Impossibility

Examples

• In the man's problem, the growing impossibility of early marriages is directly related to the business situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The organization was crude, the steam-engineering talent poor, and owing to the impossibility of getting any considerable capital subscribed, the plants were put in as cheaply as possible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The boilers were fired by wood, as the economical transportation of coal was a physical impossibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If Ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother it must surely be because she had recognised the impossibility of giving him up. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To effect a retreat would have been an impossibility. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It seems an impossibility! Jane Austen. Emma.
• And that others should approve, of what we approve, is no miracle or impossibility? Plato. The Republic.
• It is now so bulky that the impossibility of any one man's coming into possession of it all is obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The middle ages were times of improbability, not of impossibility, for but little was known of the geographical world. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is no impossibility in all this; that there is a difficulty, we acknowledge ourselves. Plato. The Republic.
• But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• How do we separate this impossibility from an improbability? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• 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.

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