impracticable

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All Projects to procure an honest one, by Place Bills, &c., appear to me vain and Impracticable.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

Impracticable projects and counsels from Bordeaux poured in freely, but did not mend matters; and on the 24th General Bourbaki summoned the superior officers to a council of war.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

He even bade me on a time lead hence 760 The dog, that task believing above all Impracticable; yet from Ades him I dragg’d reluctant into light, by aid Of Hermes, and of Pallas azure-eyed.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Of skies, enwrapped in misty shrouds, Impracticable avenues!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Impracticable, im-prak′tik-a-bl, adj. not able to be done: unmanageable: stubborn.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various