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But this peaceful outlook has brought with it a mouthful of unanswerably hard questions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as unanswerably the Earl Stanhope replied that Britain's tariff policy, adopted in 1931, reduced the Kingdom's adverse merchandise trade balance �120,000,000 last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I trust we are wiser," he would observe, so unanswerably that I passed with him up the Rhine quite, as I may express it, on the ground floor.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

To say nothing of the regard she might be supposed to have for his wishes, he knew that he had spoken unanswerably.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

Even my counsel, Hon. Henry R. Selden, who has argued my cause so ably, so earnestly, so unanswerably before your honor, is my political sovereign.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted