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She dismissed his dream as a whimsical impossibility not worthy of serious consideration. Why could they not be hermits? They had been hermits before, and it had been the happiest period of both their lives. Why, just because an old man had died and left them money, must they rule out the best thing in life as impossible and plunge into a nightmare which was not life at all?

Those impetuous spirits that break so easily through the bars of impossibility, will scarcely suffer their career to be stopped by any other restraint; and it may be reasonably feared, that arguments from justice, or law, or policy, will have little force upon these daring minds, who in the transports of their newly acquired victory, trample impossibility under their feet, and imagine that to those who have vanquished the ministry, every thing is practicable.

As she was crossing the lane she suddenly started back in utter dismay and consternation! Aunt Viney caught her wrist. "Where have you been?" she asked quickly. "In the house," stammered Cecily, with a frightened face. "You have not been in the garden with Dick?" continued Aunt Viney sharply yet with a hopeless sense of the impossibility of the suggestion. "No, I was not even going there.

The travellers computed the stretch of desert over which they had passed as being fully three hundred miles in extent, and they could therefore fully understand the difficulty not to say impossibility of approaching Ophir, at all events from a north-westerly direction.

But their Odysseys came home in the shape of letters, which, with their descriptions of strange countries and peoples and records of adventures often the realization of boyish dreams and also of difficulties overcome, were well calculated to appeal to Donald's childish imagination, and to increase his admiration for the writers and also his feeling of impotence, and of the impossibility of being able to follow in the tracks of such giants among men!

"I ask you to do so. Do not refuse me will you?" He tried to excuse himself. But she clung to him and kissed him, declaring that at least they might spend the week-end together before he left to face the worst. Her lover endeavored to point out the impossibility of their marriage, but she remained inexorable. "I still love you, Charlie even though you are in such dire straits.

No doubt if this had been the case, a perfect telescope could have been produced by properly shaping the object glass. But when Newton had demonstrated that light was by no means so simple as had been supposed, it became obvious that a satisfactory refracting telescope was an impossibility when only a single object lens was employed, however carefully that lens might have been wrought.

His better judgment was against suspending operations, but the proposition had been suggested by all sorts of complaints as to the impossibility of moving the trains and the like, so it needed little argument to convince him, and without further discussion he said, in that manner which with him meant a firmness of purpose that could not be changed by further complainings, "We will go on."

Thersites would have been at once pulled down and beaten; the host would not have rushed to the ships on his motion. Any feudal audience would know better than to endure such an impossibility; they would have asked, "How could Thersites speak without the sceptre?"

His physical structure uses and excretes energy so rapidly that he cannot store it up and go to sleep on his savings, and his harvests are usually so lean and disconnected that the exercise of thrift is equally an impossibility and a mockery.