insupportable

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Insupportable creature! tell a lady of her faults! if he is so grave, I fear I have no chance of captivating him.

From The Contrast by Tyler, Royall

Four Insupportable Things   Under three things the earth quakes,   And under four it cannot stand.

From The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Dillon, Emile Joseph

"Insupportable old bore!" muttered Maitland, as he waved his hand from the window, and smiled his blandest salutations to the retreating party.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

Insupportable were the long stoppages at the stations; the carriage was never ready to start under two hours; it took eleven weary days and nights of shaking and bruising to get from Cleves to Berlin.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

I felt the sharp excess Of joy like the strong sun at noon— Insupportable bliss!

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John