She was in a prehensible situation. From LearnThat.org.
His feet were large and the toes were long, almost prehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test] Reference
He came from living and working in an equally tricky and prehensible world. From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
The role of symmetry in animate life is both crude and subtle, disquieting and incom - prehensible. From Wordnik.com. [SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY] Reference
Must your soul be torn to incom-prehensible bits or compressed into nothing, to leave no trace behind?. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
TO WALK SPANISH; to "walk" a boy out of any place by the waistband of his trousers, or by any lower part easily prehensible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
The peculiar prehensible power possessed by the hand of man is chiefly dependent upon the size and power of the thumb, which is more developed in him than it is in the highest apes. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
A lock to them was as incom-prehensible as Locke on the Human. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
In the attitude of the masked figure itself there was something prehensible and menacing. From Wordnik.com. [The White Mice] Reference
Condolences to any LEOs who had the misfortune of being assigned the detail of protecting such a prehensible piece of filth as Nancy Pelooser. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
We had only been a few hours in Devonshire, and that he should give up an investigation which he had begun so brilliantly was quite incom - prehensible to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]
They turned dim and nameless powers into definite and prehensible deities with names, and arranged them in groups so as to fall in with the life of the city as well as the farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
If you are disposed to doubt of Ihe doctrines we have advanced, under a pretext that you cannot comprehend them, then dis - card the other doctrines; they are not less incom - prehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague] Reference
For twenty minutes or more he continued his researches, measuring with the most exact care the distance between marks which were entirely invisible to me, and occasionally applying his tape to the walls in an equally incom - prehensible manner. From Wordnik.com. [A Study in Scarlet]
"No. No. irritating, frustrating, annoying, incom - prehensible and exasperating. From Wordnik.com. [Heir of Sea and Fire]
Not because it was necessary, but because he thought it might make his ability more com-prehensible to her. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
Its security depends wholly upon providing satisfactory bribes for the prehensible minorities that constitute the mob, or that have managed to deceive and inflame the mob. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
His hands were small and prehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
His clasp of the prehensible, retained. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
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