...His first feeling was that of irritation,and he would have stayed the devouring element by the breath of hiscommand; but he soon paused, and yielded to impossibility...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...If it had been represented as occurring between agallant and his mistress it might pass; but between husband and wife thereis something of an impossibility about it...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
... Vain were the senator’s efforts to show him the impossibility of such a journey...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... Yet there was no talk of impossibility or peril in his mouth, any more than in ours: those were not what gave him pause...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
... Mary explained to him at length the impossibility of her knowing much about the local white aristocracy of Tooms County, and then told him all she had heard...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
... does it not follow that these institutions are so many shams? And if the entire social structure is built upon this absolute impossibility of property...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...It is next to an impossibility to make a successful set for mink and coon along the soft, slippery and sloping banks without the boat...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
...Afterhaving once or twice passed the instrument, it is surprising howvery readily this conjectured impossibility is performed...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
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