1 Also, I know that, to many men, it is an impossibility to swim against the stream.
2 I will observe, in parenthesis, that Heine says that a true autobiography is almost an impossibility, and that man is bound to lie about himself.
3 But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.
4 Prince Andrew did not reply, but his face expressed the impossibility of altering that decision.
5 He tried to prove to the Emperor the impossibility of levying fresh troops, spoke of the hardships already endured by the people, of the possibility of failure and so forth.
6 This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone thinking, feeling, and seeing things each from his own point of view.
7 The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
8 Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
9 The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident.
10 "Then I must trouble you to give him my card," Alexey Alexandrovitch said with dignity, seeing the impossibility of preserving his incognito.
11 At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God.
12 But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.
13 These discussed the political situation from every point of view, and all that troubled Jurgis was the impossibility of carrying off but a small part of the treasures they offered him.
14 Their common superior, so far from encouraging them to resist, advised a speedy surrender, urging in the plainest language, as a reason, the utter impossibility of his sending a single man to their rescue.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 15 They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled.