory stock of knowledge about the royal Smiths and Joneses of to-day much conjectural and conflicting information concerning their royal prototypes of an antiquity unknown, and, as we fondly hoped, unknowable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

It has sometimes seemed to me that the unreadableness of the older authors might be made the foundation of a philosophic system.

Youth and Egolatry P��o Baroja 1914

He liked his clothes, his agnostic unreadableness, his social air.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

The essential unmarriageableness of the modern man and the unreadableness of his books are two facts that work very well together.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

As he pursued his round the sense came upon him (as it does upon most of us in similar places) of the extreme unreadableness of a great portion of the collection.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

Klopstock himself is rather remembered for what he was than what he is, -- an immortality of unreadableness; and we much doubt if many Germans put the "Oberon" in their trunks when they start on a journey.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855