Having once summoned courage to begin proceedings against his friend, hehad not been able to remain impartial.
But it was a dark night; the lady wore a thick veil; he had not been able to distinguish her features, and all he could say was that she looked above medium height.
He had not been able to follow his granddaughter's rapid steps.
We revelled in milk, as wehad not been able to procure it since we left Cassala.
Florian, who was ill, had not been able to accompany me; although he had been shooting in this neighbourhood for two years he had never killed a giraffe.
The sergeant was standing just where I had left him; and to judge from the confounded look of his honest face, had not been able to comprehend what it all meant.
In reference to this last critical point, I was only half informed; by no fault of my own, however, as despite all my efforts I had not been able to bring the commerzienrath to a clear statement of his affairs.
He would show her that if he had not been able to mount her on her horse, at least it was not from lack of strength.
He had not been able to see her until she was well out on the stage and was making her bow.
He had had a glimpse of the pearl, but the price was great, and he had not been able to pay it all.
On some of Flinders' charts there are dotted lines to indicate coasts which he had not been able to explore fully.
In the evening I sent Mr. Scott to see if the cutter had returned, and upon his coming back he reported that she had just arrived, but that he had not been able to communicate with her.
Kangaroos had been seen in great numbers during the day, but wehad not been able to get a shot at one.
But he had not been able to resist the temptation of making a profound mystery of the matter and he prided himself upon the effective way in which he had executed his scheme.
She had spoken quickly and passionately and he had not been able to answer anything she said, for she did not pause, replying herself to the questions she asked and giving him no time to oppose her.
I saw that I had not been able to reap laurels in the role of Don Juan, so I began to take up the part of Tartuffe.
I had not been able to look her honestly in the face, she would have been amply justified in tearing the passport to pieces and flinging the fragments in my face.
We had not been able to take snapshots since about the middle of September; for, when the sun is near the horizon, though the light is apparently as brilliant as in summer, it seems to have no actinic power.
Shameful though it was that the wife should work to help to keep the family, he had not been able to exempt her from it.
Morten had in reality always envied him; he had not been able to bear his tremendous success.
Branded as a criminal, he must now begin at the beginning, and accomplish that which he had not been able to do in the days of his power.
He had not been able to accomplish his constant resolution to keep himself neat and clean, and this failure weighed upon him and abashed him.
These observations were the more useful, as we had not been able to get any for some time before, and they now served to assure us that no material error had crept into the time-keeper.
Even this meagre spree went against Hurley's feelings, for, being snow-blind, he had not been able to see the islands and positively would not believe that we were nearly home.
We had not been able to catch any fish for some days as the weather had been too rough, and, further, they appeared to leave the coasts during the very cold weather.
On previous occasions we had not been able to see so much of the coastline in this longitude owing to the compactness of the ice, and so we were able to definitely chart a longer tract at the western limit of Adelie Land.
Our force seldom much exceeded four hundred men, and even if we had found the multitudes he speaks of bound hand and foot, we had not been able to put so many to death.
As we had not been able to have any intercourse with the natives, we left some bells, looking-glasses, and other trifles for them on the ground, when we returned to our ships in the evening.
He therefore determined to await the arrival of that vessel at Gomera, believing that Pinzon might have secured a vessel for himself at Gran Canaria, if he had not been able to repair his own.
Käte had not been able to keep it to herself after all, it had weighed on her mind, she had to tell somebody what she had seen.
He hoped the restraint and the severe regulations in force in the army would regulate his whole life; what they, his parents, had not been able to effect with all their care, the drill would be able to do.
What the dust-carts, passing backwards and forwards during the day, had not been able to do, the night-dew had done.
He even made Platósha repeat the tale of how she had heard him shout, had taken fright, had leaped out of bed, had not been able at once to find either her own door or his, and so forth.
And on the following day he announced that he had not been able to sleep all night for rapture!
It seemed as though he had not been able to foresee that such a calamity would descend upon him, and was excitedly begging to be spared, to be saved.
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