Fear of being rushed at night made sleep well-nigh impossible, tired as we were.
Where the stones are still in place they have been worn to such glasslike smoothness by the thousands of passing mules that it is well-nigh impossible to walk upon them.
A Chinaman would drive an impatient man to apoplexy and an early grave for it is well-nigh impossible to get him started within an hour of the appointed time, and with a half dozen the difficulty is multiplied as many times.
They are trained only to follow a leader, and if one happens to be behind another horse it is well-nigh impossible to persuade it to pass.
If the march is long and we stop for tiffin it is well-nigh impossible to get them started within three hours without the aid of threats.
A general offensive in the Trentino had been tested and found well-nigh impossible.
This had never been accomplished before, and had seemed a well-nigh impossible task.
But it is well-nigh impossible to think of rueful Yarrow flowing through her dens to any other measure than that which keeps repeating 'By strength of sorrow The unconquerable strength of love.
It is also the opinion of this authority, that it is well-nigh impossible 'to arrange the traditional melodies without hearing them sung to the words of the ballad, the words and the air being so interwoven.
Once extinguished, it is well-nigh impossible to kindle it again.
The label of it, though, once affixed, would be well-nigh impossible of removal.
Well, Drummond, we have accomplished what seemed to me, in spite of your confidence, well-nigh impossible.
Sometimes, however, it is well-nigh impossible thus to incorporate needed exposition with the dramatic action.
Monologue, acceptable perhaps to a reader, becomes well-nigh impossible on the stage.
But even with all the devices of the past, it is well-nigh impossible in a one-act play or in an act of one setting to create the feeling that much time has passed.
We killed only one goral and a roebuck during the first two days, for a violent gale made hunting well-nigh impossible.
It is well-nigh impossible to touch business in Mongolia at any point without coming in contact with the Chinese.
If they are in the brush it is well-nigh impossible to see them at all.
The face soon becomes bloated and black, so that identification is well-nigh impossible.
As a rule, the changes in the face and countenance two weeks after death are such that it is well-nigh impossible to establish identity from the features alone.
This mutual dislike, helped by the utterly different modes of life existing amongst Europeans and Asiatics, renders all other than business intercourse not only irksome but well-nigh impossible.
The eager gamblers, who are generally all Chinese, bend forward with straining eyes to within a few inches of the croupier's stick, so that any cheating would be well-nigh impossible.
From what you say, it seems well-nigh impossible for us to get through the passes ahead of us, without being captured.
I tried to do as he would have me; but one can readily understand that at such a time it would be well-nigh impossible to think of anything save that which was being done within sight of all the garrison.
More than the rear-guard would have beat a retreat at that moment, but for the fact that the baggage-wagons hemmed us in so that flight was well-nigh impossible.
It would be well-nigh impossible to set down all the wild pictures we saw during the hour which followed.
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