"Unimaginable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sloped. The beauty of this lagoon would need a Ruskin's pen to reproduce it in all its exquisite and manifold colouring. Submarine coral forests, of every hue, enriched with sea-flowers, anemones, and echinidae, of unimaginable brilliancy; shoals of the brightest fish flashing in and out like rainbow gleams; shells of gorgeous lustre, moving slowly along with their living inmates; fairy foliage of fantastic sea-weeds stirred into tremulous motion by the ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... permitted to keep his private existence to himself; in the pre-Boswellian [2] epoch, when the germ of the photographer lay concealed in the distant future, and the interviewer who pervades our age was an unforeseen, indeed unimaginable, birth ...
— Autobiography and Selected Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... my "Food of the Gods") I have tried to render my sense of our human possibility by monstrous images; I have written of those who will "stand on this earth as on a footstool and reach out their hands among the stars." But that is mere rhetoric at best, a straining image of unimaginable things. Things move to Power and Beauty; I say that much and I have said all that I ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
... up "Barabbas" as quickly as possible by "The Sorrows of Satan," thus carrying out the preconceived intention I had always had of depicting, first, the martyrdom which is always the world's guerdon to Absolute Good,—and secondly, the awful, unimaginable torture which must, by Divine Law, for ever be the lot ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... meeting in London next week. She really has been good to me beyond all words. Her patience and kindness have been unimaginable. ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson
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