Impossibilities
[im'pɔsəblz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Impossibility
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- It is impossible, it is one of the impossibilities of life, for me to take my clothes off now and jump in. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And if you ask me to give you, what you never gave me, my gratitude and duty cannot do impossibilities. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This last was, by-the-bye, a very foolish idea, but a nervous woman will often fancy impossibilities, and that was my case. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Who would have thought, then, of my ever teaching people to dance, of all other possibilities and impossibilities! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Go away, sir, and don't ask impossibilities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Don't fret about impossibilities. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Rebekah