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Not explained. Of unknown cause or origin.

Pumpkin's original deposit with Bird Song was overdrawn and requests for further funds were excused away, purportedly awaiting some expected but unexplained bounty via the mail.

How or why it approves of some and not of others is left unexplained.

But this hypothesis leaves the elevation of the visceral mass and the exogastric coiling of the shell in the ancestral form unexplained.

The pure-bred riding camel is only found in perfection in inner Arabia; for some unexplained reason when taken out of their own country or north of the 30th degree they rapidly degenerate.

In 1656, and again in 1657, she visited France, on the second occasion ordering the assassination of her major-domo Monaldischi, a crime still unexplained.

Its flesh is much relished, and for some unexplained reason is called by its vendors mountain-whale (yama-kujira).

Fitzpatrick A, Sutton R. Tilting toward a Diagnosis in Recurrent unexplained Syncope.

Tarentum (whether or no founded by pre-Dorian Greeks - its founders bore the unexplained name of Partheniae) became a Laconian colony at some unknown date, whence a legend grew up connecting the Partheniae with Sparta, and 707 B.C. was assigned as its traditional date.

Though, for some unexplained reason, he abolished the mimes, so beloved of the populace, at the outset of his reign, he availed himself of the occasion of his first triumph to restore them again.

His other statements of saton = 56 or 50 sextaria remain unexplained, unless this be an error for bath = 56 or 50 Syr.

A statement made by the Canadian commissioners, who refused to sign the report, of an unexplained change of opinion on the part of Lord Alverstone, produced a widespread impression for a time that his decision in favour of American claims was diplomatic rather than judicial.

He was educated at the Jesuit school of Pezenas, and received priest's orders, but he was dismissed for unexplained reasons from the parish of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, to which he was attached, and thenceforward he devoted himself to society and literature.

Their power over serpents has been doubted, yet their performances remain unexplained; they, however, always extract the fangs of venomous serpents.

The conflict which thus arose explains what St Mark's succinct narrative had left unexplained - the fatal hostility of Jerusalem.

The first of these attitudes taken alone is dogmatism; the second, when similarly isolated, is scepticism; the third, when unexplained by its elements, is mysticism.

It has been suggested, but with very scant measure of probability, that the existence of elephants in Borneo, whose confinement to a single district is remarkable and unexplained, is due to importation; and the fact is on record that when Magellan's ships visited Brunei in 1522 tame elephants were in use at the court of the sultan of Brunei.

It is the idea of tension or tonicity as the essential attribute of body, in contradistinction to passive inert matter, which is distinctively Stoic. The Epicureans leave unexplained the primary constitution and first movements of their atoms or elemental solids; chance or declination may account for them.

Now, to the Stoics nothing passes unexplained; there is a reason (Xbyos) for everything in nature.

The second effect is readily attributed to the mutual repulsion of the electrified drops, but the action of feeble electricity in producing apparent coherence was long unexplained.

His surname was usually derived by later Greek writers from the name of his supposed birthplace, Gonni (Gonnus) in Thessaly; some take it to be a Macedonian word signifying an iron plate for protecting the knee; neither conjecture is a happy one, and in our ignorance of the Macedonian language it must remain unexplained.

The cause of the variation in the signature still remains unexplained, but ceases to have therefore any great historical importance.

This time the back part of the machine, in some way still unexplained, was caught by a portion of the launching car, which caused the rear sustaining surface to break, leaving the rear entirely without support, and it came down almost vertically into the water.

While still an undergraduate he happened to read of certain unexplained irregularities in the motion of the planet Uranus, and determined to investigate them as soon as possible, with a view to ascertaining whether they might not be due to the action of a remote undiscovered planet.

It is said that the foreign office had then in print a series of despatches which would have answered its accusers had they been presented when the debate began, as for some unexplained reason they were not.

The former, while accepting utility as the criterion of " material goodness," had adhered to Shaftesbury's view that dispositions, not results of action, were the proper object of moral approval; at the same time, while giving to benevolence the first place in his account of personal merit, he had shrunk from the paradox of treating it as the sole virtue, and had added a rather undefined and unexplained train of qualities, - veracity, fortitude, activity, industry, sagacity, - immediately approved in various degrees by the " moral sense " or the " sense of dignity."

His inquiries afford the assurance of a nearly exact conformity among its members to strict gravitational law, only the moon and Mercury showing some slight, but so far unexplained, anomalies of movement.

How Herodotus came to think that the bird was like an eagle is quite unexplained; perhaps this is merely a slip of memory.

The police was inundated with calls from people who saw the unexplained lights on Saturday night.

These effects correspond with an unexplained phenomenon reported in connection with UFOs.

Unexplained absences will be followed up by the school Learning Mentor and/or the Education Welfare Officer.

It is littered with basic presentational errors such as missing or incorrect bibliographic details, spelling errors and at least five unexplained acronyms.

From the bald assertion of her husband's guilt, Lois Jenkins makes a sudden leap to unexplained hints.

At first, these were slight, unexplained noises, sounds of labored breathing, and footsteps walking through the house.

Like so many " weird " or " unexplained " happenings SHC has been fairly comprehensively debunked.

Allowing for this the level of unexplained discrepancy appropriate for 2001-02 was estimated to be 2,600.

The Ouija Board - Occasionally we hear about unexplained happenings in the past.

Symptoms that may indicate the diagnosis include unexplained severe pain that increases rapidly over time associated with systemic toxicity including hypotension.

This was in addition to the percentage for unexplained miscarriages.

Colin Wilson's The Unexplained Psychic Powers makes the Element Encyclopedia seem positively restrained.

Raised bile acids have also been reported in 5% of unexplained stillbirths.

Fitzpatrick A, Sutton R. Tilting toward a Diagnosis in Recurrent unexplained syncope.

The system security administrator could also be watched to ensure that there are no unexplained variances in normal duties.

We present the history of a patient with an acute gastric volvulus and unexplained hypotension.

The impulse to migrate, that is to say, the calling forth of specific activities by climatal or other presentations, appears to be instin tive; whether the direction of migration is in like manner instinctive is a matter of uncertainty; and, if it be instinctive, the nature of the stimuli and the manner in which they are hereditarily linked with responsive acts is unexplained.

This condition is never observed by the universal historians, and so to explain the resultant forces they are obliged to admit, in addition to the insufficient components, another unexplained force affecting the resultant action.

Avoid long rambling sentences, jargon or unexplained acronyms.

Colin Wilson 's The Unexplained Psychic Powers makes the Element Encyclopedia seem positively restrained.

Colic in babies, which is characterized by unexplained crying for extended periods of time, may be associated with gastrointestinal problems.

Some mothers, due to pituitary disorders, hormonal problems or other unexplained causes will not produce enough milk right from the start.

Your doctor can rule out medical problems or medications that may contribute to unexplained anxiety.