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Example sentences for "would have been impossible"

  • It would have been impossible to find a braver or more experienced sailor.

  • It would have been impossible to make a more complete mistake.

  • Moreover, it would have been impossible in these societies, where a few false brethren had slipped in, for a dangerous secret, had there been one, to escape the vigilance of the police.

  • I do not know whether it is true that the Emperor used devices and stratagems in order to avoid compromising his dignity, but I do know that it would have been impossible to show more regard and attention to the venerable old man.

  • You believe that with the force of the mayor, it would have been impossible to have taken these men?

  • The men went out there in the morning, and they had been up all night, and they were tired, and it would have been impossible to keep the crowd back.

  • These thoughts flashed through my mind whilst busily employed in taking the necessary steps to return in search of him, for I had no idea of continuing the voyage without making such a search, indeed it would have been impossible.

  • It would have been impossible for me to send away more than a small part of those troops if I had not been able to replace them by Missouri militia.

  • The line was then taken to the steam capstan and the boat would be hauled out of a position from which it would have been impossible to release her by the engines and wheel alone.

  • Without the aid of the search-light it would have been impossible to have worked the steamer past the raft until daylight came.

  • And, in any event, it would have been impossible to prevent war.

  • Without such action it would have been impossible to stop the activity of the land thieves.

  • But for the setting of the scene itself, it would have been impossible.

  • Yet it would have been impossible to imagine anybody who appeared more incongruous to the business and the scene.

  • It would have been impossible to make any mistake.

  • It would have been impossible for Mr. Chester alive to keep away from his wife for four years--they were devoted to each other.

  • It would have been impossible for me to have preserved my gravity a minute longer, when I was happily relieved by a rap at the door, which I opened, and perceived my mistress coming out of the coach.

  • It would have been impossible to invent a process more gainful to British commerce, more harmful to American commerce.

  • It would have been impossible to find any man of the same type able to meet him before the people of Illinois.

  • If the Democratic party as a whole had in the autumn of the year 1861 taken the ground which a considerable section of it assumed, it would have been impossible to conduct the war for the Union successfully.

  • These antelopes were exceedingly wild, and without the aid of a camel it would have been impossible to approach them.

  • Had they arrived the evening before, it would have been impossible to provide them all with beds; and they would have been obliged, like the majority of their comrades, to sleep on straw in the schoolroom.

  • Had it not been for the gleam from the snow-covered ground, it would have been impossible to see ten paces, here.

  • Peel was aware that without this it would have been impossible, and as it is, he expects great opposition, and several resignations in the Cabinet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    keep quiet; salt water; would advise; would always; would ask; would carry; would consent; would continue; would deliver; would expect; would gladly; would happen; would haue; would have been glad; would have been hard; would have thee know; would here; would only; would probably; would sell; would start; would still; would suffer; would suffice; would take too long; would willingly