impracticable

Example Sentences

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If you intend these Hospitals for the Imployment of such as have Families of their own to maintain, the business will be confused and Impracticable.

From Proposals for Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth by Haines, Richard

Of skies, enwrapped in misty shrouds, Impracticable avenues!

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

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

"But why," asks the Impracticable, "does not Society stamp it out at once?"

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

"Impracticable?" said Rachel, taking up the long word.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary