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Leslie had, with all his inapprehensiveness of things, an extraordinary amount of discernment of people; he could discern feelings that had no existence.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

This inapprehensiveness was as a blank wall; there was no surmounting it.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

For, conscious of this magic, she would lose it; her very inapprehensiveness it is which "brings it off."

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

There were times when the artist in Mrs. Venables sank a little in the helper; but here she ran up against a very blank inapprehensiveness.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Their attitude towards such tolerance was the measure of their inapprehensiveness.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame