Example Sentences

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It is neither young nor old, the Face: it has a vapoury indefinableness that leaves it a riddle;—its diaphaneity reveals no particular tint;—perhaps you may not even be quite sure whether it has a beard.

From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

For beautiful Henrietta was—beautiful with a beauty quite her own and all the more potent because of its very indefinableness.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy