inarticulate
Definition: Speechless; unable to express oneself clearly
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The Novel of Tomorrow and the Scope of Fiction - edited by Twelve American Novelists
...Unless the novelist wishes to rest under the imputation of romanticizing, let him write about commonplace people, dull inarticulate earthbound people, and let him courageously make them as dull and inarticulate and earthbound as the majority of mankind admittedly are ....
A Student in Arms - By Donald William Alers Hankey
...We grasped the fundamental fact that he is inarticulate, and that he has no real chance of being anything else ....
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...were fettered; and my voice still died away inarticulate; while you, I felt, withdrew farther and farther every moment . " "...
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...On seeing his daughter, his lips moved helplessly, but only gave out a hoarse, inarticulate sound ....
A Sheaf - By John Galsworthy
...Personally--being, as they say, a pessimist--I prefer to think that all is not yet lost; that we are still capable of expressing in the form of a faith the aspiration toward Perfection that does, that must, lie inarticulate within us; still capable of finding machinery, and men to work it, that shall drive this faith into the very heart of all classes ....
The Canadian Commonwealth - By C. Agnes Laut
...That our mountains are dumb and inarticulate, that our forests chant the litany of the pines untranslated to the winds of heaven, and that our cataracts thunder their diapasons inimitable to art--is no proof that though we are dumb and inarticulate, we are not lifted and transported and inspired by the wondrous beauties of the heritage God has given us ....
The Brimming Cup - By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
...There was a little stir in the company; " # small inarticulate sound from Elly ....
The Bent Twig - By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
...But she could produce only a few, broken, inarticulate words in a choking voice before she was obliged to stop short, lest she burst out in the flood of horror which Judith had forbidden ....
Treasure Island - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...Sir Walter Scott himself, with all his splendid romantic and tragical gifts, often, in Stevenson 's perfectly just phrase, ` fobs us off with languid and inarticulate twaddle . '...
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
...She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Here she burst into uncontrollable grief, and the remainder of her words were inarticulate ....
The Call of the Wild - By Jack London, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Philip R. Goodwin, Charles Livingston Bull, Charles Edward Hooper
...And then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, John Thornton sprang upon the man who wielded the club ....
The Age of Innocence - By Edith Wharton
...She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gaslight of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate ....
Sense and Sensibility - By Jane Austen
...The repose of the latter became more and more disturbed; and her sister, who watched with unremitting attention her continual change of posture, and heard the frequent but inarticulate sounds of complaint which passed her lips, was almost wishing to rouse her from so painful a slumber when Marianne, suddenly awakened by some accidental noise in the house, started hastily up, and, with feverish wildness, cried out--" Is mama coming ? " "...
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...iery, w ` ho immediately seized me, ere, indeed, I had sufficiently collected my ideas to ofter any resistance; in truth, my senses seemed to have wholly forsaken me, and when I strove to speak, a few inarticulate sounds alone escaped my lips ....
Ethan Frome - By Edith Wharton
..., That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods ... `` It was right there I found your locket, " he said, pushing his foot into a dense tuft of blueberry bushes ....
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...He saw her lips formed into a no, though the sound was inarticulate, but her face was like scarlet ....
Kim - By Rudyard Kipling
...The old man groaned, inarticulate with amazement; and the crowd shivered ....