| 单词 | supportable |
| 例句 | One of the foundation’s lawyers, Michael Ward Stout, said, “We believe that the allegations are not supportable, and we will address them going forward.” Collectors of Keith Haring Works File Lawsuit 2014-02-21T23:37:13Z The exclusion is not “supportable by the current state of medical science,” according to the decision. HHS may be poised to end longstanding Medicare ban on gender-confirmation surgeries for trans people 2014-05-08T15:53:00Z But Chase says they can get him a liver transplant first and then treat with the antibiotics—just the sort of highly irresponsible, barely supportable treatment House likes. House Watch: Score One for the Team 2011-11-08T13:43:47Z The very premise of Big Science may not be sustainable nor supportable, regardless of scientific merit. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The final ruling codifies the facts: she had been nearly killed and she had good reason — that is, legally supportable reason — to be in fear for her life. Gurbaksh Chahal has lost his job. His girlfriend has lost more 2014-05-06T22:57:00Z When the two Rob Lowes appear together on screen at the end of each spot, the real one says the line that the NAD decided was not supportable. DirecTV ends ad campaign with Rob Lowe 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z If his gnomic remark is not supportable in any real biographical sense, there is little doubt Kahlo continues to exist as a potent figure of myth. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In a subsequent press conference, a U.S. admiral revealed that more than 80% of those captured "terrorists" were released within weeks because there wasn't supportable evidence that they were insurgents. The truth about CIA-backed Afghanistan night raids that killed countless civilians 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The B-21 will also be more supportable and maintainable than its predecessor, a major point of emphasis for development given the high maintenance costs for the B-2. Northrop Grumman to debut new B-21 bomber as aerospace employment rebounds 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The firm, which has long led the conscious investing movement, said this year’s proposals were “less supportable” and cited new regulatory guidance that opened the door to a broader range of policy-related proposals. Big Tech and the Fed 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “We would be concerned about any supportable allegation of wrongdoing, whatever the source,” Powell wrote. China targeted the Fed for more than a decade, Senate report finds 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z "We would be concerned about any supportable allegation of wrongdoing, whatever the source," Powell wrote. Fed not adequately prepared to thwart Chinese information gathering: report 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration won’t be moving forward with a proposal to let electric vehicle owners pick their own low-speed sounds, citing a lack of “supportable data.” EV owners won’t be able to pick their own low-speed noise after NHTSA scraps proposal 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z "There's some potential a voter who may find him supportable may have already contributed some money on the basis of the information they had at that point," Hedtler-Gaudette said. Herschel Walker left out millions in his financial report 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z We have a belief that both are necessary and both in the right form are very supportable. A Q&A with Lenfest Institute’s Jim Friedlich on securing the future of local news 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z I think using an unsubstantiated religious excuse is not supportable. Religious exemptions: Love thy neighbor 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z In lifting the restraining order, the judge ruled that there was “no supportable evidence” that Bauer would be likely to “harm or even have contact” with the accuser. Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer's leave extended through end of season 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The claim made in the Twitter post “is not supportable by these data,” said Dr. David J. Cennimo, an infectious disease expert at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z An AT&T spokesman said the company only takes tax positions that are “legally supportable.” As IRS audits waned, big businesses racked up unapproved tax breaks 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The board said in a commentary that the changes “… are proposed without a fully supportable scientific basis, while potentially introducing 8 substantial new risks to human and environmental health.” Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “More targeted measures that protect the most vulnerable from Covid, whilst not adversely impacting those not at risk, are more supportable,” they added. U.K.’s Boris Johnson to Order Pubs and Restaurants to Close Early 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z When Jones asked a woman "why not support" Biden due to his ties to Scranton, she answered that the former vice president's policies weren't "supportable." Pennsylvania voters tell Lawrence Jones why they oppose Biden: 'He had 40 years to make it right here' 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z “Given the high amount of uncertainty in the economy, it turns out you can come up with multiple scenarios and they are all reasonable and supportable,” Kleinhanzl said. Crisis-hit Wall Street checks in to Zandi's 'impairment studio' 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z “These changes are proposed without a fully supportable scientific basis, while potentially introducing substantial new risks to human and environmental health.” EPA science advisers slammed the agency for ignoring science. Here is what they said 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z If supportable, the allegation would be astounding — yet every statement offered by the project to validate it is false. Letter to the Editor: Historians Critique The 1619 Project, and We Respond 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z "It's simply not morally supportable to require young adults to start their lives in so much debt." Has a US university cracked student debt? 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z When a case is made for license approval based on concrete and supportable facts, decisions on those licenses are made. How U.S. chipmakers pressed Trump to ease China's Huawei ban 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The new accounting rule says banks must use “reasonable and supportable” forecasts, but there is a lot of flexibility on what scenarios they adopt and the choice can be material. Crisis-hit Wall Street checks in to Zandi's 'impairment studio' 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Gov. Jay Inslee is clearly making the salmon culvert funding increase, an additional sum beyond what the Legislature felt was a supportable amount, because it will look good on his presidential résumé. Culvert funding is a bad idea 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z He says the stewards’ penalty for failing to control the horse in the Kentucky Derby is “unduly harsh and not supportable by facts and law.” Maximum Security jockey Luis Saez appeals suspension 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be great to hear what Sanders has to say about Kelly’s view that the President’s emergency declaration was not legally supportable? The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Wansink previously said he believes all his research findings are supportable. Study that took aim at ‘Joy of Cooking’ is retracted 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z McEvoy, the county spokesman, said the county provided Peabody with information it believed was “legally supportable.” Chesapeake Bay land deal undergoes scrutiny in race for county executive 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z They found that the projected greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture would not be supportable unless global meat consumption was reduced. Transforming the global food system 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z “These claims are not only absurd on their face; they are not supportable by fact,” Nichols wrote. California urges Trump administration to abandon fuel rule plan 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The school has declined to share the full report, but did release a summary that stated OSU had "reached reasoned and supportable conclusions" about Croce's work. Why The Ohio State University decided to go public about misconduct 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z He acknowledged Turkey’s “legitimate security concerns about elements of the SDF forces amassed on their southern border … but I think they are smaller concerns than the grander strategic need for a stable and supportable Syria.” Turkey disputes White House readout of Trump-Erdogan call 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The sense that couples grow apart in certain ways that break down suddenly and give way to an affair is not, in general, supportable. When a Partner Cheats 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “All the beautiful numbers are really just guesses. They are not based on anything scientifically supportable.” State could spend $1B on Everglades reservoir. Will it work? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The agency also said Monday that the payment on the debt appears to be supportable, based on the team’s operating assumptions and its anticipated attendance increase. Auditor reviews PawSox finances for proposed stadium deal 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, both Republicans, appeared most skeptical that the bills were constitutionally supportable. Bills to Protect Mueller Are Bipartisan, but the Path Forward Is Uncertain 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z California, which has the largest share of immigrants living in the country illegally, can apply the brakes, but it needs to find a way that is fair and supportable by state residents. California Editorial Roundup 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “But, like, the Nazi stuff? Maybe I’m the deranged one, but I don’t see that as supportable at all.” Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z For one thing, celebrity is a subjective quality, and the claim that more celebrities died in any given year is not easily supportable with objective data. 2016 Was a Bad Year for Celebrity Deaths, by These Measures 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “You have to make it scientifically supportable and forensically sound,” Flegel said. Federal drug testing rules race to catch up to illegal prescription drugs 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z This approach is cost effective, timely and supportable by a wide array of software developers and programmers. A Manhattan Project for the 21st Century 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “The state’s decision is not legally supportable, and we intend to challenge this decision,” Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. L.A. Unified's school board wants to use state funds for special education students 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Termination was probably supportable in both cases, but the VA instead merely sought to reclassify the employees’ titles, to reflect their scaled-back responsibilities and to reduce their pay accordingly. The ‘Corrosive Culture’ at Veterans Affairs 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z And the promised reduction in fire risk from some thinning operations has not been scientifically supportable. Montana Editorial Roundup 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Credible facts matter, supportable evidence matters … the truth matters.” Prosecutor clears immigration officer who shot Detroit man in home raid 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Lumping Internet access into the telephone category, as the FCC rules do, is neither logical nor supportable. Destroying the Dynamic Internet 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z And based on what we're seeing in terms of the economics, it looks quite supportable. Tesla sounds ready to pull the plug on promised battery-swap technology 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z If we are to create “news” content, we must work especially hard to insure that it’s both transparent and founded in supportable data. State-Run Media...In Indiana 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z On the grounds that it just wasn’t supportable and would swiftly be reversed. Russia Raises Interest Rates To 17% To Defend Ruble; Might Work, Might Not 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Either one of those ideas is supportable alone but to believe both I guess you’ve got to be a Very Serious Person. The New York Times Entirely Misunderstands The FCC Spectrum Auction 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Sadly that’s not actually a supportable conclusion for the reasons quoted above. Paul Krugman Falls For The American Inequality Fallacy 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Research showed that too many prescriptions had been written for patients with conditions “for which there is little supportable evidence” that Acthar is effective, the Defense Health Agency spokesman Kevin Dwyer said in an email. The Obscure Drug With a Growing Medicare Tab 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But I think it’s a supportable position to state that this expansion of smartphones is the defining economic shift of our times. Astonishing Number: Ericsson Predicts 5.9 Billion Smarpthone Users Within 5 Years 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Yes, this is indeed a supposition but one that I think is reasonably supportable. The Global Differences Between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn And Pinterest 2013-12-30T17:41:00Z "If a system is introduced too rapidly, and without adequate testing and evidence, the prospect of a workable and supportable biodiversity offsetting system would be undermined for many years to come." Biodiversity plans 'too simplistic' 2013-11-12T02:23:27Z There’s always going to be a number of assumptions in any playing around like this and some of those assumptions will be supportable, others less so. Apple Is Valued at $440 For Each Of Its Users 2013-06-15T14:29:00Z They argued that the club's claim was wrong in law, offended logic and was not supportable on the facts. Leeds United win high court ruling over police costs at Elland Road 2012-07-24T09:54:16Z Citi called its valuation of the venture "reasonable and supportable," adding it expects to close the sale of the 14 percent stake to Morgan Stanley by Sept. UPDATE 2-Citi, Morgan Stanley far apart on joint-venture value 2012-07-20T00:57:19Z Citi called its valuation of the venture "reasonable and supportable, " adding i t expects to close the sale of the 14 percent stake to Morgan Stanley by Sept. UPDATE 1-Citigroup, Morgan Stanley far apart on joint-venture value 2012-07-19T22:21:14Z Edward de Vaux bent down his head upon his hands, and covered his eyes, with a feeling of shame and degradation that was hardly supportable. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z As long as the dome overawes, that fa�ade is supportable. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The yoke of life is to them light and supportable. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Work without disputing; it is the only way to render life supportable. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z They lie about a thousand miles nearer to the equator and this makes their climate more humid and less supportable to white men. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z By this means we render supportable the severest pain and the most trying circumstances. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z The toils of men, the callings conquered by civilization, go to achieve slowly and painfully what woman performs at once and without endeavor, making life more supportable, and alleviating its woes. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z These horrid long winters, and the sky, which is from month to month of the darkest dun colour, need some news from you to render life supportable. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z “Work, then, without disputing; it is the only way to render life supportable.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Neither of these claims were supportable as framed by the doctor. At War Blog: Propaganda in the Heat of the the Libyan Battlefield 2011-11-02T19:55:16Z She had her troubles, her timidity, and her diffidence to contend with, but she made life supportable and even happy. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z If I understand you correctly, until the other person allows him to perceive that his absence would be supportable. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Let us not renounce a supportable existence for dreams. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The chains, it is true, were not exceedingly heavy; they did not in general weigh more than eight or ten pounds, which is a supportable burden for a man in good health. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Religion! source and parent of resignation! under thy influence how supportable is every earthly calamity! how supportable, because how transitory becomes all human woe, where heaven and eternity seem full in view! The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Yet those commands, however arbitrary and unfeeling, were more supportable than those with which, after every other source of tyrannic authority had been drained, the day was ordinarily concluded. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z The very ruins of the Greek world instruct us how our modern life might be made supportable. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z After the life I had led at Basra, I thought it better to leave that place, for it seemed to me my misery would be more supportable among strangers. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z My attendance was assiduous, but it was the sense of duty that rendered my attendance a supportable task. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z There was no sign of any of the utensils, no sign of the hammocks or the articles that we had fashioned to make life supportable in this tropic desert. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The best Definition of the best Government is, that it hath no Inconveniences but such as are supportable; but Inconveniences there must be. A Character of King Charles the Second 2011-03-31T02:00:18.840Z On the whole the affliction was quite supportable. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z The former, alas! are gradually sinking deeper and deeper into the meshes of superstition and idolatry; the latter groans under a heavy yoke, rendered still less supportable by the grossest ignorance. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z He knew that he had given way chiefly because the results of his holding out against her were hardly supportable to himself. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z This thought occurred to me while you were telling your story, and I suddenly fancied that I should like to try whether existence under your circumstances could make the burden of life supportable. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z Indeed, they should be open to the possibility of finding supportable measures that would be good for the country and totally compatible with their values. Newt Gingrich: It's Time to Team Up 2010-02-18T09:00:00Z We can pardon the author of The History of France much, but we will never forgive in him a vice that has ceased to be supportable in the most ignorant of his countrymen. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 But painful as they were, they were still more supportable to me than the melancholy thought of being fettered for life. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise To Georgie the life at the vicarage is quite supportable,—is, indeed, balm to her wounded spirit. Faith and Unfaith He only thought to himself: "Mankind would have been more supportable, had the Deity set a limit to the quantum." Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle You will have to re-establish supportable and humane relations: so set to work in such a manner as not to make them impossible! Above the Battle We must love it if life is to be supportable to us. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Caspar had lost his interest in Florian's narration, and hastened to meet the new-comers and light them to their supportable, which was set in the back room. Black Forest Village Stories Any inconveniences are more supportable than being separated from one's children. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. I have endeavored to make that idea supportable by the conviction that the survivorship will be short—the re-union certain—speedy—eternal. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The two men became familiars, and the friendship made life more supportable to both. Prisoners of Conscience To find fault with the devices of the poor, and yet not to help them—is not that one of the things least easily supportable of all the spurns of patient merit? Sir Tom The officer blessed his stars that he had enough to live upon, and that he was now quitting a service which, having lost its brightest ornament, was no longer interesting or supportable. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) She hardly knew which would be the more supportable—the joy or the dismay. The Side Of The Angels A Novel He had just gone abroad again, and she had taken the opportunity of coming to see her grandmother—and even of living with her for awhile, if she found Birchmead supportable. Name and Fame A Novel My distress and anxiety of mind were scarcely supportable. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 A fortnight of such unutterable misery is quite supportable, however, if one continues to cherish the Paradise already mentioned. The Book of Khalid We ought to hold all things here in contempt; death is to be looked on with indifference; pains and labours must be considered as easily supportable. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero My friend, do not deprive me of the only hope that can make life supportable. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots I think it a supportable thesis that every age, every wide and popular movement, finds its supreme expression in a Poet. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Gold-bugs and mugwumps—” “If you can spare the time,” said I, “and kindly explain what has disturbed you in my remarks, we’ll each be likely to find the rest of these forty miles more supportable.” Red Men and White Habit makes many things supportable which at first would seem beyond our powers of endurance. The Adventures of a Bear And a Great Bear too And as to pain too, he has certain rules to follow then: if it be great, the comfort is, that it must be short; if it be of long continuance, then it must be supportable. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero The exploring party were rejoiced to find everything in good condition, which assured them a supportable though it might be a rough winter. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories Having through this lost a confidence which alone rendered life supportable to me, it is impossible for me to take the journey so p. 45much thought of. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete In civilization he might have found the wickiup too close to be supportable, but in that raging wilderness, raging then at least, it was snug beyond compare. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Even with four epithets, the almoners seem to find life supportable. Highways and Byways in Surrey For the first hour of their march the shade of the trees rendered the heat supportable, but soon the forest ended, and the road debouched upon the open plains that appeared interminable. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Instead of being content with me for retiring to this wilderness of a place, which I did to please her, she does nothing to render my life supportable.” Major Frank James's presence is of the greatest comfort to me, and alone enables me to make my cabin supportable. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II They had not only saved his life, but, thanks to his father’s money, he had been fitted out with certain artificial aids to the human body which would go far towards making life supportable. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Have always death before your eyes, and the evils which are least supportable, and you would never think meanly of anything, nor desire anything in excess. Pascal The sun was reflected, with a glare scarcely more supportable than the heat, from the massive gold ornaments which glistened in every direction. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century True, there are no newspapers and no Parliament; but existence has often been found supportable in the absence of these things. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The historical form has at last found a poet to render it supportable. The Merry-Go-Round There was the daily round of work—almost incessant work, life being supportable that way and in no other. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Although Tahaiti is only seventeen degrees from the Equator, the heat is so much moderated by refreshing breezes that it is very supportable even to an European. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 We do not know that either proposition is true, but the matter is not worth bothering about, for both states are supportable—life despite its pleasures and death despite its repose. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 This is supportable, or may be disguised in poetry; it becomes intolerable in prose. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Jack and Adair, indeed, had been pretty well seasoned to the heat of the coast of Africa, where, if not greater, it was often far less supportable. The Three Midshipmen It would even be in vain, at the present moment, to offer us conditions, to render a new government more supportable. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II Now, she was innocent of any wrong towards Philip and herself; and, in this consciousness, any lot must be supportable. Deerbrook At first, it is true, she tries to make the attic more supportable; imparts a pleasant flavour to the meal; dismisses the hurdy-gurdies that Callender has chartered from the Universal Provider. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 To some minds, to mine amongst others, human life is scarcely supportable far from some stately and magnificent object, worthy of endless study and admiration. Confessions of a Book-Lover She was afraid to give up the flesh-pots of this world in case she found life without them too dull to be supportable. There was a King in Egypt Encouraged by the success that was attending her unselfish efforts to harmonize her own and her uncle's conceptions of the temporal fitness of things, Miss Lee began to find life at the Pier quite supportable. The Uncle Of An Angel 1891 "In her case the end would make any sort of means supportable," Honoria answered. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The only thing which makes it supportable for a while is curiosity. Chance A Tale in Two Parts I am considering now that multitude of people who live under conditions at least supportable. The Simple Life As great to me as late; and, supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter. The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Affectation, in a woman, is supportable upon no other ground than that general indulgence we pay to the omnipotence of beauty, which in a degree sanctifies whatever it adopts. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency For a thousand years, this English Nation has found them useful or supportable: they have served this English Nation's wants; been a road to it through the abyss of Time. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III That he abounds with images of too florid a kind; affected turns; conceits and frivolous thoughts; which, far from being adapted to his Jerusalem, could hardly be supportable in his 'Aminta.' Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Our lot was that which many poor seamen have endured, but that did not make it more supportable to us. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat The continual hope of departure rendered all privations supportable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 I have wondered at the patience of the antediluvians; their libraries were insufficiently furnished; how then could seven or eight hundred years of life be supportable?—Cowper, Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) His great object now is to render his existence supportable. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Imprisonment, poverty, dependence, personal infirmity, were all supportable evils. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel To hear myself praised beyond them was cruel, to hear qualities ascribed to them so strangely the reverse of their real characteristics was scarce supportable. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The heat still remained at quite a supportable degree. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth The bank by the towing-path is steep and shadowless, being bare of trees or hedge; but the grass is pleasant to rest on, and heat is always more supportable near flowing water. Nature Near London If that were a reason for taking human life away, then it would follow that, whenever a man considers his life as useless and no longer supportable, he could end it, he could commit suicide. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Many odours had been met with, even since my arrival in the city, less supportable than this. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He continues just the same: often anxious and bad-tempered, sometimes rather tolerable—just supportable. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Even the life of a duck in a farmyard drain becomes in a wonderful way supportable when you tackle it as cheerfully as that. Letters from France Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.—Colton. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age The poetry of Milton is not a part of daily life, though for some it makes daily life supportable. Art To be immersed in the infection of the hospital, and to be hurried, yet breathing and observant, to my grave, was a more supportable fate. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 My child, on whose frail help I had counted to make our life more supportable to my husband and myself, is dead. Hetty Wesley The latter taught her to struggle for resignation; and the former rendered life supportable. Mary A Fiction The days are much hotter here than in England, but the heat is more supportable from the breezes which always spring up about noon; and the evenings are charming beyond expression. The History of Emily Montague My situation here was such as I both expected and wished, and attended with many outward circumstances which had the probability of making it supportable. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. It may temper my impetuous wishes; lull my intoxication; and render my happiness supportable; and, indeed, it has produced partly this effect already. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Life was so terrible it would not be supportable without love. The Judge If you find these verses sufficiently supportable, so that people will not laugh at me, you can put them into the Paris paper, even with my name. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Most of the running-tackle of the ship had been used for macaroni soup; all the leather work, our shoes included, had been devoured in omelettes; with oakum and tar we had made fairly supportable salad. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales The next packet will explain the whole; and, I trust, will relieve our minds of that burden, hardly supportable at present. The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters The idea of a suspension of existence, is scarcely supportable; and the reality of it contradicted by every part of revelation. Sermons on Various Important Subjects Though the weather was still more than usually warm, a grateful breeze came morning and evening from the sea and tempered the heat so much as to render it always supportable. The Lost Stradivarius This is hard: but what it is out of our power to amend, becomes more supportable by patience. The Works of Horace Pray Heaven you may long keep your right hand steady: you, too, I can perceive, will never, any more than myself, learn to "write by dictation" in a manner that will be supportable to you. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. If a horse should be elated and say, "I am handsome," it would be supportable. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy With a good horse to whirl me over the world for two hours daily, I used to keep myself supportably well. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I But a few days and it will be supportable; a few months and it will have become no more than a tender melancholy. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 For a thousand years, this English Nation has found them useful or supportable; they have served this English Nation's want; been a road to it through the abyss of Time. Past and Present By this time my heart had settled down to a calmer throb, the paradisal scent had become more supportable, and I grew master of myself again. Aylwin Cowardice in a lawyer is more supportable than in an officer of the army. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer "What a happy thing is it," thought I, "that good nature generally accompanies this character; else, how would some people be supportable?" Pamela, Volume II It is so easy to die and be at peace; the only thing which makes life supportable is the knowledge of Death's quick obedience. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California Some not _in_supportable approximation indispensable and inevitable. Past and Present Why, then, should my absence now be less supportable to you than heretofore? The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 If the mischiefs of this vice, in a public station, were confined to enriching only those particular persons employed, the evil would be more supportable; but it is usually quite otherwise. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 580, Supplemental Number I imagine that the enjoyment of her society as a neighbor and friend may content me for the present, and render my condition supportable. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton The approaches of death how supportable to her; and why. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 Meanwhile the sea was favorable, and, except the delays, navigation would be accomplished under very supportable conditions. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Yet these hopes, thus freely expressed, as they are more sincere, so they are more supportable, than when they appear under the disguise and pretence of fears. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Though the negligence of the men was not very pleasing when compared with vows and adoration, yet it was far more supportable than the insolence of my own sex. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II That would have enabled me to marry her; and with her even wedlock would have been supportable. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton The lot of those who are able to get work is a thousand times more supportable than that of the toiling millions in our great cities. A Cotswold Village People soon become acquainted on board ship, and generally endeavour to agree as well as possible, in order to render the monotony of a long voyage at all supportable. A Woman's Journey Round the World Look into the History1 I have mentioned, or into any Series of Absolute Princes, how many Tyrants must you read through, before you come to an Emperor that is supportable. The Spectator, Volume 2. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. The Devil's Dictionary The descent only occupied two or three minutes, and yet the shock was supportable. Wonderful Balloon Ascents From the softest habits of pleasure, from the unbounded command of industry and wealth, he was reduced to share the poverty of the Moors, supportable only to themselves by their ignorance of a happier condition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 I found the temperature supportable, especially in the high country round about Candy, where, after some heavy rain, it might almost be called cold. A Woman's Journey Round the World The following Letter was occasioned by my last Thursday's Paper upon the Absence of Lovers, and the Methods therein mentioned of making such Absence supportable. The Spectator, Volume 2. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame—a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. The Devil's Dictionary And, after all, I found their natural smell was much more supportable, than when they used perfumes, under which I immediately swooned away. Gulliver's Travels In America, the being placed upon the jury is looked upon as a burden, but it is a burden which is very supportable. Democracy in America — Volume 2 Returned to his dungeon, the sufferings of Ambrosio's body were far more supportable than those of his mind. The Monk; a romance Amongst them misery appears beneath the most revolting aspect; whilst the poorest Gitano preserves a certain deportment which would make his aspect supportable, if his unquiet and ferocious glance did not inspire us with aversion.' The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable. Persuasion He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable. Gulliver's Travels All his fortune and splendor scarcely sufficed to make the idea of himself supportable. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy As enormities grew every day less supportable, he found it necessary to concur in the revolution. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Life is such a scene of trouble and disappointment that the sensible mind can ill endure the loss of any consolation that renders it supportable. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire If it be for what I apprehend it to be, life will not be supportable upon the terms. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 The hot drinks soon succeeded in thawing me from a snow woman back to shivering flesh and blood which was supportable. A Woman Tenderfoot They were full, rich, and juicy, and proved to be a grateful restorative, after our day's exposure to the direct rays of the sun, and their scarcely less supportable reflection from the water. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 But such is the Folly of this Sect of Women, that they carry on this pretty skittish Behaviour, till they have no charms left to render it supportable. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays There is nothing but the dear business of friendship, and the employment of disinterested affection that could make it supportable. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian In America the being placed upon the jury is looked upon as a burden, but it is a burden which is very supportable. American Institutions and Their Influence Here we are now eight days at sea, the eternal sameness of all around growing every hour less supportable. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 He bore it with his usual philosophy—trying to read or write whenever the pain was supportable. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 It shows Virtue in the fairest Light, takes off in some measure from the Deformity of Vice, and makes even Folly and Impertinence supportable. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays The more he needed reproof the less supportable it became. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker No: a healthy, rich, jolly, country gentleman, if miserable, has a very supportable misery: if a sinner, has very few people to tell him so. The Virginians Command my influence to render your exile and that of this interesting young person more supportable. Quentin Durward As long as the dome overawes, that facade is supportable. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Their instinct is sufficient; while all the faculties of man scarcely suffice to render his existence supportable, and to satisfy the wants, which his imagination and his prejudices multiply to his torment. Good Sense All his fortune and splendour scarcely sufficed to make the idea of himself supportable. The History of Pendennis But were he to learn more of them, he feared lest her past, now colourless, fluid and supportable, might assume a tangible, an obscene form, with individual and diabolical features. Swann's Way If Clytemnestra were depicted not as rejoicing in the success of her crime, but repentant and softened by maternal love, then, it is true, her death would no longer be supportable. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Even the imperious Mr Delvile was more supportable here than in London: secure in his own castle, he looked around him with a pride of power and of possession which softened while it swelled him. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 Life itself to make it supportable, should not be considered too near; my reason represents to me in vain the inutility of serious reflections. Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) In one sense, however, the character of the season had changed; the dry, equal cold, that was generally supportable, having been succeeded by tempests that were sometimes a little moist, but oftener of intense frigidity. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers If the conditions of peace imposed by the treaties were considered supportable, remembering the fact that the late enemies were harmless, against whom are these continuous increase of armaments? Peaceless Europe But, Sir Robert Wortley, is it supportable this thing?"—a brand now on his brow—"an alien race in Britain opposing thus daringly not my will only, but the plain will of the people? The Lord of the Sea Lee Randon was possessed by a recklessness that hardened him to everything but the present moment: such times were few in existence, hours of vivid living which alone made the dull weight of years supportable. Cytherea They did not wish to lose a third party who rendered their evenings supportable; and they did not wish the dining-room and the whole house to become a cruel and sinister spot like their room. Theresa Raquin It was a voice fit to utter the most exquisite things, a voice which would have made silly chatter supportable and the roughest talk fascinating. Victory An Island Tale The accounts of the preceding night had been most cruel, and to quit the spot was scarce supportable to him. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Even the imperious Mr. Delville was more supportable here than in London. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 Travellers are told that June and July are the cream of the year, the healthiest time for seasoned Europeans, and this phantom of a winter renders the climate more supportable to the northern constitution. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Lord Jim He had plunged into it headlong, perhaps to render death, the answer that faced one at every inquiry, more supportable. Victory An Island Tale A union with him was a safe investment, and must be several degrees more supportable than was her position at Ridgeley, banned by its owner and patronized by his wife. At Last Her life was dreary enough, and there was but very little of hope in it to make its dreariness supportable. He Knew He Was Right Couldn't you try to render my condition supportable. The Lucky Man The transition from hyperinflation or high inflation to a supportable level of inflation is a matter of one or two decades. After the Rain : how the West lost the East For my part, I think the vices and miseries to be found in the latter, exceed those of the former; in which real evil is more scarce, more supportable, and less enormous. Letters from an American Farmer Several weeks elapsed, during which my life in the fortress became not only supportable, but even agreeable. Marie; a story of Russian love A great load of misery is heavy for a man to bear alone, but it is supportable when he is helped. The New Book of Martyrs Couldn't you try to render my condition supportable? The Lucky Man He foresees The fatal issue to his health, fame, peace, Fortune, and dignity; the loss of all That can ennoble man, and make frail life, Short as it is, supportable. The Task and Other Poems "My dear child, I know that you think so to-day; but you will soon change, and find that wealth is a supportable misfortune." Old Fritz and the New Era From this we know that the waves washed the shores near this BOUGRY, and that a milder climate probably prevailed in these regions, making life more supportable. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. Essays and Tales The first is the terrible danger of becoming that most odious and least supportable of persons—a prig. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day The tyranny of an individual is far more supportable than the tyranny of a caste. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Kalkstein is to take a main hand in the Siege of Neisse; for which operation it is hoped there will soon be weather, if not favorable yet supportable. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 The Prince's life, in this his eclipsed state, is one of constraint, anxiety, continual liability; but after the first months are well over, it begins to be more supportable than we should think. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. The Way of All Flesh I am contented; I am enjoying the tranquility of mind which comes from a well-defined, well- regulated, and after all, very supportable position. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels I don't expect that," cried the father; "all I ask is that her life be made supportable. The Brotherhood of Consolation Count Bunker's position was now less supportable than ever. Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large As great to me, as late; and, supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter. The Tempest The only thing which makes it supportable for a while is curiosity. Chance A Tale in Two Parts We must now only think of you, my dear friend, and so act as to render your captivity supportable or your flight possible. The Count of Monte Cristo A gift from the dead, great and little, it makes life supportable, it almost makes one believe in a benevolent scheme of creation. Notes on Life and Letters |
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