Did he not owe every last hour he had to give to the people among whom he had planned to spend the best energies of life, and from whom his own act was about to part him in this lame, impotent fashion.
All great changes are preceded by numbers of sporadic, and as the bystander thinks, impotent efforts.
It is difficult to imagine that the favored and devoted artist of the mighty conqueror would choose to portray his great master in a painful and impotent struggle with disease and death.
Would I fain in my impotent yearning do all for this man, {270} And dare doubt he alone shall not help him, who yet alone can?
Is Congress so impotentin its own "exclusive jurisdiction" that it cannot "otherwise by law provide?
Is Congress so impotent that it cannot exercise that right pronounced both by municipal and national law, the most sacred and universal--the right of self-preservation and defence?
Is Congress so impotentin its own "exclusive jurisdiction" that it cannot "otherwise by law provide?
Recalling his remaining automatons, Roger sent out a shielding screen, against which the defenders of their planet raged in impotent fury.
But the pirate commander had known accurately the strength of the liner, and knew that her armament was impotent against the forces at his command.
But Roger's fiercest blasts and heaviest projectiles were equally impotent against the force-shields of the super-ship.
But the submarine was entirely non-ferrous, and its officers were apparently quite familiar with the Nevian beams which licked at and clung to the green walls in impotent fury.
The Nevians' destructive rays glanced harmlessly from their shields, and the Nevians' elaborate screens, neutralized at impact by those of the torpedoes, were impotent to impede their progress.
Then in that tube of vacuum was waged a spectacular duel of ultra-weapons--weapons impotent in air, but deadly in empty space.
The occurrence naturally caused him to cast back his thoughts to that other trick-the locking him into the cloisters, in which Jenkins had been a fellow-victim--and he doubled his fists in impotent anger.
Old Ketch gave a yell ofimpotent rage, and Bywater decamped, as fast as his legs would carry him, through the west door.
There is, perhaps, no passion of the human heart more dire, more terrible than impotent revenge, or more uncontrollable in its effect upon the human countenance.
He raised his voice against the men in the woods in impotent fury.
Some wept in impotent grief, some cursed with flashing eyes and knotted fists, some on their knees held up appealing hands to Baal; but neither prayer, tears, nor curses could undo the past nor mend the present.
Again came that paralysis of volition which held my crooked forefinger impotent upon the trigger.
Impotent indeed he believed the new religion would be if it reckoned not with this Power, if it tossed it aside as worthless.
She would reply to him, she would shame him for his cowardice, she would--What she did do was to throw herself face downward on the ground, shedding tears of exasperation and impotent rage.
He who had always translated religion into helpfulness, had he, then, after all, lowered his colors and aligned himself with the good but impotent dreamers of the earth?
The simple execution of constitutional laws," said Bazire, "made for peaceable times, would be impotent among the conspiracies that surround you.
Send his self-impotent ambition aid, And crown the conquest of her fiercest foes?
That image, like the image of the man-hero, is dead and impotent excepting as the man's own imagination makes it living and potential.
She partly followed them and then stood watching with a sort of impotent sullenness as they went up-stairs, the inspector leading the way.
It is as powerless to save you from that flood of doubt as the African's fetich of wood is impotent to save him from the deluge of water that bursts upon and overflows the world about him.
In that, too, a lack of comprehension, an impotent anger at a visitation not understood, a punishment apparently unmerited.
Three or four policemen fought their way to the spot, striving to clear the tracks, bewildered and impotent in the face of the alien horde momentarily growing more and more conscious of power.
And the more she confessed, the more she apparently yielded, the more impotent he seemed, the tighter the demon gripped him.
There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account.
Here and there are a few impotent and almost infantine attempts at reparation, undertaken in the ancient epochs of history by the Greeks and Romans.
Call to mind That glory's voice is impotent to pierce The silence of the tomb!
Starting from the Bed, He paced the chamber with disordered steps, howled with impotent fury, dashed himself violently against the walls, and indulged all the transports of rage and madness.
He continued to rave and torment himself with impotent passion till his constitution, enfeebled by grief and illness, could support itself no longer, and He relapsed into insensibility.
Yet though She no longer felt their insults, the Rioters still exercised their impotent rage upon her lifeless body.
The most impotent potentates, the most insignificant powers, generally assumed the highest and most lofty titles.
If this be true, said he, how impotentin this respect is the power of the Government!
We should plead the constitution, and tell you that the law was impotent and void.
One of the most impotent sovereigns in Europe has assumed a title as high as human invention can devise; for example, what words can imply a greater magnitude of power and strength than that of High Mightiness?
I gave vent to myimpotent anger in blasphemous expressions that were afterwards to be used against me.
As the wharf faded away into the mist that hung over the waters I thought I saw shapes of men and horses rushing frantically to the edge, and a massive figure waving its arms like a madman, and shouting impotent curses into the air.
And she spat out more curses, and shook her fist in impotent but verbose rage.
I watched my needle, impotent as it flew up and down, and when by chance I made a straight seam I brought it to so sudden a stop that the thread raveled back before my weary eyes.
Thus she sets her dogged resistance in scowling black looks, in quick, frantic gestures and motions against the machinery that claims her impotent childhood.
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