He has the speed and capacity for catching the wolf, but is unable to cope with him or detain him long enough for the hunter to arrive.
He might be supposed to spare her his conversation in her own interest, she looked so little able to cope with the exigencies of the talk he kept going.
She could put Boyne down sometimes, though not always, when he attempted to impose a novel code of manners or morals upon her, but she could not cope with Lottie.
The race for Edinburgh now began, Cope bringing his troops by sea from Aberdeen, and Charles doing what Mar, in 1715, had never ventured.
The manoeuvres of the clans forced Cope to change his front, but wherever he went, his men were more or less cooped up and confined to the defensive, with the park wall on their rear.
On September 20 Cope advanced from Haddington, while Charles, with all the carriages he could collect for ambulance duty, set forth from his camp at Duddingston Loch, under Arthur's Seat.
At Dalwhinnie, Cope found that the clans held the pass, which is very defensible.
Cope took the low road near the sea, while Charles took the high road, holding the ridge, till from Birsley brae he beheld Cope on the low level plain, between Seaton and Prestonpans.
We see Sir John Coperetiring at Falkirk, and the astonishing victory of Prestonpans, where disciplined British troops fled in dismay through the morning mist, leaving artillery and supplies behind them.
Sir Robert Tyrwhitt and his wife were also sent to question her, Tyrwhitt had a keen mind and one well trained to cope with any other's wit in this sort of cross-examination.
It was no mere fleet, therefore, which could cope with enemies like these on their own soil.
And Holy Church is without a head, and the cardinals cannot cope with the terrible scourge.
The cope head undercuts the shoulder, as shown at a, a, in Fig.
The pulley d is for driving the cope heads, one of whose cutters is seen at c.
To bring the outer edge of the shoulder in very close contact with the mortised timber, the cutters are for some work followed by what is termed a cope head, which is a head carrying two cutters bent forward as in Fig.
P P representing the line of the parting of the mould; so that, when the cope is lifted off, the loose hub A will rise with it, leaving the flange imbedded in the lower half of the mould.
Howard's energy and devotion were rewarded by lively sympathy, but the desire to improve which followed his exposures was short-lived, and powerless to cope with the persistent neglect of those intrusted with prison management.
Even Mr. Cope admitted that the committal of this class of prisoners to Newgate was most inconvenient.
Illustration: "The Bishop himself stood in cope and mitre to give the last absolution.
Priests from far and near had chanted the Office of the Dead; the Requiem Mass was over, and the venerable chief of the diocese, the Bishop himself, stood in cope and mitre, to give the last Absolution.
They cannot therefore carry, besides, an army large enough to cope with such a population as ours.
But he was unable to cope with Dolabella; and the latter surprised him and took him prisoner at Smyrna.
The people were too weak to cope with them; the soldiers were loath to do so; soon barricades were erected and fighting began.
While the government hurried the construction of the new ironclads to the utmost, little faith was felt that so fragile a vessel as the Monitor could cope with so powerful an engine of war as the Merrimac.
The particles continue, or may be caused to continue, in this condition for a considerable time, during which no microscope can cope with them.
Serrin modified his excellent lamp with the express view of enabling it to cope with alternating currents.
The quality of the problem and of our powers are, we believe, so related, that a mere expansion of the latter would enable them to cope with the former.
His vast resources enable him to cope with objections started by himself and others, so as to leave the final impression upon the reader's mind that, if they be not completely answered, they certainly are not fatal.
These troops, however, were not numerous enough to cope with the Germans, so two new armies were formed and pushed northward.
Then the Strassburg turned her attention to the Fearless, and left the Ariadne to cope with the Arethusa.
She insinuated that we were both candidates for the nursery and unfitted to cope with the problems of married life.
So I remained quiet for a few moments, as I came to the conclusion that nobody could copewith all this but a really beautiful, unabashed liar!
We fought to the last finish, until our cook-mangled bodies gave out in sheer inability to cope with the enigma.
I am not at all sure that I can cope with an immense crowd.
I believe, Archie Fairfax, that I am quite able to cope with these matters.
Cope had come with no desire to extend his stay beyond the limits of an evening call.
He spoke in a firm, net, withholding tone, looking Copefull in the face, meanwhile.
Things became clearer still when Carolyn passed on the scanty message which Cope had added at the end.
When they heard how Bertram Cope had saved the lives of defenseless women in a lonely land, they inclined to smile.
Cope forgot Randolph, and Lemoyne, and his themes.
Two of them had been present on another shore when Cope had "saved" Amy Leffingwell from a watery death, and they knew how far heroics might be pushed by women who were willing to idealize.
The story was really under way now, and Cope went on with more confidence and with greater animation.
She let Carolyn Thorpe loose for a week's spring vacation, and sent Cope word that she was alone in a darkened, depopulated home.
She saw herself handing out the sketch to Cope in person, with an air of high bravado; she might say, if bad came to worse, that she had found some professional interest in his color or in his "planes.
Cope took up the paper-cutter again and looked out across the room.
Randolph was now installed in his new apartment and felt that, though not fully settled, he might risk asking Cope to dinner.
It was obviously due to his inability adequately to cope with modern conditions that his daughters were forced to toil, but this was the nearest she ever came to reproaching him.
She discovered a keen relish for this kind of humour, but it was new to her experience, and she could not cope with it.
Could it not be explained by supposing that the ruling class of ancient Japan, though destitute of book education, yet was endowed with natural abilities, which were more than enough to cope with the literary culture of that time?
I witnessed acts of courage at the early part of the war, before the Burmahs found out how impossible it was to cope with our superior arms, which were most surprising, and which excited our admiration.
In the meantime a despatch had been sent to Sir A Campbell, who was in advance on the banks of the river; stating that the force afloat was not able to cope with the fortress, the real strength of which no one had been aware of.
To cope with the new agricultural methods and outlook, farmers increasingly chose to relinquish some of their independence and band together to solve their problems.
He worked for himself, planning the day's activities, relying on his own judgment and initiative to cope with the varying responsibilities he shouldered.
But four can hardly copewith twenty; therefore, ground your arms, my lads, and give them up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
