| 单词 | insupportable |
| 例句 | Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I rose from my chair and, like one distempered, began shouting, “ This is insupportable!” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The enforced passivity of their defence, the interminable waiting, became insupportable. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She answered bitterly, “Good fortune! Say, rather, sorrow that makes life insupportable.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The GAC had reached the conclusion that the intensified test schedule really was placing insupportable pressure on Los Alamos; sooner or later, Oppenheimer feared, the workload would erode the quality of the lab’s product. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In point of fact, Linda aspired to certain illusions of security offered by those establishment traditions and values which had created an insupportable tension between the lawyer and his first wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, the almost insupportable tension fostered a sort of mania. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However, the abundance of cases like Kenny's tells us that the number of lives like his that have been ruined may in fact be insupportably high. Do you have the courage of Conviction to fight miscarriages of justice? 2011-01-17T15:49:38Z Having promised the terrified Anne that he would never put her in a home or hospital, Georges is placed under the increasing, insupportable strain caring for her at home. Cannes 2012: Amour ? review 2012-05-20T14:26:48Z Here are all the reasons why the way we live now, as then, is insupportable, inexcusable, immoral and unhappy for too many. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z Though “Russian Troll Farm” is filled with deeply sad people doing deeply insupportable things like that, it is billed as a comedy. ‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z "We are confident that the courts will see through this insupportable nuisance lawsuit," he said. NYC's Met Museum accused of duping on fees 2013-03-25T17:56:12Z On the other hand, if Mr. Sorkin did not make major changes, the play would be both structurally and politically insupportable in 2018. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Now humans had to contend not only with the fear of death but also the “psychologically insupportable” possibility of a “collective incineration and extinction which could come at any time, virtually without warning.” Art Review: ?Pop Objects? and ?1960s Monochrome? at Guggenheim - Review 2012-01-12T21:55:15Z Mourning has been privatised, and the burden this imposes on the most egregiously bereaved has become understandably insupportable. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z But, in the wake of #MeToo, Time’s Up and Rudin’s defenestration, those narratives are looking increasingly insupportable as generational attitudes shift regarding power, accountability and workplace culture. Perspective | Scott Rudin’s bad behavior was just another Hollywood cliche until a new generation said time’s up 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z “We are confident that the courts will see through this insupportable nuisance lawsuit,” he said. NYC’s Met Museum Accused of Duping on Fees 2013-03-25T13:47:37Z "We are confident that the courts will see through this insupportable nuisance lawsuit." NYC art museum accused of duping visitors on fees 2013-03-25T09:46:04Z Whereas George . . . king of Great Britain . . . heretofore entrusted with the exercise of the kingly office in this government hath endeavored to pervert the same into a detestable and insupportable tyranny . ArtsBeat: Founding Fathers Go Electric 2013-07-04T05:00:27Z But given how the Biden case unfolded, it would have been insupportable to have a special counsel for one and not for the other. Opinion | The Trump and Biden cases are similar, but they are not the same 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The long-running myth that the rebel generals had no connection to racism became insupportable when contemporary white supremacists swaddled themselves in Confederate symbols. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z We are as a society — and by "we" I mean virtually all of us on the planet — brought up to believe howling absurdities, ridiculous impossibilities, and insupportable malarkey from our very first moments on Earth. The power of the Big Lie: Why do 30% of Americans cling to Trump's dark fantasy? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “That position is insupportable as a matter of precedent and common sense,” he wrote. Supreme Court Rules Against Union Recruiting on California Farms 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “That position is insupportable as a matter of precedent and common sense,” Roberts wrote. Supreme Court strikes down Calif. regulation allowing union access to farmworkers on growers’ land 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z For a culture so neurocentric — so brain-bound, as Mr. Clark later called it — this was an insupportable notion, a bridge too far. Opinion | How to Think Outside Your Brain 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z That would be an unprecedented and insupportable departure from the centuries-old tradition that the U.S. Column: Remember Louis DeJoy? He's still in charge of the Postal Service, but why? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z To claim that mailed ballots will clog the system is utterly insupportable. Opinion | Sabotaging the post office 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Another day in the United States, another unarmed black man dead following unwarranted, insupportable, outrageous police violence. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Fans call it endearing creativity; critics, insupportable incivility. Rome Has Been Sacked, Conquered and Abandoned. Now It’s the Pandemic’s Turn. 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z There he argued that the emergence of banks that were too big to fail, so forcing central bank rescues, was morally and economically insupportable and they should be broken up. Paul Volcker obituary 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This was, as they say in Europe, "insupportable". How robust is the world's financial plumbing? 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “It goes to show the legally insupportable position of the White House,” he added. Trump’s Impeachment Blockade Crumbles as Witnesses Agree to Talk 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Just chemicals and mankind’s insupportable and overwhelming desire to try new things, even if it means the death of him. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z That’s insupportable, and in fact, it’s highly doubtful that most citizens of the District would support such a measure. Opinion | For some of D.C.’s most violent criminals, a get-out-of-jail-soon card 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z But the loss of Istanbul, where Erdogan launched his political career by serving as mayor, was seemingly insupportable. Many in Turkey see voiding of Istanbul vote as latest sign of Erdogan's autocracy 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z From “the obliterated place” inside herself, she speaks directly to the obliterated place within him, the hole that one day will be filled with more than just insupportable grief. Review: In ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ Cheryl Strayed's advice columns are reborn as very human theater 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “As I understand it, his theory is premised on a novel and legally insupportable reading of the law,” Mr. Barr wrote. Democrats call for attorney general nominee William Barr to withdraw after memo criticizing Robert M 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The move is irresponsible and insupportable, especially for a school on a campus named for social justice warrior Kennedy, who was murdered at the site in 1968. LAUSD caves to claims of racism on a school mural. It's deplorable 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Crain’s 13-page divorce petition states the couple’s marriage “has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities,” according to the documents published online by the Smoking Gun. Stormy Daniels’s husband files for divorce and seeks restraining order 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “It is my aunts who are being driven by malice and greed to make the vexatious, false, and insupportable allegations which form the basis of their probate lawsuit in New Hampshire,” he said. Vermont man insists he didn’t kill mother, grandfather 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “You’re talking about tens of billions of dollars in shifted expenses, which is an insupportable number,” he said. On ‘Tin Cup Day,’ Mayor de Blasio Sees a Role Reversal of Sorts 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z And then you have three high-value journalists resign because a major story is insupportable and has to be retracted. Liberal media won’t stop going after Donald Trump 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z That people who were so vulnerable and needed special care were instead treated as an afterthought is insupportable. Opinion | The inexplicable horror of the deaths of eight elderly people in Florida 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The pain was agonising, the loss of independence insupportable. Marieke Vervoort: Paralympian who has signed euthanasia papers 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The act wasn’t repealed until America’s alliance with the Chinese during World War II made it insupportable. Asian activism more visible — and needed 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z It is insupportable that police officers are being gunned down — and it is insupportable that blacks are unfairly targeted and wrongly killed. After Dallas and Baton Rouge, how do we ‘stop this killing’? 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z “The debtors suffer from crippling legacy labor obligations, principally in the form of medical benefits and pension obligations, as well as insupportable hourly labor cost,” the Birmingham, Ala.-based Walter said in court papers. Walter Energy Wants Bankruptcy Court’s Approval to End Labor Pacts 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z To most of us these statements may sound, at best, insupportable or, at worst, crazy. Are plants intelligent? New book says yes 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z And there I read, “If we could see ourselves as we really are, life would be insupportable.” The Long-Lost Tale of the World’s Longest Book 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z He says the level and pace of change in the NHS remains "unsustainably high" and that the bureaucratic and regulatory burden is "fast becoming insupportable". NHS management - the retailer's view - BBC News 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Turkey is already home to nearly 2 million Syrians, and the latest influx triggered by the fight for Tal Abyad set off warnings that the refugee population was reaching insupportable levels. Kurds deal major blow to Islamic State 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It wasn’t overwhelming enough to prevent his vetoing any congressional move he finds insupportable. Obama: Bad But Lucky 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s the constant and often insupportable stress of upholding this model for society and personhood for which The Sims wants to create an escapist catharsis. How Does The Sims 4 Handle Gender And Racism? 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z "China's interests lie in a transition to minimally acceptable standards of behavior in Pyongyang, not in supporting the insupportable pending the outright collapse of Kim's regime," they write. North Korea's fate in China's hands 2014-02-21T03:13:48Z There is the provocative and then there is the insupportable. Are we nearing the end of science? 2014-02-10T22:48:47Z In its statement, Boxun News said its sources “cannot support the information reported” and that the site “now acknowledges that its reports were insupportable and improper.” Sinosphere Blog: Zhang Ziyi Settles Libel Suit and U.S. Website Retracts Story 2013-12-18T09:16:00Z Politicians along with actors obviously have a preternatural need for attention, but, at the same time, they lead a public life of the greatest insincerity that is insupportable. Anthony Weiner: America can tolerate a lot, but apparently not a 'wanker mayor' 2013-07-29T14:22:00Z "Without variety of function and humanity of scale, the city becomes monstrous and insupportable." City Room: Ada Louise Huxtable's New York 2013-01-08T23:22:59Z Without diligence your hiring costs, or indeed ingest costs, become insupportable. Will IBM's Bet On A Realigned Jobs Market Be Its Undoing? 2012-10-22T14:11:12Z By mounting a legal challenge to the First Group's bid for the West Coast franchise, which he considered insupportably risky, Sir Richard Branson may have begun the unravelling of the whole franchising process. Trouble on the line: what caused the train franchise fiasco? 2012-10-05T23:05:31Z Third, if these problems are not dealt with seriously, the U.S. economy will slide along for a while with below-average growth and above-average unemployment until debt and other financial problems become insupportable. The Six Daunting Financial Problems Facing America 2012-08-21T12:00:49Z Debt continues to compound for the financially weakest European countries, and sooner or later it will become insupportable. Why the Euro Zone Could Unravel Shockingly Fast 2012-06-05T07:00:46Z Her pride found such a sensation insupportable and she made haste to return him all his jewels. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z "Mother, my life is insupportable;" and tears began to flow. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z It was to the royal power, thus rising to supremacy, that the people instinctively turned for relief from the inquisitorial tyranny which was becoming insupportable. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z In 25 years, it will reach nearly 200%, at which point the Federal debt will be insupportable, unless it is devalued significantly through inflation. The Six Daunting Financial Problems Facing America 2012-08-21T12:00:49Z She had come home abruptly from the dance-hall as she had an insupportable toothache—had run all the way, as she had some toothache-drops in her room. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Now there are moments when a person working in the same room—reading, writing, looking out of the window—becomes an insupportable infliction. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z The thought of leaving Candaules in free possession of Nyssia was insupportable to him; and, moreover, the vertigo of fatality had seized him. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The prospect of a vacant throne, or at least of a regency, awaiting him in Paris rendered further dallying in Lyons insupportable, nor could he well depart without bringing his errand to a successful issue. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z He had fainted for the first time in his strong life, and so that blessed unconsciousness was deadening the first insupportable agony of his dreadful wound. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z His confinement soon became insupportable to his impatient temper, and he resolved to avail himself of the first opportunity of escape. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z There are in this world many things we are obliged and enabled to encounter, which at a distance appear insupportable. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z For about three years, the light of day was insupportable, and every attempt at reading or writing completely debarred. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The tyranny of a servant is noticed by the wise man, if I recollect right, as one of the most irritating and insupportable of mortal miseries. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z A battalion is driven from its trenches as often as not owing to insupportable shell-fire concentrated on a particular area. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z If this pressure is doubled or trebled, as in submarine caissons, life becomes insupportable. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The distress of a whole family around me, young and tender infants hanging about me, are infinitely more insupportable than what I feel for myself, though I am obliged to borrow part of this clothing. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z My brain was whirling, and sometimes I stopped and pressed my head with both hands to relieve the insupportable pressure. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z And her eyes were wild with insupportable shame. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z This presently grew so insupportable that to escape from my embarrassment I coughed and affected to choke. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The light of day was at first insupportable, inflamed his eyes, and brought on spasms. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z These the law, which was promulgated in name of the Eternal, authorised to devour the rest of the nation, and to crush them under an insupportable yoke. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Caterina's tyranny had become insupportable, and there was no doubt that at the sight of Checco leading the papal army they would open their gates and welcome him as the Pope's representative. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z Darkness had just closed down on the lonely station, but the little rickety residency had lain for twelve hours under a burning sun, and now the big oil lamps raised the already almost insupportable temperature. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z "My pains are insupportable; I have an age of strength, but not an instant of courage." The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z I am risking all that because life became insupportable. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 21st, 1916 2012-02-21T03:00:19.417Z Had it not been for this, he would not have neglected to acquaint you with a fact so well calculated to inspire you with fear, and render life insupportable. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Pardon me," he said--but said it as if no pardon were needed, "I found the stables insupportably dull. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Then he turned and went out, and Ormsgill sat down again with a little gasp, for the tension of the last few minutes had been almost insupportable. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The third day the smell was insupportable, and the atmosphere unfit to support human life, but obviously healthy for flies. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Each animal is a "living stove," and the heat and closeness are so insupportable that one awakes quite unrefreshed in the morning in a temperature of 80°. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The war had left the great sea powers with excessive navies and insupportable naval budgets. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The dryness of the weather had increased since we left Shimuni, the currents had slackened, and the heat in the middle of the day was almost insupportable. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Darkness had closed down suddenly on the forest, but it was hotter than ever in the primitively furnished general room of Lamartine's house, where the lamp further raised the already almost insupportable temperature. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Whatever he had done before, this, surely, was insupportable. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z It was no want of fortitude; the torment must have been insupportable. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z Whigging is a nasty insupportable trade, and infects a man like a poison. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z McBungo's sleek sham sympathy and sinister surprise Made almost insupportable the burden of my life. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z They were not made to live that way, and if they find it insupportable you can't blame them. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The bareness and emptiness of life were then insupportable.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z They started at daybreak next morning, and before they had gone a league Ingleby found that the extra twelve pounds made his burden almost insupportable. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Between them the tops of the maples, level like a shorn hedge, kept up an immensity of tormented motion that invaded even the schoolroom with a sense of its insupportable fatigues. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The Burghers are not to be match'd for Affectedness, and their Conversation is insupportable. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z These are the bombinators, the dexterous geniuses able to translate the insupportable mystery of life. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z These thoughts came vaguely, and on his heart lay an all but insupportable load. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z She and her husband alike were a couple of children, dear children, but quite insupportable. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z His health, never of the best, was tried by the atmosphere, and finding the loneliness of his bachelor life insupportable, he begged an old College contemporary to pay him a visit. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Nothing is more vain nor more insupportable than a young Austrian, whose Father is in any Rank at Court. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z Then the people lost in their bubble become an insupportable mystery to themselves. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z In very warm days, when the building is crowded, the heat is almost insupportable. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z At that moment, when I was almost maddened by insupportable apprehension into starting up to meet, perhaps, certain destruction, something sprang upon my shoulder—upon the reptile! Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Her troubles, which would have been insupportable to anybody else, only momentarily disturbed her equanimity, and, rising above them, she soon recovered her habitual cheerful spirits. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z The chains were heavy, but as men and women had nothing else to carry, being entirely naked, their weight, he says, could not have been insupportable. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z He caused a great quantity of ice to be put into his bed, to temper the dryness of his skin, which was become insupportable. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z The utter weariness of an idle shore life soon became insupportable, and I determined to solicit the good offices of Sir Joseph Yorke with the Admiralty. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z It was precisely this uncommon devotion between him and his dear "Gran" that drove him into torment of perplexity when first his heart informed him life without Audrey was insupportable. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z He went into the house his old brooding self, and in a week, finding life there insupportable, ran up to town. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z It was served at night, just at that hour when Arctic cold becomes almost insupportable. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z When she became convalescent, Isabella must certainly have been made acquainted with the neglected education of Don Carlos, his bad principles, and his insupportable pride. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z To the orthodox Calvinists the word toleration was insupportable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z No—to create such a breach insupportable, and insupportable life without Audrey. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z She bore for a time with this state of affairs: when the general hostility became insupportable she set her mind to work to discover a remedy. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Nothing of moment happened until next day, but it appeared to me that there was an almost insupportable tension in the very atmosphere. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Ferdinand and his successors had granted privileges to this tribunal, which the encroachments of the inquisitors soon rendered insupportable. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z People have unequal capacities of work, both mental and bodily, and what is a light task for one is an insupportable burthen to another. Socialism 2011-11-27T03:00:13.337Z Insupportable to pass into the future without a closer sign of her!—insupportable even though the sign proved one that should reward his temerity by sealing her forever from his lips. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Then, his suspense becoming insupportable, he appeared once more within her presence. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Meanwhile, the suspense had grown almost insupportable to me. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z It grew insupportable after a while—it was melting me to nothingness. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z In a moment the horror was awake again—wide awake, hydra-headed, close at hand, insupportable. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z Five years is a monstrous, an insupportable period to youth that has lived but four times five or less. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Archie's insupportable vanities had begun her enlightenment; the menace of his father's condition had touched her with the fringe of its shadow; and now this revelation had come upon her. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z At times thick smoke wreaths blew into our eyes, the heat grew insupportable, and the first horse I freed would have seized me with its teeth but that I smote it hard upon the nostrils. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z But whatever the cause, he was conscious of every atom of this exaggerated spiritual alertness; of the speed with which his thoughts drove; of the almost insupportable mental clarity through which they shot. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z The thought of his mother being whisked off to the Tower of Toads was insupportable. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z She dropped to the ground with a collapsed action as though, oppressed as she was, standing were insupportable. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z The weather still continued almost insupportably hot, and to my other discomforts had been added a new perturbation that worked on me none the less that in all probability it was quite groundless. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z These ideas increased to so painful a degree, that, finding her solitude insupportable, she invited an orphan relation in narrow circumstances to take up her abode with her. Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter 2011-11-04T02:00:17.120Z The rule of the Constitutional Monarchy seemed to him even more insupportable than that of the Republic. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z This is rather dear; but the impost would be insupportable if his Grace insisted upon also showing himself for the money. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z Last night she had thought it insupportable to be left without him. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z My corner at King's Cross was well-nigh insupportable. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Thrown back upon herself by this bereavement, the intensity of her love for the Dean became insupportable. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z The poignancy of Mr. Brontë's grief on this occasion was profound, and all but insupportable. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Good gracious!" she exclaimed, "the insupportable little creature! The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The point did not seem of the least importance to her, but she was shaken, and felt that the silence which was growing significant would be insupportable. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z The uncertainty in which she was kept as to Chetham's fate was almost insupportable, and the bodily pain she had recently endured appeared light when compared with her present mental torture. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z An oppressive silence like this, when each is waiting for the other, becomes more insupportable every moment. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z He will be cold in my hut; the fresh water and hard bread will not seem good to him; Iermola will be to him only a garrulous, insupportable old grumbler. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z The contempt which the English nation affected for mine," she says, "rendered every individual belonging to it insupportable to me. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The theatres over there are insupportable; the atmosphere’s pestilential. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z My offer amounts to little, but it is made with a good heart, and if you find life with me insupportable you can leave me. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z He was not so lost as to seek Christina in person, and after his recent vigil there his own rooms were insupportable to him. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z "All that was told you was true; my life was insupportable." The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z But life is in reality so terribly serious, that it would be insupportable without such union of the pathetic and the comic; as our poets well know. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z From fears the most horrible of unknown dangers; and from fatigue nearly insupportable, she found herself suddenly welcomed by trusting kindness. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Could I presume to hope that from anguish so nearly insupportable, I was destined to be elevated,—every way!—to the summit of all I can conceive of terrestrial happiness!' The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z But the fainting fit of Juliet, and its uncontrollable effect upon Harleigh, had been so insupportable to her feelings, as to precipitate her design. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z All initiative is for them an insupportable burden. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z This was a very solid satisfaction to Ellis, to whom the calumny of Ireton had been almost insupportable. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z I must first—' 'On the contrary, her impatience will be insupportable if I do not relieve it immediately.' The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z The gross treatment which she had experienced, and the daily menace of being dismissed, were become utterly insupportable; and she determined, in a letter from Brighthelmstone, to take a final leave of Mrs Maple. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z For the last three days, since I have been recognised, I lead an insupportable life. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Not to be capable of deciphering alone a Latin letter when Rome and the Empire wrote their dispatches only in Latin, was an insupportable slavery to others. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Supper was brought; no one cared to eat it; and the evening began to drag along heavily, insupportably, and as silent as if all were listening to what the clock was whispering. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The moral cowardice of her hesitation came home to her with an insupportable pang, and her mind was made up before his last sentences put her face in flames. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Uncertainty crushed him with an insupportable weight, and he asked himself what he had to lay hands on. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The stillness was so intense that the ticking of my watch and the loud beating of my heart seemed insupportable. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z For her own pleasure, she preferred other topics; this particular one became at length insupportable to her. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z As he drew on the loathsome garments, buttoning the jacket close up to his chin, their very touch seemed to cling insupportably to his flesh. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Did ever they, while groaning under the most insupportable tyranny of their persecuting emperors, disown their authority, or suffer for not owning it? A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Faint and spiritless as they were, the streets were insupportable; and the child, throughout the remainder of that hard day, compelled herself to press on, that they might reach the country. Charles Dickens' Children Stories 2011-08-20T02:00:15.847Z The warfare, as it were; the struggle between the two grew insupportable; she was torn with conflicting thoughts, doubts, and fears. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z I acknowledge solitude an agreeable refreshment to a busy mind; but were these thinking people obliged to be always alone, I am apt to think they would quickly find their very being insupportable to them. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z Before the mid-day sun shot down his perpendicular and insupportable beams, I was already far from Rome, taking precisely the same road by which I had come thither. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Where we have been told that we were insupportable! Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z This was found to be almost insupportable with the thermometer standing at 90� Fahr. in the shade, forming so obvious a means for propagating malarial fever and sickness generally as to be absolutely exasperating. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Ah! those are right who hold that liberty is the greatest of blessings, for it is insupportable being shut up in a prison—let it be as large as France. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z As I remained sober and never touched a card, I was soon voted a wearisome, insupportable bore. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z Who knows what insupportable horrors may be therein concealed? The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Nevertheless, her blood was tingling with an apprehension which left the silence which had fallen almost insupportable. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z If all men had just the same powers and minds and characters, would not such a world stagnate from its insupportable dulness and the want of stimulus for the faculties of men? Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z As to Rome itself, the Religious Congregations have proved that it has not been made an insupportable place of residence for them. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The land breeze had delayed its coming, the temperature was almost insupportable, and the roar of the breakers set the whole factory vibrating in unison. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The Prior was satisfied with this answer, but soon afterwards, from the insupportable torment which I felt in my left arm, I could not contain myself, but screamed out aloud. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Then a curious smile grew in them, a smile of renewed contempt that must have been insupportable to a man of any feeling. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z And now this Belgian woman had found him out and rendered his life insupportable. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z I am of Lord Actons opinion, that Mr. Disraeli was morally insupportable, though otherwise astonishing. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z If the nations were in any true sense civilised, such forms of diversion would, I repeat, be insupportable to them. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Last week the DVD-and-streaming giant was forced, after years of insupportably cheap pricing, to raise its subscription fees as much as 60 percent, enraging customers and sending its stock price south. It's Netflix For Cliches! 2011-07-20T18:55:32Z The frigidity of the words became a threat that was insupportable. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Life in a great northern city again would be a horror insupportable. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z It was not that his virtue sank; his struggle against reality in the name of the ideal became insupportable. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z It is evident that life would be insupportable upon the earth if it were placed as near to Sirius as it is to the sun. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z Last week the DVD-and-streaming giant was forced, after years of insupportably cheap pricing, to raise its subscription fees as much as 60 percent, enraging customers and sending its stock price south. It's Netflix For Cliches! 2011-07-20T18:55:32Z Mrs. B. May not the inhabitants of Mercury, with equal plausibility, pity us for the insupportable coldness of our situation; and those of Jupiter and Saturn for our intolerable heat? Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The things were not ready, so he waited about two hours, occasionally wiping off the Gjende flies with his tail when their weight became insupportable, but otherwise never moving. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z The dignity, the high-mindedness, the angelic purity of the heroine is insupportable, and the stainless honour, the stern resistance to temptation, the defiance of tyrannical wrongdoers, makes the hero quite as bad. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Their anguish became almost insupportable when so near the goal; they thought to themselves they might yet be overtaken. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z This especially in the evenings, which, he says, would be insupportable without the theatres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z I know not what fate awaits me, but if it keep me much longer from you, it will be insupportable. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z In this counsel his parents acquiesced, but finding the idea of separation insupportably painful, they removed, and took a temporary residence near the Seminary of which he became a member. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z But this excessive facility for obtaining the privileges of nobility has given rise to a subaltern aristocracy, the most insupportable and oppressive imaginable; and has enormously multiplied the number of employés in the various departments. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z I believed it was in scorn and mockery, which to my feelings was insupportable. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z It is rather easy to grow accustomed to carrying ten additional pounds of fat when ten additional pounds of clothes would be an insupportable burden. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z His apprenticeship became insupportable, and he sighed continually for an opportunity of shortening it, which at length unexpectedly offered. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z After another hour’s sleep the sun became insupportable, for the wind had somewhat died down, so I ordered my faithful Hun to saddle up. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The scintillations from a thousand gems, with which its surface was enriched, lent to it a brilliance which eye-witnesses declare to have been almost insupportable. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z All this, however convenient at the present moment, made on me an impression hostile, destructive, and almost insupportable. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Slight discomforts by concentration of attention on them may be made insupportable. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But suddenly she swooned, overcome by the insupportable stink of this den, and the sailors carried her out in their arms. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Oh, Mahomet!" exclaimed Balkis, "I can dissimulate no longer; the part I am acting is insupportable. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z Knowledge of whatever kind afforded a compensation to labour; but the task being finished, that which remained, which in ordinary apprehensions would have been esteemed an easy and smooth path, was to him insupportably disgustful. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z This disaster had increased, to an insupportable degree, the vacancy and dreariness of her existence. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Her intervals of tranquillity, therefore, were short, while those of anxiety and dejection were insupportably tedious. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z “Of course I do,” said the philosopher in a low voice; “a number of them together are insupportable.” The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z A stay in Schiras, however, having become insupportable, I secretly left the court of Persia three days after the interment of my beloved princess. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z By degrees this pain increased till it became almost insupportable. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z The remembrance, though insupportable, will never leave me. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Many fear that China’s overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake. China and the world economy: Crosstown traffic 2011-05-26T10:46:21Z If I had lost an arm or a leg, it would be less insupportable; but a man without a nose! The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The cries of my children seemed insupportable to me. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z It is insupportable that my earthly paradise exist in your memory as a "bad eminence," like Satan's primacy. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Is it, then, true that God is to us an inexplicable enigma,—he without whom the most certain of all things that thus far we have discovered would be for us an insupportable enigma? Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Such reflections are pleasant at no age, but in youth, with its want of independence, of self- reliance, with its sensitive and fastidious self-love, they are insupportable. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z That is good, Professor," said Corrigan; "but to me there is insupportable loneliness about an isolated mountain. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z But the patriotism and the religious fanaticism of the Dutch revolted against this insupportable tyranny. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Nobody has more delighted than I in pointing out the greatness of Joaquin's great work; but nobody than I has more austerely condemned * * *, his vanity86 and the general humbugery that makes his prose so insupportable. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z From that moment the spectacle becomes to us insupportable. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The air is stifling, the odours insupportable; and when the sun pours down in the middle of summer, and the hot sirocco-like wind blows, the condition of matters is unbearable. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z But nothing to this pretty Frenchwoman was so insupportable as to be ignored. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The very act of putting them on was a relief to the mind of Bernard de Rohan; for, to a man accustomed to action, inactivity adds an almost insupportable burden to grief and anxiety. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z The fact has leaked out, and although not a soul of them buys and reads my books some of them bore me insupportably with their ignorant compliments and unwelcome attentions. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This is not all; when the illusion goes too far, the sentiment of art disappears in order to give place to a sentiment purely natural, sometimes insupportable. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z His thoughts became insupportable; and, for a time, he was nearly wrought up to phrensy by the intensity of the mental conflict. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z By this time the whole group began to feel the cold insupportably. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Critics of the monarchy counter that the cost of the institution is insupportably high, entrenching traditions that favor the country's elite. TIME Cover Story: The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton 2011-04-29T17:50:00Z At six o'clock, Zumalacarregui began to complain of insupportable thirst, and of pains all through the body; shortly afterwards, general shiverings came on, with convulsions at times. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Solitude is insupportable to a mind which is not easy, its troubles increase in the midst of silence, and retirement heightens them. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z He says in his diary, "I felt the want of some one to love me, and a desire that such a one might be very soon supplied, as my present state of mind seemed insupportable." Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Her bonds for the first time seemed insupportable. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Here and there a faint ray of light came down from above, the aperture through which it had passed serving to ventilate the gallery, the atmosphere of which would otherwise have been insupportable. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z You cannot but dread the forfeiture of such an inheritance as the most insupportable evil! Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z Somehow the day dragged through, and Tony was glad when at last he left Northrop as darkness came, for the uncertainty was growing insupportable. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z For example, even US Democrats agree with Tea party activists in the Republican party that if the US repeats what it did in the 2000s, then US public debt will double and become insupportable. We have forgotten the economic lessons our forebears taught us 2011-04-09T23:06:54Z At last, her agitation became so great, that she fell forward upon the cushions and began to moan faintly, as those who have lost the power to weep express pain, when it becomes insupportable. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z To all of these, MacDonough was insupportable, nor was there any visible escape from the insolent familiarity of his manner. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Don't close the doors; I can't endure heat and this room becomes insupportable without a slight current of air. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z It really isn’t decent, but—since you are persistent—what I went through at Northrop was getting insupportable. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z "He is an insupportable bore," muttered Vyner; "but let us avoid discussion with him, and keep him at a distance." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z After her beautiful city life, this homely apartment seemed full of insupportable gloom. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z I am tired of the place, and to be forever saying civil things to people is insupportable, and replying to their civility-speeches even worse. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z There is something insupportably offensive and revolting in the business-like way of those who execute the severities of the law. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z My worthy employer, however, evidently intends holding on forever, and the sordid, monotonous drudgery has been getting insupportable lately. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Wednesday, 29.—Yesterday the weather was cloudy, and the heat insupportable; and now we could not put on clothes enough to keep us warm. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I 2011-03-24T02:00:11.430Z The weather during the greater part of the day had been dull and lowering, and we found the atmosphere of Betanzos insupportably close and heavy. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Mr L——'s absence made this castle insupportably dull. Leonora 2011-03-22T02:00:21.627Z The bailiff was very much displeased at this journey; for he laid claim to Miss St. Yves in favor of his son, who was a still greater and more insupportable fool than his father. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The tension grew almost insupportable, when one of the soldiers who had a clear voice started the “Campanadas,” and the refrain, that spoke of grapes and kisses, rolled from four to four. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z To sleep in a bed this night would be insupportable. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z My hunger had now increased to an insupportable degree, and I felt as if something were gnawing within me—something like a crab tugging and riving at my stomach with his sharp claws. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z We could not tell; the humiliation of our defeat was beyond all words insupportable, and our wrists bled with our efforts to free them. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The most poignant anguish, the most insupportable dejection, succeeded in the soul of Rustan, to the immoderate joy which he had felt, to the hopes with which he had intoxicated himself. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z In this Manner I have made my self many Enemies, and the constant Fatigue of denying is almost insupportable. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Then came a relief that was well-nigh as insupportable. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z To continue accepting it would make his situation soon insupportable. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Soon the whole place was redolent with the smell of roasted flesh, and what with the pungent odour of that and of the burning wood and brandy the atmosphere became almost insupportable. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The filthy bailiff and his insupportable son did not trouble this affecting scene. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Away, to-morrow, or at latest, next day; and in due course would arrive the season—that tiresome House of Commons—and the routine of pleasure, grown on a sudden so insupportably dull. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Lord Verney concluded, therefore, that Mr. Dingwell was either a remarkably impertinent person, or most insupportably deficient in the commonest tact. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z But now, when this alliance really makes her insupportable, she won't hear of parting with her, and submits to a degree of tyranny from this woman that is utterly inexplicable. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Or—thought insupportable!—had she secretly yielded to another what she had so long denied me and— "Ah!" quoth Sinclair at this juncture, "I see that I have roused you at last." The Amethyst Box 2011-03-02T03:00:29.083Z With the arm in this position, a pound weight on the hand or even the weight of the arm itself becomes in a few minutes almost insupportable. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z "She had made up her mind that you would be insupportable, and she couldn't forgive you because you weren't," says that astute young man, with calm conviction. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z The women adorn their hands and legs in an insupportable manner, with huge brass rings; and they pierce their ears in which they place pendants more than one centimeter in diameter. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z How she endures it I can't conceive; a half-pay lover and a half-pay m�nage are two things that, to me at least, would be insupportable. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The heat on the 2nd of June was almost insupportable; but the sultry day proved one of greater quiet than had fallen to the lot of the Embassy since its first landing. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z To his thinking, the old Judge was an insupportable bore. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z When the silence is quite insupportable, poor little Dorothy struggles to the front. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z When Lafond suggested to Molly that she should leave the agency and take up her residence with him in Copper Creek, she assented very gladly, for she felt her present life insupportable. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z That would be clearly impossible! for it's not only that Ireland would be insupportable to us, but, as Mary Anne remarks, "we would be insupportable to the Irish." The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z No longer did she convey the impression of one passing through an insupportable mental crisis. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Several captives keep their mules, and some their servants; and yet this is called insupportable slavery among Turks and Moors. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z Mr. Boer is obnoxious, but Florence is simply insupportable. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Mr. Johnston Christie—he is very particular about the Johnston—I find quite insupportable; and Archie, the son, is worse. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Soldiering has always struck me as an insupportable line of life. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z For more than an hour it had made no visible movement, and their situation was becoming insupportable. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z These remonstrated incessantly against the iniquitous and insupportable weight of the burden imposed on them; but Antonio Ferrer replied, that they had possessed great advantages in times past, and now owed the public some reparation. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z In addition to my carpet-bag I had the heavy belt in which the gold pieces were secured, and the weight of which became almost insupportable. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z But such an inactive life was insupportable to him, and he soon resumed his former exciting pursuits. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z And Mrs. Henderson one of the most insupportable women, who torments her entire household with her nerves and whims, and her companion is a perfect victim to them. Partners A Novel. 2011-02-02T03:00:20.690Z Otherwise it would have been insupportable; otherwise they would have starved. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The poor man wandered from room to room in a state of insupportable alarm, commending himself to God, and beseeching his servants to be firm, and to find for him some way of escape! The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Housemaids, more especially, have an insupportable objection to opening windows, on account of the dust which flies in and settles upon the furniture. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z On the contrary, it seeks to remove the evils that make the homes of our millions insupportable. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z He had a trick of speaking of himself in the third person which Véronique knew of old and which was the sign of his insupportable vanity. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z My childhood was so utterly wretched, that my hopes had nothing but the distant future, and the older I grew, the more insupportable became my condition. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Tormented, however, by the necessity of ordering something to be done, and insupportably weary of waiting the slow approach of the carriage, he sent for an old woman who was attached to his service. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Still, when Walter looked around him in his old neighbourhood, like Sir Hugh when he had first returned, he felt at times a sense of desolation which was almost insupportable. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Nekayah, being thus reconciled to herself, found that no evil is insupportable, but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z That is, Of all my other miseries and griefs, the greatest and most insupportable, is the sense I have of my having so heinously offended the infinitely good, holy, and righteous God. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The pressure of the wooden disk upon McTaggart's chest seemed to become insupportable—a thing of infinite weight. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z These reflections made Lucy experience insupportable shame, and an inexplicable repugnance to speak on the subject. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Time glided by, and Mary Dell found that her life at home had become insupportable. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z The idea of opening them to strangers is insupportable. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z For, its full punishment and atonement could not but cause torment so exquisite, that to a mere man it had been altogether insupportable. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Could she have done the same and have gone back to England it might have been as well, but that would have been to leave Madge insupportably alone. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z They were thus confounded by the insupportable multitude and offensiveness of one of the objects of their idol worship, sent forth by another, as if purposely to punish them. The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets 2010-12-20T17:11:50.233Z But as she stood there in the shadow, with moonlight and starlight around her, his pulses quickened with an insupportable commotion of mingled hope and fear. The Law of Hemlock Mountain I find my native air insupportable, and fly northward for my life! Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z "Alter" observed that gentlemen could use the weed in the room where the match was played, but it must be in moderation, so as not to render the atmosphere insupportable. The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion We had no medical man on board, and my anxiety grew daily more and more insupportable. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Mutely he walked at his friend's side, now and then giving himself a shake, as if he would shake off from his soul some insupportable horror. The Undying Past He told himself that life with him would now be insupportable, and he fell to wondering again what the young man had seen. A Little World "I'm not accustomed, sir, to be talked to in that way," said Mr. Forrester, who felt that his visitor was becoming insupportable. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z How insupportable the idea that three thousand miles and the vast ocean now divide us! but divide only our persons, for the heart of my friend is in the bosom of his partner. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Also idleness in a boy was bad enough, but in a man paid weekly wages—insupportable. Deep Moat Grange He cannot feel the fever and the sadness The leaping fire, the insupportable glow. Challenge In Rome, the rule of the French soldiery is almost insupportable. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 What would she do to-day if he came into her presence bearing a curse and an insupportable burden of guilt upon him? Regina or the Sins of the Fathers This man’s insolence was becoming insupportable, and she could scarcely recognize him for the obsequious fellow who had been her husband’s right-hand dependence. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch To marry a man without romance would be insupportable; life would be too dull. The Gay Adventure A Romance It had made a bloody end to an insupportable bondage. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Without nayboen, life would be insupportable in a minute wilderness of rules and customs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 But the oppression under which he lived became insupportable. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. "It is insupportable," said the little mistress daily; and daily Cousin Copeland replied, "Certainly." Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches She protested, with hypocritical tears streaming from her eyes, that she could no longer support the constraint in which she lived; a constraint rendered the more insupportable by her pregnancy. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 In such a camp it was that the wild soldiery dwelt in unbridled licence, insupportable to the neighbourhood even in a friendly country. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Ruined property, prodigious debts, and insupportable lawsuits disturbed the few sober hours of the day. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. Much that appears insupportable to us was made bearable by ancient custom. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. For any girl the position would have been sufficiently unhappy, but for her, who had seen nothing of life, and who was of an extremely sensitive disposition, it was well-nigh insupportable. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance I therefore send off the insupportable old bore who will deliver this, to rescue them, and convey them to their fitting destination. The Fortunes Of Glencore But here we must take a higher point of view, from which the proceedings of Ferdinand II. appear still more insupportable. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. But this attendance in parliament of inferior tenants in chief, some of them too poor to have received knighthood, grew insupportably vexatious to themselves, and was not well liked by the king. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 This speciality of the old time becomes insupportable to us, and we readily accuse it of hypocrisy, callousness, and hollowness. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. It is to afford some relief from these almost insupportable evils that societies for watching the crops have originated. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The evil was insupportable from the very fact that it occupied his thoughts when great and momentous events required them. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) It seems to me that life would be insupportable, if the world were ever new and left us no repose. On the Heights A Novel Never did there exist a man of talent so insupportably obstinate, so disputatious, or so unamiable in society. Lives of Celebrated Women Crowds thronged around us and examined us with insupportable avidity. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 A sort of false vigour that sent him roaming about the house at times—haranguing in his brilliant, bitter way—insolent, vituperative, insupportable. Shadows of Flames A Novel The horror of that wicked head and those dripping fangs darting towards one's face was insupportable, and shriek followed shriek from the tortured victim. Bert Wilson at Panama The Venetians and Italians in general were a race of stupid mediocrities, unenlightened and insupportable. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The light gossip, too, over which they regaled themselves with such excellent relish, was insupportably dull. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) In certain quarters, more particularly where the especial poor and the especial vagabonds congregate, the stench is insupportable. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 In Florence, then, I copied for M. Ottaviano a large portrait of Cardinal Ippolito down to the knees, and other pictures, with which I kept myself occupied until the insupportable heat of summer. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. The long summer days would be insupportable without the follies and misfortunes of our neighbors to discuss. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance He did so, but the confusion of sounds quite stupefied him; even at this moment of deadly anguish, the discord was insupportable to him. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. And then she was sorry she had said it, for the Doctor jumped up and seized his hat; it was still insupportable to him, the thought of those two engagements. East Angels What rendered the feudal system in the end insupportable, was the change of manners, strengthening of government, and cessation of private wars, which left its evils, and took away its blessings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 By the blackmailing practices of the regents, tax collectors and soldiers, the pressure was increased to such a point that it became insupportable. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State But, on the other side, the thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man, even though a heathen. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The raven, in the kitchen, had broken the large can, and an insupportable smell of rosin penetrated into the room, when the door was opened. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. They walk silently in the dust with long strides, waving to and fro, exhaling an insupportable odor. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 It was just in the dawn of the spring season over London that further inaction became insupportable to him. Bye-Ways Still he clung to her, muttering his insupportable phrases. Ewing\\'s Lady These demonstrations of insupportable anguish on the part of the principal performer were received with evident and audible dissatisfaction by a large portion of the spectators of the drama. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Another dinner with Dane and Teresa as guests would be insupportable so soon after that other evening when she had met his eyes across the banked-up flowers, and felt that strange, sweet certainty of understanding. Lady Cassandra He was already heavily in the Colonel's debt; the thought of this weighed upon him almost insupportably. One Of Them The heat of the climate renders carpets, or even wooden floors, quite insupportable, and they are very rarely to be found. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time She laughed helplessly, as people laugh at something insupportable. Ewing\\'s Lady The warnings and insinuations of the agent had prepared me to meet a choleric and overbearing person—one whose manner was an insupportable provocation to those who worked under him. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Well might she wish to lay down her life, that her crazed brain had rendered insupportable. The Night Side of London If it was not purified by colossal and almost elementary force it would be insupportable. Michelangelo At this word Lyon Berners started, threw his hands to his head, and uttered a cry of insupportable anguish. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" Under the stress of these thoughts her heavy black garb became insupportable, and her head-dress weighed upon her like lead. Peasant Tales of Russia But he continued to thrash me as hard as over, until the life I led became quite insupportable, and at last I ran off with some provisions, and made my way towards Tartary. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Woe to you who make heavy and insupportable burthens, place them on the shoulders of men, but will not touch them with your finger.' The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth What is it that renders ridicule more insupportable than vituperation? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance How many men find their pleasure in what would be the positive horror and torment of the indolent, whose inefficient and shrinking spirit recoils from these tasks as insupportable burdens? The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. He thinks M. Mounet-Sully, in spite of his delicious voice, insupportable. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The odour pervading the interior of the Mongol tents, is, to those not accustomed to it, disgusting and almost insupportable. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The very thought of being ruled and directed by the 'canaille' was insupportably offensive, and he drove back those who rudely pressed upon him, and answered with contempt their words of insult and outrage. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier My character, too, has suffered, many deeming me insupportably indolent, a sluggard quite unfit for any active employment. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The failure of the crop was then severely felt, and two bad harvests in succession were almost insupportable. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Now, said Mr. B., he would lay a strong constraint upon himself, and reply to these statements as if they were not at once atrocious and insupportable. Discussion on American Slavery A draught of cold water should have been, according to our previous plan, the complement of our feast; but the only water attainable on this mountain was affected with an insupportable stench. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] These thoughts became at times almost insupportable, and his only relief against them was in great bodily fatigue. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The measure of our miseries is already full; our condition begins to be insupportable, and the life we lead is worse than that of beasts of burden. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. That would have been adding guilt to misfortune, and would have been insupportable. Waldfried A Novel The noise, however, soon subsiding, quiet again prevailed, and Oswald, to whom the confused and restless working of his mind had become almost insupportable, laid his weary head upon the table and tried to sleep. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist Another peculiarity is that milk, butter, curds, all insupportably odious to a Chinese, are especially favourite food with the inhabitants of Kan-Sou. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] This career of quiet, unobtrusive character was gradually becoming more and more insupportable to him. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands On the day of the Swiss f�te, the city where such a scandal took place seemed to him insupportable. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty And it is well that it is so; for this helps one over the heart-throbs that otherwise would be almost insupportable. Waldfried A Novel I do not mention the insupportable nausea of the stomach. The New Warden "There is a tyranny in the routine of these places quite insupportable—the hours, the discipline, the diet, and, worse than all, the dreadful people one meets with." Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day What insupportable ennui is that which inhabits the inn of a little remote town, where come few travellers, and no news! Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Nothing, however, is more insupportable to Men of Sense, than an empty formal Man who speaks in Proverbs, and decides all Controversies with a short Sentence. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time She ordered a sheep-skin coat for him, but he was obliged to decline it, because in his walks over hill and dale the weight of it would have been insupportable. Waldfried A Novel This man's intrusion at such a moment was insupportable. The New Warden Next day we continued our journey, but not a drop of water was to be found, ... and our distress became insupportable.... The Story of the Trapper To her the idea of associating with a wild, and unruly character like this was insupportable. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Alone on the wild heath, I disburdened my heart of an insupportable load, by giving free vent to my tears. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart When in the town the heat was almost insupportable; in our casa blanca it was never in the least degree oppressive. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia So they make the grave error of thinking that because fine ladies are insupportable, women who are not fine ladies will be sweet and companionable. Maids Wives and Bachelors There is a certain stage of wet-weather ennui which becomes absolutely insupportable. Loyal to the School The insupportable Latin!" cried the boy, stamping with his feet; and then jumping up to Tausdorf with the folio, he said, "Pray, now, help me out of this difficulty. Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians Besides, the thought was insupportable, of making this proposed visit in his society. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart "Such wise people as will not talk gossip,—such high-minded souls as never will condescend to say a good thing, or hear one, are insupportable." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life With almost insupportable anguish she wept over the death of this idolized child, and, with a trembling heart, awaited her husband's return. Josephine Makers of History He had already for a year followed his melancholy profession, when it began to grow insupportable. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors As for the quibblers—they, at least, are insupportable. Eureka: A Prose Poem All however was still tolerable, till Baron Wallen came to our house; he soon gained possession of my mother's affections, and the slavery now grew quite insupportable. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels For a second or two the agony of the idea was almost insupportable. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The tyranny of Robespierre had become nearly insupportable. Josephine Makers of History Nothing was more insupportable to Clara than tediousness; in her looks and in her words a mental drowsiness, not to be conquered, was expressed. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Charles recalled what had overtaken the dancer, La Clavel, in payment for a heroic effort against an insupportable oppression. The Bright Shawl The atmosphere being clear, the gradually widening prospect was beautiful, and Gertrude's delight was such that the restraint imposed by stage-coach decorum was almost insupportable. The Lamplighter She had not advanced as rapidly as she had hoped to do, and it would be insupportable humiliation to return. Ancestors A Novel At last, the union of such discordant spirits became utterly insupportable. Josephine Makers of History I wished them both dead, that I might be freed from the insupportable pains that tortured me, like so many burning knives. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors I agree with you in what you say about the dissipated life of our young men; but, perhaps, you will laugh, when I assert that this passion for hunting is equally insupportable to me. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. This was done; but the railway officials attached the carriage to the end of an express train; the oscillation and vibration were insupportable, and she reached Milton Hill almost unconscious from pain and fatigue. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind I don't know that that fact alone would make life insupportable. Ancestors A Novel Even a worm is free to go where his wishes lead him—even a worm is free to find an easy death and quick, when life becomes insupportable.” Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Ah, now she showed feeling; now she started and drew back, putting out her hands as if the idea he had advanced was insupportable to her. Hand and Ring You are insupportable—but take warning; remember, Sir, to whom you speak! The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. These are a species of all men the most insupportable. The Tatler, Volume 3 Or—thought insupportable!—had she secretly yielded to another what she had so long denied me, and——? Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories But when the third day was drawing to its weary close, and her longing 259 heart longed still unsatisfied, existence had become a burden almost insupportable to poor Mell. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 The Sevillanos know that, and come to Cadiz when the heats make residence in their own city insupportable. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) But the heat proving insupportable, they were driven once more to essay the river transit. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century At times her screams became insupportable, and for long periods she would utter shrieking horrors which necessitated her son's temporary residence with his cousin, Peleg Harris, in Presbyterian Lane near the new college building. The Shunned House The cruelty of his behaviour had been insupportable. Banked Fires Cicely had thought a great deal since her visit to London and Muriel's wedding, and had arrived at this conclusion—that she was suffocating, and that her life was insupportable. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons "Do not you mourn for him, then?" said Hugo, when the pause that followed Brian's speech had become insupportable to him. Under False Pretences A Novel Not to support life to its last limits, even at the cost of insupportable torments, were perhaps to kill. Death It is extraordinary how your mind can put away from it any thought that would make life insupportable. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Ray Meredith tried for the first few days to submit to his loss with fortitude, but the loneliness of the camp, after the experience of a sweet wife's companionship, was insupportable. Banked Fires He could not understand, he could not know—the doubt weighed on his brain like a sheet of lead; he felt inclined to tear his skull apart to relieve the insupportable pressure. Orientations The odor of these poverty-stricken wretches was insupportable to him. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day The glory we had reaped in our long struggle with France was forgotten in the consideration of the almost insupportable burdens which it necessarily entailed. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. You will be making acquaintance in that case with one of the most insupportable women that ever lived. Ellen Middleton—A Tale The evening the nurse arrived from Calcutta to take charge of the case, Meredith was improving in spite of the insupportable heat. Banked Fires But what sort of consent—a consent extorted by a series of oppression calculated to render their situation among us insupportable. Thoughts on African Colonization Your expences are extremely great, and the business above measure fatiguing; you have been long accustomed to children, and are fond of seeing them about you; and indeed otherwise the business would be insupportable. The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions But when he is a man below mediocre—a pedant—he is insupportable. Talkers With Illustrations It would seem like asking him to ask her again to marry him—an insupportable thought. Brooke's Daughter A Novel When he had finished, she said, with a sarcastic smile: "From the night you saw Fernanda in her splendid recherch� dress, this feeling of conscience must have been insupportable." The Grandee Without it, life would be insupportable; with it, life in any shape of seclusion, privation, banishment, contains all the blessings I covet upon earth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The heat of the day was almost insupportable. Maria Antoinette Makers of History The French found their position the more insupportable, the better it became.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 There are times when leading-strings are insupportable," Theo said; "at any time I don't know that I put much faith in them. A Country Gentleman and his Family The congregation was such as to make the heat almost insupportable. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 You are extremely cruel to a generous nature, which has a tenderness for you that renders your least dishumour insupportably afflicting. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Two months of this all but insupportable imprisonment passed away, when, early in October, she was brought from her dungeon below to the court-room above for her trial. Maria Antoinette Makers of History The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Ghosts, she had said: Geoff was no ghost, but he was insupportable; not to be seen with composure at that tremendous moment. A Country Gentleman and his Family The troubles with the hired labourers had become insupportable. Fathers and Children The solemn foppery, and the gross stupidity of the Scottish literati, are perfectly insupportable. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Matron and maiden alike welcomed as merciful the blow that liberated them from an existence now rendered insupportable. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 At the end of that time the famine became insupportable. Cyrus the Great Makers of History He had received just that discipline which makes solitude most pleasant to the old, and most insupportable to the young. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Is it not insupportable that a perishable worm, be he emperor or prince, should presume to apprehend God in heaven? Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The melancholy process of divorce, by which an insupportable yoke may be dissolved with the sanction of the law, is achieved in America with a facility and upon grounds inadmissible for that purpose in England. Records of Later Life For they declared that "the deprivation of the exercise of their religion was more insupportable to them than death itself." History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 When French tyranny becomes insupportable, we shall find our Cromwell. George Brown It is not uncommon to see the unfortunate insane endure exposure to heat and cold with seeming impunity; whereas it would induce almost insupportable suffering to the sane man. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The best of men have their vanities; the idea that the superior Mary Denbigh or the satirical Miss Bargarny might witness the offering’s arrival was insupportable. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 All his relations were insupportable to her, and she kept them at arm's length. Shirley All that had happened before in his life, and that had seemed so insupportable at the time, faded to insignificance. Wild Oranges It was to me an insupportable idea that you should go away without the means of living as becomes your rank and station.” A Manifest Destiny His burden became so heavy that it got to be insupportable. The Way to God and How to Find It In a pure atmosphere the highest temperatures are comfortable, but in a foul one they become insupportable. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction I am aware of that; but cousins, if they are stupid, are still more insupportable than strangers, because you cannot so easily keep them at a distance. Shirley It is very surprising," writes an officer of the Highlanders, "with what ease the gaiety of their tempers enables them to bear misfortunes which to us would be insupportable. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Would it not have made Mehetabel's position in the house only more insupportable? The Broom-Squire Second, because no one will say that the orders of América were obliged to remain in the charge of souls, with the insupportable burden of the visitations. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. I chewed some of it before them; it was insupportably bitter, but otherwise not injurious in its natural state. Adventures in the Philippine Islands She first shrugged her shoulders at him, and then she said a bitter word or two about his "insupportable tardiness." Shirley The loss of this plaything would be insupportable to them; but would their affliction prove that they loved the child for itself? Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The measured beat of the drum sustains the soldier in long marches which otherwise would be insupportable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The great heat of the climate renders even wooden floors quite insupportable. Due South or Cuba Past and Present At length the darkness and the solitude seemed to become insupportable to her; she started forward and opened the door, with the intention of fleeing from the room. A Noble Woman "It is insupportable," said the young man looking away, so that his countenance should not be seen. Marion Fay I am not surprised, that you find in yourself so many evils; evils which render you almost insupportable to yourself. Letters of Madam Guyon So long as the dew-point is low, high temperature does not matter, but when the dew-point begins to approach the normal temperature of the human body the atmosphere becomes insupportable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" I find the country insupportable myself, but you see, as the fates have preserved to us this rat-infested ruin, we must make the best of it. Angelot A Story of the First Empire One was aware of finding a certain nightmare insupportable, and of breaking from it as by main force, and then falling into a deep, sweet sleep. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse For weeks the burden of thought and remorse has been almost insupportable, and now you come to torture me further. The Law-Breakers But the oratory failed, and the gaiety fizzled out, and after a while Mrs. Graham, finding the silence and her thoughts insupportable, left them and went to bed. Changing Winds A Novel Zounds, sir; without offense, I must say you are as pig-headed in your generosity as that Flemish bear was insupportable with his everlasting dagger. A Romance of the West Indies But it is said that his shrieks sometimes resounded through the cathedral cloisters of Chichester till the horror of those who heard him was insupportable. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir Had he not so wound himself into every recess of her heart as to make life without seeing him insupportable? Is He Popenjoy? It’s relentless rays, freed from the wealth of shade in the valley below, beat down upon the parching land with a fiery intensity which must have been insupportable to unaccustomed human life. The Law-Breakers His longing for home had been intense; now that he had seen me, it became wellnigh insupportable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "Sir, I beg you to silence this insupportable babbler," said the chevalier to Chemerant, "you must see how painful this scene is to me." A Romance of the West Indies It had been connected in his dreams with Hardy's return, and, once awake, the knowledge that he was in the same house with him was insupportable. Audrey Craven He could bear her anger or her sullenness with fortitude, but her lachrymose caresses were insupportable. Is He Popenjoy? Your visit filled me with uneasiness, that, as the day wore away, reached intense anxiety, and finally arose to insupportable anguish and suspense. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend It is with heartfelt pleasure that I return this compliment, in this account of my winter journey, which, but for the constant and delicate kindness of her countrymen, would have proved wellnigh insupportable. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy So from day to day her apprehension mounted until it became well-nigh insupportable. The Heart of Thunder Mountain He could be insupportably dull and again express more in a single stanza, couplet or phrase than many have said in a whole book. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark It would probably bring the Indians back upon him, but the thought of allowing the troopers to be butchered was insupportable. The Mountain Divide I lost my self-control—a thing I do not often do—but your suggestions seemed to me insupportable. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue The heat and dust are then almost insupportable. Six Letters From the Colonies Now, remembering that experience, he spurred Trixy forward to take the aperture in the wall before the wind should suddenly become insupportable; and this time he was more fortunate. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Discontent stole into his domestic circle, and the idea of educating his two interesting boys in the desert became insupportable. The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio To the sky arose an odour almost insupportable, for it was new to us all. The O'Ruddy A Romance She wished he could have come, for her loneliness began to be insupportable. Whispering Smith Ablutions over, the indispensable siesta is enjoyed by everybody, on catres or in hammocks; for the heat of mid-day is insupportable, and repose after a bath is considered salutary. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba |
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