| 1. | With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 3. | This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 4. | He is such an inscrutable fellow that I never quite know what to make of him. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 6. | He tasks me he heaps me I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | She stood looking at us without a stir and like the wilderness itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 8. | For an hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 9. | Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |