Yet one was as incomprehensibleto him as the other.
It is quite incomprehensible why he should act so, and no hint is given that the personality of the proprietor himself might solve this riddle for us.
He seems to us still incomprehensible and foolish; we have no idea of how his special folly is to acquire enough human appeal to compel our interest.
It remained incomprehensible to him why the women had chosen these men, and still more perplexing why the choice of the men had fallen upon these women.
She sometimes wondered if she had become as incomprehensible to him; and it was to find a moment's refuge from the dogging misery of such conjectures that she had now turned in at the Museum.
He was the key to the meaning of life, the justification of what must have seemed as incomprehensible as it was odious, had it not all-sufficingly ended in himself.
Why the fact that Sophie Carey had taken back her errant husband should have affected Clancy's attitude toward life and the part she must play in it is one of the incomprehensible things of that strange thing which we call "character.
And she waved a fat hand toward the dining-room, where a few men and women were gayly chattering incomprehensible badinage to each other between mouthfuls.
She carried on an incomprehensibleconversation for a minute and then motioned to me with her head.
November 5: Moved by some incomprehensible morbidity I had a stainless steel chest, complete with floats, made before embarkation in order to place the manuscript and diary in it should the impossible happen.
No, I suppose not; yet it hurts my liver to offer the old boy incomprehensible reasons or verbiage like 'compulsion neurosis' when all he wants is to protect me from my own impulses as he protected me from the army.
I had somehow, perhaps from the movies, expected to see an editor's desk piled with copypaper while he himself used halfadozen telephones at once, simultaneously making incomprehensible gestures at countless underlings.
Suddenly he turned, and uttering certain words in the dialect of the underways, words incomprehensible to Elizabeth, he made for the dogs.
But with incomprehensible rudeness, Semyon Ivanovitch persisted in lying in bed in silence, and obstinately pulling the quilt higher and higher over his head.
The children and the coppers, the coppers and the children, were mingled together in an utterly incomprehensible muddle, from which every one withdrew baffled, after vain efforts to understand.
A sensation is not an effect which one substance impresses upon another because God pleased that it should, or because of an incomprehensible incident in the original constitution of things.
Every one present said something more or less incomprehensible by way of greeting.
The divine purpose as shown forth in the Transfiguration may be as incomprehensible to the human mind as is a full conception of the attendant splendor from verbal description; some features of the results achieved are apparent, however.
To me," said Henry, "all this is as incomprehensible as anything can possibly be.
The fire had begun at the Circus Maximus, in the part which touches the Palatine and the Cælian Hill, but extended with incomprehensible rapidity and seized the whole centre of the city.
Though he had seen that they forgave him, he wished to bear away his head at the earliest from among these incomprehensible people, whose kindness terrified him almost as much as their cruelty would have terrified.
Petronius answered that he had no thought of denying, for he knew that many incomprehensible things were done, which trustworthy people affirmed.
He heard her softly murmuring under her breath, with an absent look on her face, accompanied by a still more incomprehensible smile.
The subject is one that is positively incomprehensible and unexplainable to the average mind.
Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that Mohammed possessed the key to this seeming riddle; but how could it be possible to speak in a language which was totally incomprehensible to them of this knowledge--the language of cosmic consciousness?
Yet that Fu-Manchu had, in some incomprehensible manner and by some mysterious agency, produced those abnormal flames, I cannot doubt.
But indeed let me confess that hers was a nature incomprehensible to me in some respects.
It became more and more incomprehensible how anyone could have entered and quitted Redmoat during the night.
These words were the moreincomprehensible as she did not appear to know even which year of the public life of Jesus she was then contemplating in spirit.
It is, therefore, almost incomprehensible that no precautions were taken, and no investigations made, before the prince was finally committed.
Dryden dealt in the same incomprehensible way with Milton as with Shakspeare.
He thirsted for one thing; to get out at last on to the path, whatever it might be, if only not to wander longer in this incomprehensible half-darkness.
At times it struck him as incomprehensible that a man--a man!
The detective pulled himself together and began to piece out by his well-known habit of induction some solution to this incomprehensible mystery.
In a flash she understood that Fantômas himself must have been the mainspring of the incomprehensible events enveloping the King's visit to Paris.
This phase of mind was, at her age, quite incomprehensible to her.
There was the silver calm of the full moon in her face, and she had for him the steadfastness, the incomprehensible eloquence, of the stars.
An incomprehensible dignity waved him back, and while he dallied with his wrath, the man turned his back on him and marched unconcernedly for the gate.
It is something incomprehensible to us, for it pertains to the divine intelligence.
Above all, they knew of his incomprehensible power of killing at a distance, viewlessly.
But Gray Lynx, hampered by trap and chain, and weakened alike by terror of the unknown and horror at the incomprehensible fury of his mate, was overmatched from the first.
