The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
O what an unexpressible love hath she for you now! and with what imbraces and kisses she entertains you, because you have furnish'd her shop so well! ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)
It was at such an hour, and in such a state of tranquillity I sat, when, to my unexpressible amazement, ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)
Hitherto, although many, both ministers, gentlemen and others, had endured unexpressible hardships and severities, yet few or none suffered to the death, save that noble peer, the Marquis of _Argyle_, who was condemned by the parliament 1661, and beheaded _May_ 27th; and the ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)
Do but behold, in the mean time, what an unexpressible Pleasure your dearly Beloved hath in the tricking up of her sweet Baby in the most neatest dresses. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)
For those who have not been submitted, as we have, for four years to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, or, in a word, the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first allied troops made their way through our village. ❋ Unknown (1919)
For those who have not been submitted, as we have for four years, to the intolerable and abhorred German yoke, it is difficult to realize how great were the relief, the joy, the well-being, in a word the unexpressible happiness we all felt when the first Allied troops made their way through our village, and this great event has been for us like the dawn of a resurrection. ❋ Unknown (1918)
He was of stature moderately tall; of a straight and equallyproportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexpressible addition of comeliness. ❋ Unknown (1909)
And, O the power of church-music! that harmony added to this hymn has raised the affections of my heart, and quickened my graces of zeal and gratitude; and I observe that I always return from paying this public duty of prayer and praise to God, with an unexpressible tranquillity of mind, and a willingness to leave the world. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, Forgive me, friend, brother, sister! ❋ William Ambrose Spicer (1908)
A fair cow -- An utterly obnoxious and otherwise unexpressible person, place, thing, or circumstance. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Not one tenth of the things that might have been said was actually spoken; the greater part was unexpressed, perhaps unexpressible. ❋ Herbert M��ller Hopkins (1890)
He was, however, by no means neglectful of his studies, for we are told by Lloyd in his _State Worthies_, 'that unwearied was his industry, unexpressible his capacity: He never saw the book of worth he read not; he never forgot what he read; he never lost the use of what he remembered: Everything he heard or saw was his own; and what was his own he knew how to use to the utmost.' ❋ William Younger Fletcher (1871)
A man needs not to take pains, or to use many arguments, to satisfy and content his own mind, after he hath done a good action, and to convince himself that he hath no cause to be troubled for it, for peace and pleasure do naturally spring from it: nay, not only so, but there is an unexpressible kind of pleasure and delight that flows from the testimony of a good conscience. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)
Blessed St. Augustine reports, (if that epistle be St. Augustine's) that when himself was writing to St. Hierome, to know his opinion of the measure and quality of the joy and glory of heaven, suddenly in his chamber there appeared 'ineffabile lumen', says he, an unspeakable, an unexpressible light, ... and out of that light issued this voice, 'Hieronymi anima sum', &c. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)
But it would be unexpressible, intolerable mortification to me, to have it said or suspected in the world of fashion, that I retreated from the ranks disabled instead of disgusted. ❋ Unknown (1801)
My Joy was unexpressible, both upon his Account and my own. ❋ Pliny (1723)
When John first brought out the bills, the surprise of all the family was unexpressible at the prodigious dimensions of them; they would have measured with the best bale of cloth in John's shop. ❋ John Arbuthnot (1701)
After the Tumult was over, when they came to that clause in their Devotions, _Thou hast made this day Glorious; _ the Devil to the unexpressible Terrour of that vast ❋ Cotton Mather (1695)
But, oh! how would my heart, at such times, put forth itself with unexpressible groanings. ❋ Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 (1666)
