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Example sentences for "quite impossible"

  • Quite impossible, quite impossible," said the doctor, still cherishing his grievance, and valiantly rejecting the root of all evil.

  • But this makes it quite impossible to apply the doctrine to any functional theory of the value of money, or to bring money in any realistic way into the scheme.

  • It is easy to draw legal distinctions in all these cases, but to show that definite and uniform economic consequences flow from these legal distinctions is quite impossible.

  • It is quite impossible to make anything of importance of it from the side of individual disutilities.

  • Quite impossible, we should say, who know her well.

  • But as it is quite impossible that he and I should ever be anything else to each other, he should not be asked to come here with any other intention.

  • Oh, no; it's quite impossible, uncle, any one could ever suspect you of such a thing.

  • Of course, as you will understand, it is quite impossible to mention your inquiry to Mr. Cabot.

  • Then, when these are before them, they infer that the matter is quite impossible--and whether one or more different eventualities have missed of consideration, is not studied at all.

  • Only when that is quite impossible may we assume misunderstandings and seek them out.

  • The mouth must be kept closed so that there shall be no intrusion of sound through the Eustachian tube.

  • The fact that this reproduction is not direct but depends on the sequence of images, leads to the garrulity of children, old men, and uneducated people, who try to present the whole complex of relations belonging to any given image.

  • The day spent in the parsonage contained nothing remarkable, so that all these years I have not even thought of it.

  • Suppose that we have before us a case in which the name awakens more quickly and reliably the idea of the person to whom it belongs than conversely.

  • More so than they have a right to, inasmuch as they present little difficulty to anybody who is accustomed to them and to whom they occur almost spontaneously.

  • But it is impossible, I tell you, quite impossible!

  • Should the coast fortifications fail to do what is expected from them, success is quite impossible.

  • It seems, however, quite impossible to carry out this sort of training on so comprehensive a scale that it will by itself be sufficient to educate serviceable commanders for the great war.

  • It is quite impossible wholly to differentiate a bird's voice from its habits and surroundings.

  • I tried faithfully to get good work out of the commission, and found it quite impossible; for a many-headed commission is an extremely poor executive instrument.

  • It is quite impossible now to conjecture with certainty what that state of feeling and the general political circumstances at home and abroad may be at that time.

  • If each Division, Brigade, and Battalion has not got within itself what it requires for its daily existence in the field, a movement will be quite impossible.

  • It is quite impossible to regard this Levi of the Book of Genesis as a mere shadow of the caste which towards the end of the monarchy arose out of the separate priestly families of Judah.

  • It would be quite impossible to eat fried potatoes directly they are taken out of the fat, as they would burn the mouth terribly.

  • It is quite impossible to lay down any exact law in regard to boiling potatoes.

  • It would be quite impossible to make any of these puddings without eggs, and when eggs are used we may take for granted that butter is allowed also.

  • The sun had already set, and twilight had come on; but it would be quite impossible for Mr. and Mrs. Cardew to arrive at the Manor until about ten o'clock.

  • My brother and I have been talking it over, and we cannot do an injustice to one of the ladies at Aylmer House--it is quite impossible.

  • It is quite impossible now to foresee the end of all this, but the elements are abroad of as fine disturbances as the most restless can desire.

  • This seems to be quite impossible in the present state of affairs, but a few days will probably produce some decisive change.

  • Carmen also raised her head; but when she saw who it was, she immediately hid her face again, for she felt it quite impossible to speak to him now.

  • I cannot do it--no, it is quite impossible!

  • I must inherit my dear mother's aversion to Brother Jonathan, for I have felt it as long as I can remember, and it would be quite impossible to give myself to him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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