Use "intelligible" in a sentence

1. "Smash the fangs, watch out for the tentacles, don't let it grab the club," were the last intelligible words he heard

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2. That audio was intelligible to everyone on the crew now

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3. ‘Trust me,’ the man said in halting but intelligible

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4. Within the din of inhuman howls he heard a pair of intelligible words ringing out from somewhere high above

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5. Those very fortunate women were the first to reassemble the arcane traditions and customs of our people---the Lascorii, I mean---into an intelligible, cohesive compendium of training and instruction

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6. I spoke to them in Mongol, but only one of them could answer me, and his Mongol was barely intelligible

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7. They spoke completely mutually intelligible dialects of the same language but did tend to fight among themselves with little provocation

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8. However, thought must be manifested through the brain and to be intelligible to others it must be translated into sentences consecutively unfolding the ideas to be conveyed

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9. something that would be intelligible about the condition of Nirvana

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10. hitherto been written on this subject, and that little so guardedly expressed as not to be at all readily intelligible, and occult teachers are markedly reticent when questioned about it

11. Voice came at last, mumbling and half intelligible

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12. Sensing JY‘s nearness the dying man tried to speak but his swelling tongue prevented any intelligible sound

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13. “Tyrannosaurus Doc!” was the only intelligible thing that came out of the chaotic greetings

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14. intelligible sentence had ever been produced, but the

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15. or University of the S ummum Intelligible

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16. He had begun mumbling saying anything intelligible

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17. Their voices sounded stilted behind the masks, but were intelligible

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18. psychic and spiritual traditions, that the visions became somewhat intelligible

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19. The Koran contains sentences which are incomplete and not fully intelligible without the aid of the commentaries, foreign words, unfamiliar Arabic words, and words used with other than the normal meaning, adjectives and verbs inflected without observance of the concords of gender and number

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20. There was also the disturbing presence of the word 'science,' which suggested far too many intelligible subjects

21. ” As he went on he became less intelligible

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22. groan, but it was at least high enough to be intelligible to

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23. This is the answer to mysteries of manifestation (in our Life) of all possible phenomena, “miraculous” apparitions and many other things for which scientists cannot find any at least more or less intelligible explanation

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24. The jingle-jangle morning is your hearing becoming destroyed by undead auras interfering with your ability to hear anything humanly intelligible

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25. It is revealed by the fact that in most of the board meetings he attended during that unnecessary war he was too drunk to utter anything intelligible and was completely useless

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26. Whether he was drunk or mad or simply suffered from a slurring impediment I don’t know, but what came out his mouth made no sense to me at all, only bits and pieces intelligible, the fact that Olga was in the end room with the child being enough for me to act

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27. In symbolism, to speak of a spirit carrying water on its finger to cool another spirit’s tongue need not cause great stir if overlooked entirely—because of no apparent explanation at hand; and, indeed, it could receive a more intelligible explanation from a figurative point of view than from a literal

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28. It was calculated for children to understand, and never intended to be turned into a metaphysical problem which the greatest intellects of earth would be powerless to present in intelligible form

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29. She has made the nations 'drunk with the cup of her fornication,’ and has 'shed the blood of saints and martyrs’ till heaven itself cries, 'Lord, how long!’ The marvelous stability, through long ages, of governments devoted to the maintenance of superstition, receives its most intelligible explanation in this doctrine of the Prophets—that the Rulers of the earth are not men, but the hosts of darkness, and that Kings and Priests are but their tools

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30. Besides this, the synoptic gospels contain pretensions which are intelligible only on the theory that their writers believed the subject of their memoirs was the incarnate Son of God

31. The divine incarnation, the sacrificial death of Christ, His ascension, the free pardon of sinners, the world-wide aspect of redemption, the final issue in an endless life,—all these are parts of a system, incredible in fragments; and you must expound the whole at once to render any single portion thoroughly intelligible

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32. Paul wrote two letters to the Corinthians, recently converted from heathenism, who can imagine, except one who has a theory to obey, that these compositions were set forth in words which were employed in senses previously unknown to the readers at Corinth, Philippi, Athens, or Thessalonica? Granting that there would be some tincture of foreign idioms in the combination of their phrases, and admitting that there would be some new Hebraic phrases introduced from the usage of Greek-speaking Jews of Palestine or Alexandria, still it is evident that their ordinary expressions were, from the very tact that they were used by the apostles, judged by them to be intelligible Greek, so that none of the idioms were beyond the comprehension of an honest, religious, Greek-speaking man

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33. The whole verse will then present an intelligible statement

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34. They are afflicted at times with more serious doubts and difficulties than they care or dare to express; and so far from possessing intelligible conceptions of the moral character of God, which lead to hearty rejoicing, victorious faith, or triumphant song, the result produced is generally little more than passive submission to church authority, or the verbal ascription of praises to Heaven, as possessing attributes of 'goodness’ and 'justice,’—which are nevertheless felt to be enveloped in impenetrable mystery

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35. If men can be persuaded to cast aside the unscientific contention for natural immortality, with its inference of everlasting misery as 'the curse of the law,’ and to adopt the simplest sense of Scripture language on life and death, —the coherent evangelical system, as taught by the apostles and prophets, becomes again defensible, victorious, intelligible, and self-consistent

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36. A God of more intelligible justice and mercy will more powerfully 'draw all men unto Him

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37. Suppose we think a little more of those who can be reached by spiritual influences,—of those young souls who are seeking after God in solitary places,—of those perplexed but amenable spirits whom sorrow and fear and merciful invitations are drawing back to their Father: is there nothing to be said here of the possibly beneficial effect of some improvement in the representation of truth is Would not their sense of the evil of sin be deepened if they were permitted to feel that the system of God’s government is morally intelligible—if they could be assisted to see all things in the light of an intelligible justice and love, not in the red glare of that lake into which they have been taught to think so large a portion of the creation around them is going to burn forever? Sin will never seem so evil as when we can, with heart and soul and strength, like David, 'sing aloud’ with joy to God our Redeemer

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38. But, it is said, this will be suffering with a view to destruction; and this is inconsistent with any intelligible view of divine justice or goodness

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39. It may be answered at once that at least it is more consistent with intelligible ideas of divine justice and goodness than the orthodox doctrine that they are to be raised to suffer without amendment, and without mitigation, through eternity

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40. Stuart Mill (as delivered in his Essay on Nature) is spreading rapidly,—that on one side it is difficult to establish the proof of any morally intelligible God from physical nature alone; and, on the other, that so monstrous a Being as the God of the old

41. It is a consciousness of divine Love breathing around, a sense, amidst all mysteries, of intelligible justice and goodness, which alone can awaken the belief of a Divine Personality in atheistic souls; and this is precisely the effect of Christ's ministry among men, when He makes Himself known as THE LIFE OF THE WORLD, and the final Arbiter of its destinies

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42. give an intelligible account of the events preceding death, including the amounts of liquors

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43. As a promising way of setting them right, half of the half-dozen had become members of a fantastic sect of Convulsionists, and were even then considering within themselves whether they should foam, rage, roar, and turn cataleptic on the spot--thereby setting up a highly intelligible finger-post to the Future, for Monseigneur's guidance

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44. "If you are in an intelligible condition, I've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions

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45. "He is in 'an intelligible condition'! And I see you are an intelligent man too

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46. When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible:

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47. That, he seemed on the point of being at once released, when the tide in his favour met with some unexplained check (not intelligible to the Doctor), which led to a few words of secret conference

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48. intelligible now--that her father had attached to their betrothal, and was the one promise he had still exacted on the morning of their marriage

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49. There are, of course, points obvious enough to a Spanish seventeenth century audience which do not immediately strike a reader now-a-days, and Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelligible to a few

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50. ' Sometimes he would paint a cock in such a fashion, and so unlike, that he had to write alongside of it in Gothic letters, 'This is a cock; and so it will be with my history, which will require a commentary to make it intelligible

51. But that evening Jo fancied that Beth's eyes rested on the lively, dark face beside her with peculiar pleasure, and that she listened with intense interest to an account of some exciting cricket match, though the phrases, 'caught off a tice', 'stumped off his ground', and 'the leg hit for three', were as intelligible to her as Sanskrit

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52. She began to think that be must be in liquor;--the strangeness of such a visit, and of such manners, seemed no otherwise intelligible; and with this impression she immediately rose, saying,

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53. Neither is he capable of seeing that analogies, though specious as arguments, may often have no foundation in fact, or of distinguishing between what is intelligible or vividly present to the mind, and what is true

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54. were hardly intelligible, and the prince, perceiving what was the matter, took a

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55. The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment

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56. "I guessed he uttered those words, at least, though his voice was hardly intelligible

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57. May I suppose that you have this distinction of the visible and intelligible fixed in your mind?

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58. And of this kind I spoke as the intelligible, although in the search after it the soul is compelled to use hypotheses; not ascending to a first principle, because she is unable to rise above the region of hypothesis, but employing the objects of which the shadows below are resemblances in their turn as images, they having in relation to the shadows and reflections of them a greater distinctness, and therefore a higher value

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59. And when I speak of the other division of the intelligible, you will understand me to speak of that other sort of knowledge which reason herself attains by the power of dialectic, using the hypotheses not as first principles, but only as hypotheses--that is to say, as steps and points of departure into a world which is above hypotheses, in order that she may soar beyond them to the first principle of the whole; and clinging to this and then to that which depends on this, by successive steps she descends again without the aid of any sensible object, from ideas, through ideas, and in ideas she ends

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60. And thus arose the distinction of the visible and the intelligible

61. intelligible, and handed the spell list back to Gareth

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62. In such cases he made use of English, broken and imperfect, but sufficiently intelligible, and which he rendered so mild and musical, by his deep, guttural voice, that it never failed to cause both ladies to look up in admiration and astonishment

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63. But when Le Renard raised his voice in a long and intelligible whoop, it was answered by a spontaneous yell from the mouth of every Indian within hearing of the sound

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64. This time he fell on his knees, and, clasping his hands convulsively, uttered a prayer intelligible to God alone

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65. me ask ye, sir, have you been as intelligible to the girl?"

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66. It is impossible to describe the music of their language, while thus engaged in laughter and endearments, in such a way as to render it intelligible to those whose ears have never listened to its melody

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67. Though the figurative language of David was not very intelligible, the sincere and steady expression of his eye, and the glow of his honest countenance, were not easily mistaken

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68. One of their number now called aloud, in words that were far from appalling, though not more intelligible to those for whose ears they were intended, than their expressive yells

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69. Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud:

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70. " After which he continued, in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language:

71. The tribe consented to act with deliberation, and with one voice they committed the direction of the whole affair to the government of the chief who had suggested such wise and intelligible expedients

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72. Indeed, so very distinct and intelligible were the devices of the quadruped, that even the most experienced observer would have been at a loss to account for its actions, until the moment when the party entered the forest, when the whole would have been explained, by seeing the entire animal issue from the lodge, uncasing, by the act, the grave features of Chingachgook from his mask of fur

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73. When perfect silence was again restored, and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the patriarch arose, and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English:

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74. After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station

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75. The scout had stood, while making his observations, sheltered by a brake, and his companions still lay in the bed of the ravine, through which the smaller stream debouched; but on hearing his low, though intelligible, signal the whole party stole up the bank, like so many dark specters, and silently arranged themselves around him

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76. The strains rose just so loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as if borne away by a passing breath of wind

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77. how heavily, became intelligible to me, as I heard his hoarse voice, and sat looking

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78. My earnestness awoke a wonder in her that seemed as if it would have been touched with compassion, if she could have rendered me at all intelligible to her own mind

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79. These papers justified the subsequent verdict of the Coroner's jury that Hunter committed suicide in a fit of temporary insanity, for they were covered with a lot of meaningless scribbling, the words wrongly spelt and having no intelligible connection with each other

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80. He was a stern, gaunt man, with a harsh voice, and an aggressive manner, but he had the merit of knowing how to assimilate the ideas of other men, and to pass them on in a way which was intelligible and even interesting to the lay public, with a happy knack of being funny about the most unlikely objects, so that the precession of the Equinox or the formation of a vertebrate became a highly humorous process as treated by him

81. "If you are in an intelligible condition, I've thirty‐five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions

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82. At that distance, the English phrases on the board were no more intelligible than the Hebrew ones he’d forgotten to practice

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83. Cadwallader's eyes, diverted from the churchyard, saw a good deal of dumb show which was not so intelligible to her as she could have desired, and could not repress the question, "Who is Mr

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84. At a distance and among people who were strangers to Bulstrode, what satisfaction could there be to Raffles's tormenting, self-magnifying vein in telling old scandalous stories about a Middlemarch banker? And what harm if he did talk? The chief point now was to keep watch over him as long as there was any danger of that intelligible raving, that unaccountable impulse to tell, which seemed to have acted towards Caleb Garth; and Bulstrode felt much anxiety lest some such impulse should come over him at the sight of Lydgate

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85. To Pippin's surprise he found that much of the talk was intelligible

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86. In its more obvious form, descriptive analysis consists of marshalling the important facts relating to an issue and presenting them in a coherent, readily intelligible manner

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87. But in the common-stock field this risk may frequently be created by an undue advance in price—so much so, indeed, that in our opinion the great majority of common stocks of strong companies must be considered speculative during most of the time, simply because their price is too high to warrant safety of principal in any intelligible sense of the phrase

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88. The following hypothetical examples of three copper producers will make this point more intelligible and also lead to some conclusions on the subject of large output versus low operating costs

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89. After the Shanghai message, the dispatches from Tokyo ticked through, only half intelligible because the minister there spoke in a mad English-Japanese pidgin full of gozaimases and shimases that Thaniel had half-heard at the show village the day before, but whose meaning he couldn’t tell

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90. A well-encrypted message might be intelligible as battle plans to the intended recipient, but to anyone else it would just be a well-tossed word salad with a side order of alphabet soup

91. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady

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92. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: ‘This is the cause!’ In historical events (where the actions of men are the subject of observation) the first and most primitive approximation to present itself was the will of the gods and, after that, the will of those who stood in the most prominent position- the heroes of history

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