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Sentences ending with incapable

You were cordially glad you were not caught out and incapable? [5]
The question demanded a survey of his actual position of which he was at the moment incapable. [9]

More example sentences with the word incapable in them

Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable--how do you who are familiar with it answer it? [5]
His regular features were still beautiful in their symmetry, and there was a touch of pathos in their mournful gentleness, so evidently incapable of any firm resolve, especially when a smile lent his mouth a bewitching charm. [10]
To him they were incapable of the real business of life, and were only meant to be housekeepers to men who make the world go round. [11]
And indeed he was incapable of renouncing any wish or a plan, even if he felt inclined to do so. [10]
He had often told her that she could read his soul like an open book, but she did not conceal from herself that there were certain sides of that complex structure whose meaning she was incapable of comprehending. [10]
Stephanus was startled to see that his companion trembled in every limb, he raised himself and held out to him the flask with Sirona's wine, which the other, incapable of controlling himself, snatched eagerly from his hand, and emptied with frantic thirst. [10]
I don't mean to say that you are incapable of kindly instincts. [9]
All the way to Boston she had sat gazing out of the window at the blinding whiteness of the fields, incapable of rousing herself to the necessity of thought, to a degree of feeling commensurate with the situation. [9]
Nothing was now to be done, but to procure the removal of Pollux from Alexandria, or to render him in some way incapable of damaging him, and this he might perhaps be able to do by the instrumentality of the wrathful Emperor. [10]
He had seen them, but appeared quite incapable of interest or curiosity. [12]
They cannot acquire the power of speech, and are wholly incapable of prolonged attention, but are much given to imitation. [1]
They have lost the power of distinguishing right from wrong; they commonly lack will-power, and so are incapable of changing their habits without external influence. [4]
I came to the church of the Recollets as I wandered; for now, for a little time, I seemed bewildered and incapable, lost in a maze of dreadful imaginings. [11]
I should feel that I was well employed in getting up a Primer for the pupils of the Asylum, and other young persons who are incapable of serious thought and connected expression. [6]
Let us be thankful that our flesh and blood are incapable of the fury of the guillotine. [9]
I should have supposed him incapable of any heedless word, any warm emotion, until I afterwards met him under his own roof and enjoyed the warm-hearted cheerfulness of the father of the family and the graciousness of the host. [10]
She was the sun that melted the frozen torrents and set them boiling; with that sun removed, they froze again, and the army and all France became what they had been before, mere dead corpses--that and nothing more; incapable of thought, hope, ambition, or motion. [5]
I could have staked my life that Mrs. Falchion was insensible to love or passion, and unimpeachable in the broad scheme of right and wrong; imperious in requiring homage, incapable of giving it. [11]
I fear I should be incapable of making such a testimony. [4]
But above all, she was cowed by the sudden change in Janet herself, by the attitude of steely determination eloquent of an animus persons of Lise's type are incapable of feeling, and which to them is therefore incomprehensible. [9]
The dark, bleak season of the year brought back the long evenings, which tried her severely: all the more so, because her weak eyesight rendered her incapable of following any occupation but knitting by candle-light. [14]
In spirit she saw the heavy man incapable of raising himself, dying perhaps where he had fallen. [10]
All that she saw during this last visit to London impressed her deeply--so much so as to render her incapable of the immediate expression of her feelings, or of reasoning upon her impressions while they were so vivid. [14]
She tried to rouse herself, to think, to consider a situation in which her instinct had whispered just once--there must be some hidden danger: but the electric touch of his hand destroyed the process, and made her incapable of reason. [9]
Have you any right to enjoy yourself at all until the fag-end of the day, when you are tired and incapable of enjoying yourself? [4]
We desire the restoration of the earlier condition of things; the cancellation of all this incapable Government's pernicious trades with Hungary; and then--release from the sorry burden of the Badeni ministry! [5]
The delicate, maidenly, reserved woman, who was utterly incapable of any loud or rude expression of feeling in ordinary life, would now have rushed to the walls, like Kanau Hasselaer of Haarlem, to fight the foe among the men. [10]
Had I, during recent years, as a result of a discovery that emotions arising from human relationships lead to discomfort and suffering, deliberately been forming a shell, until now I was incapable of natural feelings? [9]
They are practical philanthropists; and they glow with a generous and brotherly zeal that mere theorizers are incapable of feeling. [7]
The officer, incapable of uttering a word, gazed after her. [10]
Janet was incapable of speech--nor could she have brought herself to ask Lise whether or not the money had been earned at the Bagatelle, and remained miraculously unspent. [9]
He's absolutely incapable of posing, as you'll admit, and he stood right up and acknowledged that he'd been wrong in our argument. [9]
I am incapable of flights myself. [9]
He was incapable of falsehood; and his deed, which under a false light so easily assumed an aspect of villainy, had, in fact, been no more than an act of thoughtlessness such as he had himself often lent a hand in. [10]
He was incapable of considering how his actions might affect others or what the consequences of this or that action of his might be. [2]
She would be obedient, but she was incapable of duplicity, and therefore she had said as plainly as possible that whatever the trouble might be she would not be unjust to Philip. [4]
Anatole had no notion and was incapable of considering what might come of such love-making, as he never had any notion of the outcome of any of his actions. [2]
And yet that noble, honest countenance--those oblique, ingenuous eyes--that massive head, incapable of--of--anything; your hand; give me your hand, bright waif. [5]
And yet that noble, honest countenance--those oblique, ingenuous eyes--that massive head, incapable of--of anything; your hand; give me your hand, bright waif. [5]
Besides, the absolute neglect into which the Tractors soon declined is good evidence that they were incapable of affording any considerable and permanent relief in the complaints for the cure of which they were applied. [3]
If at that moment he had taken her up, and clasped her to his heart before the very eyes of Eupliorion and his mother she really would have been incapable of resisting him. [10]
Nay, another has met me, humble in birth but noble in spirit and in gifts--" Thus far, Pentaur, incapable of speech, had overheard the princess. [10]
Too many young men born to shine in social life, to sparkle, it may be, in conversation, perhaps in the lighter walks of literature, become agreeable idlers, self-indulgent, frivolous, incapable of large designs or sustained effort, lose every aspiration and forget every ideal. [6]
From their first meeting Els had seemed to her incapable of any careless error, and she had merely tried, by her bold, interference, to protect her from the gossip of evil tongues. [10]
And yet, how many of us have at this very moment a peau de chagrin of our own, diminishing with every costly wish indulged, and incapable, like the magical one of the story, of being arrested in its progress. [6]
What the mathematician knows being absolute, unconditional, incapable of suffering question, it should tend, in the nature of things, to breed a despotic way of thinking. [6]
And she liked Jack, and was not incapable of throwing him a rope when the hour came that he was likely to be swept away by that undertow. [4]
He would leave it wounded, incapable, or dead. [11]
Without the outside influences, neither of these impulses could ever have been born, since a person's brain is incapable or originating an idea within itself. [5]
If he is incapable of reform, he must stay there for his natural life. [4]
He might be incapable of analyzing this, but when he caught sight of the company he would be compelled to recognize it as the noise of our highest civilization. [4]
I believed him incapable of a great refusal. [9]
We were six in number, clogged with all that baggage, and I was courier for the party the most incapable one they ever employed. [5]
Eva felt painfully how incapable of rendering assistance the others considered her, and her pride forbade her to urge it upon them. [10]
During her walk hither Cynthia had been incapable of thought, but the epithets and arraignments and accusations, the sentences and paragraphs, wars printed now, upon her brain, never, she believed, to be effaced. [9]
Loving literature, in his way, he was characteristically incapable of recognizing the literary instinct, and the symptoms of its early stages he mistook for inherent frivolity, for lack of respect for the truth; in brief, for original sin. [9]
Yet he knew himself detached from them, inactive, incapable, because he could not see with the eyes of the body. [11]
Others made mistakes he seemed incapable of it. [5]
But I should have known from your face that you are incapable of deceit. [9]
Their immediate torment had so crushed them that, incapable of anticipating the future, they had ceased either to fear or to hope; but now they could rejoice in thinking of the start they had gained over their pursuers. [10]
If her manner had been merely one of indifference, it would in a way have been easier to bear; she was simply incapable of grasping the significance of the event, the meaning to me of the years of unceasing, ambitious effort it crowned. [9]
A joyful, unexpected frenzy, of which he had thought himself incapable, possessed him. [2]
Mrs. Holt, who filled it, had been literally incapable of speech. [9]
As he stood facing me, almost glaring at me through his eye-glasses, I beheld a slim, nervous, fault-finding doctrinaire, incapable of understanding the world as it was, lacking the force of his pioneer forefathers. [9]
If asked to explain his conduct, his shyness would not allow him to tell the truth, and lack of invention and practice would find him incapable of contriving a lie that would wash. We worked at the troublesome problem until three in the morning. [5]
Claudia was utterly exhausted and incapable of speech. [10]
But it was different in that he felt cold, frozen, mechanical incapable of free thought, and all about him seemed unreal, aloof, remote. [13]
She loved him devotedly and showed it in a hundred ways, but she was absolutely incapable of dissimulation. [9]
On my bad days I am incapable of commanding a thought or opening my lips. [10]
That beautiful, passionate creature is incapable of any underhand dealings. [10]
A Netherland army, composed principally of Walloons, under the command of the incapable Marquis Havre, the reckless de Heze and other nobles appeared before the capital, to prevent the worst. [10]
I'm incapable of committing a single original act, even though I might conceive one. [9]
Jane felt herself bound in a feeling that was neither listlessness nor indifference, yet which rendered her incapable of interest. [13]
They may possess attainments, they may boast varied knowledge of life and of the world; but if of the finer perceptions, of the more delicate phases of feeling, they be destitute and incapable, of what avail is the rest? [14]
She glanced again at the farmer, but his face was equally incapable, or equally unwilling, to express regret. [9]
I believe--nay, I am sure--that he is incapable of any mean action, that he could not be false in word or even in look, nor feign a sentiment be did not feel. [10]
He had merely acquired the faculty of appraisal, although this does not mean that he was incapable of falling in love. [9]
He found her a good deal excited; for, although she was incapable of any consecutive train of thought and, when her mind was required to exert itself, her ideas only came like lightning-flashes through her brain, she had observed that something unusual was going on. [10]

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