1 I listened to my father in silence and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply.
2 But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
3 Not seldom she would laugh anew, and louder than before, like a thing incapable and unintelligent of human sorrow.
4 But his character had been so much enfeebled by suffering, that even its lower energies were incapable of more than a temporary struggle.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER 5 For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
6 He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw.
7 The more I looked into the glowing coals, the more incapable I became of looking at Joe; the longer the silence lasted, the more unable I felt to speak.
8 In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it.
9 Mr. jorkins, notwithstanding his reputation in the firm, was an easy-going, incapable sort of man, whose reputation out of doors was not calculated to back it up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 10 Always accompanied with an incapable motion of the head, but with no change of face.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD 11 He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.
12 He had not slept the previous night, but was incapable of thinking of sleep either.
13 He felt incapable of being either.
14 This exasperated and tortured Golenishtchev, but Vronsky was incapable of deceiving and torturing himself, and even more incapable of exasperation.
15 He was breathless with emotion and incapable of going farther; he turned off the road into the forest and lay down in the shade of an aspen on the uncut grass.