1 It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 2 In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days.
3 I've never met the man yet who was capable of intimacy with a woman, giving himself up to her.
4 Yet Daniele was still a man capable of a man's free allegiance.
5 'Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe,' said Connie.
6 Her heart was sore and angry, and she was capable only of angry consolations.
7 The place deserves it, and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is capable of.
8 But it is capable of much more.
9 But a parish has wants and claims which can be known only by a clergyman constantly resident, and which no proxy can be capable of satisfying to the same extent.
10 You cannot suppose me capable of trying to persuade you to marry against your inclinations.
11 I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
12 That a girl so capable of being made everything good should be left in such hands, distressed her more and more.
13 But he was young, and did not know what strong minds are capable of, under trying circumstances.
14 I have considered, ever since I have been capable of serious reflection.
15 She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.