But the scientific workers are progressing, not so much by their own will as by sheer force of circumstances, towards the far line which divides things interpretable from things uninterpretable.
"Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold"
Mabel Collins
So little true is it that "recognized elementary substances" are supposed to be absolutely elementary, that there has been much speculation among chemists respecting the process of compounding and recompounding by which they have been formed out of some ultimate substance-some chemists having supposed the atom of hydrogen to be the unit of composition, but others having contended that the atomic weights of the so-called elements are not thus interpretable.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
The girl's answer, interpretable to Sundown only by its intonation, was music to him.
"Sundown Slim"
Henry Hubert Knibbs