We learned, moreover, that as horses were absolutely unobtainableat any price, the prisoners themselves would have to drag it in.
While butter or margarine were unobtainable at the canteen we were able to purchase a substance which resembled honey in appearance, colour, and taste.
Leasehold investments are very unsatisfactory, because the object bought automatically reverts to the landlord, and small freehold properties are as a rule unobtainable under the present system of land-holding.
Franck brushed the objections aside; the boy should have care and understanding, not to forget an education unobtainable in a village.
Johann Sebastian Bach died while Haydn was still a youth, his work had gone out of fashion and was unobtainable in Vienna for years to come.
Boots were, and no doubt still are, almost unobtainable luxuries, for those who try to make both ends of an allocation meet.
There was a moment when it seemed that ones inmost thoughts had to have that unobtainable visa--to obtain which, more fruitless hours must be lived on grimy stairways between perspiring layers of fellow-aliens.
The model is unobtainable in France, and I had been told--with few and vague indications--that I might find the cushions in a certain convent of the city.
Max had come out, and, fearful that the presence of the tall stranger portended some new move on the Frenchman's part, Sowerby had followed, hoping to glean something by persistency when clues were unobtainable by other means.
He formed the opinion that wealth was unobtainable by dint of hard work; and indeed in a man of his limited intellectual attainments, this was no more than true.
New suits of clothes were unobtainable at any price, for there was no cloth.
Even where such practical instruction is unobtainable it is possible to acquire a quite considerable knowledge of the craft by a diligent study of practical text-books and the scrutinous handling of volumes bound in all ages.
By this means it is possible to realise a minuteness and accuracy unobtainable in wider fields.
Kerosene is unobtainable for civilian use; the price of candles is prohibitive.
The Turkish bath, as I said, was unobtainable We walked through most of the streets of that town looking for it.
