The author of the 'Vestiges of Creation' would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of generations, some bird had given birth to a woodpecker, and some plant to the misseltoe, and that these had been produced perfect as we now see them; but this assumption seems to me to be no explanation, for it leaves the case of the coadaptations of organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life, untouched and
unexplained.
"Is there any point you can think of that is still left
unexplained?"
Indeed, for some
unexplained reason, she was bubbling over with congested laughter, the reason for which mere embarrassment set one inquiring.
One day I received a telegram from my father of such urgency that in compliance with its
unexplained demand I left at once for home.
He told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the
unexplained trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor.
"You have, no doubt, described the sequence of events correctly, but there is one point which you have left
unexplained. What became of the hound when its master was in London?"
That, he seemed on the point of being at once released, when the tide in his favour met with some
unexplained check(not intelligible to the Doctor), which led to a few words of secret conference.
SOCRATES: Do you remember how, in the example of figure, we rejected any answer given in terms which were as yet
unexplained or unadmitted?
Peculiar markings, as yet
unexplained, were seen near the site of that outbreak during the next two oppositions.
She has failed to keep them apart; and her
unexplained misgivings have not been justified by events: Emily and Mr.
The theory I have formed from the incident is so absurd that I would rather matters remained as yet
unexplained."
Jekyll's "disappearance or
unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months," the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay and free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor's household.