With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no
coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.
"Anne, I'll shake you if you don't grow
coherent. Redmond would be ashamed of you.
"The curse of God and all his saints upon thee, thou accursed Sancho!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "when will the day come- as I have often said to thee- when I shall hear thee make one single
coherent, rational remark without proverbs?
She went on, talking somewhat at random, now of the recent past, then of their first meeting and their marriage; but presently I began to form a fairly
coherent picture of their lives; and it seemed to me that my surmises had not been incorrect.
"It is a girl, is it not?" I asked, thus neatly depriving her of
coherent speech as I pushed her to the door.
It was with considerable difficulty that the ape-man quieted the fellow's fears sufficiently to obtain a
coherent statement from him as to the cause of his uncalled-for terror.
In an instant all was confusion and turmoil, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the King finally obtained a
coherent statement from his queen.
Taking it all in all, a fairly
coherent and interesting story I am sure you will agree.
After reading one or two of the more
coherent passages Henry recoiled from the ever-darkening horror of the story.
* Out of the ethical incoherency and inconsistency of capitalism, the oligarchs emerged with a new ethics,
coherent and definite, sharp and severe as steel, the most absurd and unscientific and at the same time the most potent ever possessed by any tyrant class.
The honest locksmith alone addressed a few words of
coherent and sensible advice to both parties, urging John Willet to remember that Joe was nearly arrived at man's estate, and should not be ruled with too tight a hand, and exhorting Joe himself to bear with his father's caprices, and rather endeavour to turn them aside by temperate remonstrance than by ill-timed rebellion.
"By this time, my dearest sister, you have received my hurried letter; I wish this may be more intelligible, but though not confined for time, my head is so bewildered that I cannot answer for being
coherent. Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed.