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  • "The problem certainly seems insuperable," said Poirot thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • from horn and fiddle and drum but from a clock and calendar, must have seen himself as the old wornout cannon which realises that it can deliver just one more fierce shot and crumble to dust in its own furious blast and recoil, who looked about upon the scene which was still within his scope and compass and saw son gone, vanished, more insuperable to him now than if the son were dead since now (if the son still lived) his name would be different and those to call him by it strangers and whatever dragon's outcropping of Sutpen blood the son might sow on the body of whatever strange woman would therefore carry on the tradition, accomplish the hereditary evil and harm under another name an†   (source)
  • It is a chance that is just insuperable.†   (source)
  • Your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier.†   (source)
  • She liked to feel she was serving him across an insuperable distance.†   (source)
  • Yes, last night, in a matter of minutes, we cleared that insuperable isthmus.†   (source)
  • If I meet with no insuperable difficulties therefore, consider that point as settled.†   (source)
  • Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles?†   (source)
  • I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly.†   (source)
  • I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists.†   (source)
  • Mr. Welland's sensitive domesticity shrank from the discomforts of the slovenly southern hotel, and at immense expense, and in face of almost insuperable difficulties, Mrs. Welland was obliged, year after year, to improvise an establishment partly made up of discontented New York servants and partly drawn from the local African supply.†   (source)
  • The part of mother presented to her no insuperable difficulties and for twenty-five years she had kept house shrewdly for her husband.†   (source)
  • The truth was that Kells saw the insuperable barrier between them, and in the bitterness of his love he lied to himself, and hated himself for the lie.†   (source)
  • Once, when engaged in this system of training, and stooping to remove bits of stick, fern-stalks, and other such fragments from the child's path, that the journey might not be brought to an untimely end by some insuperable barrier a quarter of an inch high, she was alarmed by discovering that a man on horseback was almost close beside her, the soft natural carpet having muffled the horse's tread.†   (source)
  • This instant at which I speak to you shows me again exactly how, to my great misfortune, you just insuperably charm me.†   (source)
  • The fact that he had made her an offer, and she had refused him, had placed an insuperable barrier between her and him.†   (source)
  • He was learning the sheep-keeping business, so as to follow on at the flock when the other should die, but had got no further than the rudiments as yet—still finding an insuperable difficulty in distinguishing between doing a thing well enough and doing it too well.†   (source)
  • I have questioned him on the subject, and I confess I see no insuperable objection to his being a clergyman, as things go.†   (source)
  • The inconsistent little lady of the Avenue d'Iena had an insuperable need of changing her place, intellectually.†   (source)
  • Apart from this insuperable antipathy to her, Princess Mary was agitated just then because on the Rostovs' being announced, the old prince had shouted that he did not wish to see them, that Princess Mary might do so if she chose, but they were not to be admitted to him.†   (source)
  • In this manner, rocks, precipices and difficulties were surmounted in an incredibly short space, that at another time, and under other circumstances, would have been deemed almost insuperable.†   (source)
  • I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.†   (source)
  • I do not think that even he could now hope to succeed with one of her stamp, and therefore I hope we may find no insuperable difficulty.†   (source)
  • To the descend ant of a line of soldiers, commerce, even in that indirect manner, seemed a degrading pursuit; but an insuperable obstacle to the disclosure existed in the prejudices of his father We have already said that Major Effingham had served as a soldier with reputation.†   (source)
  • I came to the conclusion that difficulties, well-nigh insuperable, lay between me and the safe possession of the beautiful little vessel.†   (source)
  • I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia.†   (source)
  • If we measure our individual forces against hers, we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.†   (source)
  • Neglect it — go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling — and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.†   (source)
  • The difficulty, nevertheless, was but trivial; although, in the disorder of my fancy, it seemed at first insuperable.†   (source)
  • I throw out these queries for intelligent readers to answer, who know, at once, how credulous we are, and how sceptical, how soft and how obstinate, how firm for others and how diffident about ourselves: meanwhile, it is certain that our friend William Dobbin, who was personally of so complying a disposition that if his parents had pressed him much, it is probable he would have stepped down into the kitchen and married the cook, and who, to further his own interests, would have found the most insuperable difficulty in walking across the street, found himself as busy and eager in the conduct of George Osborne's affairs, as the most selfish tactician could be in the pursuit of his own.†   (source)
  • The last backwash of the movement from the west occurs: a backwash which serves to solve the apparently insuperable diplomatic difficulties and ends the military movement of that period of history.†   (source)
  • These waters witness the reproduction and growth of soft, delicate bath sponges whose prices run as high as ₣150 apiece: the yellow sponge from Syria, the horn sponge from Barbary, etc. But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea.†   (source)
  • But there would have been one, and an insuperable one, and I announced to the world that I held these estates, multiplied by the times and my industry, a hundredfold in value, only as his trustee.†   (source)
  • We must pass over a part of Mrs. Rebecca Crawley's biography with that lightness and delicacy which the world demands—the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.†   (source)
  • This would have been an insuperable bar to journalizing with most men; but Richard invented a kind of hieroglyphical character, which was intended to note all the ordinary occurrences of a day, such as how the wind blew, whether the sun shone, or whether it rained, the hours, etc.; and for the extraordinary, after giving certain elementary lectures on the subject, the sheriff was obliged to trust to the ingenuity of the major-domo.†   (source)
  • Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.†   (source)
  • Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things, had no terms wherein that language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable, to give my master any conception of what I meant.†   (source)
  • The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.†   (source)
  • So on he fares, and to the border comes
    Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
    Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,
    As with a rural mound, the champaign head
    Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides
    With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,
    Access denied; and overhead upgrew
    Insuperable height of loftiest shade,
    Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,
    A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend,
    Shade above shade, a woody theatre
    Of stateliest view.†   (source)
  • The servants of Don Vicente carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades, and so ended the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was the insuperable and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad story?†   (source)
  • A patriot in a State that does not import or export, discerns insuperable objections against the power of direct taxation.†   (source)
  • There would, in fact, be an insuperable difficulty in ascertaining when force could with propriety be employed.†   (source)
  • But there appear to be insuperable objections against the proposed recurrence to the people, as a provision in all cases for keeping the several departments of power within their constitutional limits.†   (source)
  • But it would, in fact, have afforded little or no additional security against the danger apprehended; and the want of it will never be considered, by an impartial and judicious examiner, as a serious, still less as an insuperable, objection to the plan.†   (source)
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