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He gave vent to his agony, as he lay prostrate on his pallet, in wails of anguish and vituperative mutterings; uttered in the unintelligibleness of his own language.

From Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter by Munro, Colin

The obscurity or unintelligibleness," he says, "of one part of a prophecy does not in any degree invalidate the proof of foresight, arising from the appearing completion of those other parts which are understood.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

His adjectives always embarrassed her: their unintelligibleness savored of impropriety.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

For the unintelligibleness; give this whole song to any taught singer, and let her sing it to any company that have never heard it; you shall find they will not understand three words in ten.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Now this fine subtilty is a consequence of their putting bodies into a body, and so likewise is the unintelligibleness of the manner how one is contained in the other.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch