I was like a man forced to walk through dense darkness among precipices, quite unable to guess when my journey would end in space, but enduring all the agonies of death at every step.
What this spell may have been I am quite unable to explain, but I presume that in a dim and unknown way she connected this effigy with her own lost infant and that while she held and tended it her intellect remained in abeyance.
She was, however, quite unable to say a word in behalf of her future daughter-in-law.
My marriage has been very happy, God knows; but I have always been a poor man, and feel it now when I am quite unable to help you.
The parting at Richmond was very painful, and Lady Fawn had declared herself quite unable to make another journey up to London with the ungrateful runagate.
Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.
That he has a mind, no man doubts; what his mind is, he may bequite unable to say.
An eclipse, calculated by methods which he is quite unable to follow, may occur at the appointed hour and confirm his respect for the astronomer.
Certainly we may often try to discover any possible means of verification, and be quite unable, for a time at least, to discover any.
What this sense is, I am quite unable to define; but I hope I may be able to make my meaning sufficiently clear, by giving instances of things which are undoubtedly "parts" of other things in the sense in question.
Of others I suspect that they may have some force, though I am quite unable to see that they have any.
For one moment they looked at each other silently, not quite sure how to proceed, and then the humour of the situation became too much for Paddy, and she burst out laughing, he immediately following suit, quite unable to help himself.
Another anxious half-hour passed, during the whole of which Mrs Blake paced the drawing-room, quite unable to sit still a moment.
Far into the night they wept silently, quite unable to comfort each other.
This is no deprivation to it however, for the rivers in which it lives are always so thick with mud that even if it had properly developed eyes it would be quite unable to use them.
As to the signature of the letter, Dolly was a man who would naturally be quite unable to say what he had and what he had not signed.
She sat silent, quite unable to look him in the face, while he kept his place in his arm-chair, lounging back, with his eyes intent on her countenance.
After some sudden emotion or fright or accident a neurotic person proves to be quite unable to talk.
A little girl bitten by a dog and much shocked may, for some time afterwards, be quite unable to stand when she sees a dog on the street, so disturbing is the tremor that comes over her.
For several minutes I could not get them to tell me what was the cause of their trouble; at last one of them trembling, with the most abject fear and quite unable to speak, pointed to the door of the hut.
I am quite unable to distinguish anything in my sense of right and wrong which I cannot easily conceive to have been brought about during the evolution of my intelligence from lower forms of psychical life.
Two men may agree perfectly that it is right to "do good," and be quite unable to agree just what good it is right to do now, or with whom one should make a beginning.
Our study of the will of the individual prepares us for the recognition of the fact that communities may be but dimly aware of their own character, and may be quite unable to give an unbiased account of the ideals which animate them.
But I do not know how opinion is going in America, and I amquite unable to estimate the power of these new ideas I set down, relative to the blind forces of instinct and tradition that move the mass of mankind.
But eagerly as I would grasp at any evidence that this idea is being developed and taken up by the general consciousness, I amquite unable to persuade myself that anything of the sort is going on.
For many weeks I have been wholly shut up in my own room, getting with exceeding difficulty from the bed to the fireside, quite unable to stir either in the chair or in the bed, but much less miserable up than when in bed.
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