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Klopstock himself is rather remembered for what he was than what he is,—an immortality of unreadableness; and we much doubt if many Germans put the "Oberon" in their trunks when they start on a journey.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

He liked his clothes, his agnostic unreadableness, his social air.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

It has sometimes seemed to me that the unreadableness of the older authors might be made the foundation of a philosophic system.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

Bishop Berkeley's 'Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher,' is one of the few exceptions to the general dreariness and unreadableness of controversial writings in the dialogistic form.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

A still more formidable objection against a collection of proverbs, for the impatient reader, is their unreadableness.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac