Scarcely a year elapsed before his lectures had fairly driven away an audience incapable of comprehending their emphatic jargon.
The ignorant and incapable fool who rushed Madly upon a work beyond his wits; Nor doubt they but the simplest of themselves Could bring the matter to triumphant issue.
For a moment he remained where he was, incapableof movement, while his cigarette, bent in two and torn, fell unheeded in the grate.
By the very nature of things she was incapable of realising the tremendous strain to which she had subjected him; it only seemed to her that there was a new and wonderful secret to share with him.
For Vane had passed beyond the thinking stage; he was incapable of arguing things out or calling a halt even if he wanted to.
Manuel is one of those characters he loved to draw--a perfect Christian gentleman, incapable of baseness in word or deed.
In May, 1622, "by reason of sickness and indisposition of body wherewith it had pleased God to visit him, he had become incapable of fulfilling the duties and was compelled to resign.
At last, being incapable of bearing further anguish, they said that the charge was true!
The Island of Cuba is now totally inert and totally incapable of any governing faculties, not only because of the dead, but by making the rich poor, by making the poor indigent, and the indigent dying.
The fact is apparent to those who know existing conditions in Cuba that the people of the Island are just now in such an impoverished condition that the agricultural interests are simply incapable of paying taxes.
Happily the time is past when schoolmasters and schoolmistresses were incapable of understanding their charges, and confounded nervous exhaustion with stupidity or timidity with incapacity.
So, too, there are people who can bolt their food with the best of us, who yet declare themselves incapable of swallowing a pill.
Or, again, a little pharyngeal irritation which would ordinarily be incapableof disturbing sleep may be sufficient to keep the child wide awake all night with persistent and violent coughing.
Physiological stimuli, incapable of producing any visible reaction in healthy children, habitually determine widely spread and persistent inflammatory reactions.
No one who is incapable of profiting by this natural disposition of the child can be successful in her management of him.
He rapidly grows incapable of supporting life without this excessive stimulation.
He was a vigorous and muscular youth, more than a little suspected of being a bully; but he appeared to be quite incapable of protecting his own property.
He is quite incapable of concentrating his thoughts on anything for more than five minutes without constant ginger from me.
Though incapable of flying, they run with such swiftness, that our fleetest greyhounds are left far behind in every attempt to catch them.
Their speed is very great, though not in general quite equal to that of a greyhound; but when the greyhounds are so fortunate as to seize them, they are incapable of retaining their hold, from the amazing struggles of the animal.
Between the desire and the execution lies the incapable organ which only wearily, and after long labour, imperfectly accomplishes what is required of it.
I seemed to have supernatural strength, and to be incapable of any weariness or disagreeable sensation whatever.
When men who are not expecting danger are suddenly surprised, there is a moment when they are incapable of action, and may be at the mercy of a bold adversary.
The engine was in a bad state, and really incapable of much further service.
He said he was incapable of doing anything more to help himself, and only regretted that his death could not in some way be instrumental in saving us, his comrades.
The obvious inference is, that in proportion as the brain is feeble it is incapable of the effort of origination; therefore, savages are the slaves of routine.
For the Kurts areincapable of assimilating civilization.
Furthermore, there is an obvious intention to show that the monarchy, being founded upon a lie, is incapable of any real adaptation to the age, and reconciliation with modern progress.
Armand stood a moment incapable of thought or movement.
That his mother was quite incapable of clearing up the mess which he and she had made together was not likely to trouble him either, indeed he fell asleep too soon to realise this deficiency.
The smoke, the fume, the fret of his demeanour was inexpressible, but it was a fury incapable of producing a deed.
She is not at all interfering, and incapable of gossip.
He would infallibly have suffered for the offence, had it not been accidentally discovered that the officer who had lost them was drunk and incapable on the night in question, and had himself dropped them from his pocket.
He seems to have been incapable of intrigue and the supple arts of the court.
And for years New York is to be reminded of Samuel Coulter by some incapable who'll use his name and his money to advertise nature's contempt for family pride in her distributions of brains.
Why should one play the fool simply because those about one are incapable of playing any other part?
Indeed, I believe he is quite incapable of conversing about anything except the rise and fall of Indian stock, or the fluctuations in the value of indigo.
Let him produce the lady; and if he does produce her, I give him leave to say that Thomas Henry Proul is incapable of his business; or, putting it in vulgar English, that T.
The young men of the present day appear to me generally so incapable of a sincere friendship.
I was a fool to think that I could ever be anything to her, even a friend," he said to himself bitterly; "women areincapable of friendship.
The man in the pearl buttons raised his head to answer for the two pugilists, who by this time were totally incapable of answering for themselves.
The Elder stared at her slowly, incapable of speech; stared and pulled out a bandanna handkerchief and slowly wiped the back of his neck.
This drove the girl away, incapable of supporting such profanation and blasphemy.
As for Hester, she was so dazzled by this visit, her head and her heart so beating and throbbing, that she was incapable of putting up with the conversation which always made her wicked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incapable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
