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Sentences starting with unable

Unable to speak, unable to stand, Jane dropped on her knees. [13]
Unable as yet to grasp the full extent of her calamity, she rode on by his side, until she was aware at last that they had reached the door of the house at Highlawns. [9]
Unable to bear the situation without some demonstration, she got to her feet and caught up the glass of brandy and milk with a little exclamation. [11]
Unable to confess the need that drove her, she arrived in Eda's little bedroom to be taken into Eda's arms. [9]
Unable to control the muscles of her face, shoulders and hands, she went into the middle of the room, beckoned the men to come close to her, raised her fan to her face, and whispered: "Don Fabrizio and I are now one. [10]
Unable to sit still he paced up and down the room holding the letter and reading it. [2]
Unable to awe Sally Drover's spirit, she would grow piteous. [9]
Unable to contain myself more, I flung my drum overboard and went after it, and amid shouts and laughter I was towed across by James Ray. [9]
Unable to control herself longer, she cried out in the husky voice whose hoarse tone was increased by her intense agitation: "I see it in your face, Doctor; I must be prepared for the worst. [10]
Unable to seek consolation in prayer, as usual, she had given herself up to dull despair, but only for a short time. [10]

Sentences containing unable two or more times

He feels that however impossible it may be, it is so, for without this conception of freedom not only would he be unable to understand life, but he would be unable to live for a single moment. [2]

More example sentences with the word unable in them

It is where you say: "The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security. [7]
Sonya, darling, he writes... Sonya..." Sonya stared open-eyed at Natasha, unable to believe her ears. [2]
Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
His method was withering sarcasm, and he was clearly unable to control his animus.... No champion appeared to support Krebs, who sat pale and tense while this denunciation of him was going on. [9]
The devoted wife with great pain and risk came the whole journey to Honolulu, and pleaded until the authorities were unable to resist her entreaty that she might go and live like a leper with her leper husband. [5]
She seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. [2]
She seemed to wish to speak, to be unable to. [9]
I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
One of them, who had been unable to make the least impression on her heart, resolved to win her by a stratagem. [4]
The great majority who are unable to survive the test pay the price. [9]
But before the whip could reply, the hare, scenting the frost coming next morning, was unable to rest and leaped up. [2]
We were unable, when we reached the residence of old man Tatem, to imagine how the local superstition of his wealth arose. [4]
There were times when I went to bed and, unable to sleep, I would get up at two o'clock or three o'clock in the morning and write till breakfast time. [11]
We cannot represent, what we are unable to feel. [10]
He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
Their unpractised powers were unable to follow the course of his thoughts. [10]
As the years went on he was still unable to pay off the mortgage; and sometimes, indeed, he could not even meet the interest, in spite of the princely sum he received from Mr. Willard of the Guardian. [9]
He behaved very well in the regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. [2]
In the same way and with similar looks, these two glanced vainly at the onlookers with only a silent appeal for protection in their eyes, evidently unable to understand or believe what was going to happen to them. [2]
At lunch she was unable to talk; to sustain, at least, a conversation. [9]
That the age, was unable to separate him from itself, and see his great stature, is probable; that it enjoyed him with a sympathy to which we are strangers there is no doubt. [4]
For now he was unable to separate her, to eliminate the emotion--he was forced to acknowledge--the thought of her aroused, from the problems themselves. [9]
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate. [2]
As the bird was unable to crack them, he placed them one by one in his water-glass, evidently with the notion that they would in time become softer--an interesting proof of intelligence on the part of these birds. [1]
By whom he was so induced to believe I am as yet unable to say. [5]
But, unfortunately, I was from home, and unable to receive her. [14]
In the room was a hot stove, which was more attractive than the cold clouds, but unable to compete in interest with the register. [4]
He, Adrian, had warned her, but she had been unable to resist the entreaties of the sorely punished mother. [10]
And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. [2]
Thus he was utterly unable to see what the future held for him in the way of continued communion with her, to evolve any satisfactory theory as to why she remained in the city. [9]
He looked now upon the characters that covered it, and felt that he was unable to read a word. [10]
I was laid up in my room at the time, and unable to walk. [5]
To him the underlying issue was not democratic, but imperialistic; and this was partly because he was unable to make a mental connection between a European war and the brand of democracy he recognized. [9]
Fifteen applicants were under consideration for the position, and the prudential committee had so far been unable to declare that any of them were completely qualified. [9]
Your uncle was unable, on many accounts, to come here; and he thought that--that as an old friend, you might be willing to talk to me. [9]
The travelers were unable, indeed, to awaken into any feeling of Sabbatical straitness. [4]
With throbbing heart, unable to utter a single word, Ulrich opened the door of the studio, bowing low before the monarch, who without vouchsafing him a single glance, walked solemnly to the painting. [10]
But he was unable to settle himself in his dominions, and the second time he left his country in the power of Rudolph and retired to Prague, where, in 1615, he died unlamented. [4]
Count Rostopchin was unable to reply and, turning obediently, went in the direction indicated. [2]
But she was unable to realize the metamorphosis. [9]
He had been unable to reach Alixe. [11]
But I was unable to proceed. [5]
But he was unable to meet the displeasure in her face. [9]
I was unfortunately unable to make further use of Karabacek's researches as to the Mukaukas. [10]
She evidently felt unable to look at him without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. [2]
I am quite unable to guess why there should be a limit at all to the possession of the product of a man's labor. [5]
Mr. Crewe was unable to go to the wedding, having to attend a directors' meeting of some importance in the West. [9]
Antony had been unable to continue the conflict when parted from me. [10]
He was utterly unable to contemplate the disaster which might ensue if certain financial ties, which were thicker than cables, were snapped. [9]
He feels himself unable to combat it. [4]
He had been unable to attend the auto-da-fe at which the heretics were committed to the flames. [10]
The jury was unable to agree for a long time; but the vexed question was finally decided by agreeing to consider them both prisoners, and then exchanging them. [5]
I have been unable at any time to find a man in an audience who would declare that he had ever known of anybody saying so five years ago. [7]
At last Frau Traut had been unable to resist her entreaties, and allowed her to see her son and hold him a short time in her arms. [10]
Notwithstanding the supposed traditionary advantage of our birthplace, we were unable to dispatch this meal with the celerity of our fellow-voyagers, and consequently, while we lingered over our tea, we found ourselves at the second table. [4]
Miss Millicent Skinner, too, was in a like mysterious way compelled to abdicate her high place in favor of Cynthia, and Wetherell was utterly unable to explain how this miracle was accomplished. [9]
He was unable to wash his hands with proper care, for want of the necessary accommodations. [3]
It had come to that pass that I was truly unable to separate what I had really heard from what I had dreamed in those nightmares to which I have been subject, as before mentioned. [6]
I came here to St. John's full of hope and confidence, gradually to lose both, gradually to realise that there was something wrong with me, that in spite of all my efforts I was unable to make any headway in the right direction. [9]
After supper, unable to sit still, she went out, and, filled with the spirit of adventure, hurried toward Faber Street, which was already thronging with people. [9]
Washington was unable to say anything; he looked from Laura to the miserable creatures who were walking in the corridor with unutterable disgust. [5]
He seemed unable to rise again from his chair; but when she asked him if he were unwell, he said no, with an air of offence, and got quickly to his feet. [8]
At length, unable to remain where I was any longer, I descended to the street and walked uptown in the rain. [9]
I was unable to reconstruct them. [9]
He was unable to procure the Greek fire, but he constructed a vicious torpedo which would have answered the purpose, but the first one prematurely exploded in his wood-house, blowing it clean away, and setting fire to his house. [5]
She was unable to picture him in a great executive office: This tram of thought led her to the unaccustomed task of analyzing his character. [9]
I am unable to perceive an insult to Ohio in the case of Mr. Vallandigham. [7]
Washington was unable to penetrate the designs of the British commander, or to obtain any trusty information of the intentions or the movements of the British army. [4]
My father, unable to overcome his fatal shyness by any effort of will, had not the courage to withstand this unfairness until he was called home by his mother for his twenty-fifth birthday, and made use of the elixir. [10]
I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
You once spoke to me about the sense of sin --of being unable to feel it. [9]
How much better to do it while we can, lest the war ere long render us pecuniarily unable to do it! [7]
He permitted her to detain him, and when she found herself alone in his presence, at first, with streaming eyes, she was unable to utter a word. [10]
He was unable to decide exactly what it should be. [5]
I am unable to conceive how a message can be less safe by the express than by a staff-officer. [7]
He seemed unable to bear the sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. [2]
Knowing Mr. Stanley to be an able man, and not doubting that he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the subject. [7]
And so, yielding to a pressure which I could not understand, and yet found myself unable to resist, I promised to take a part in the new venture, as an occasional writer in the columns of the new magazine. [6]
I brought it to a close, as well as I could, and published it; but the time and circumstances in which it was produced rendered me always unable to look upon it with satisfaction. [4]
When they were tired of lugging him, they lifted him, with much effort and difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and left him there amid the broken bottles, utterly unable to get down. [4]
But by the time this letter, which proved that the real relation of the forces had already made itself felt in Petersburg, was dispatched, Kutuzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place. [2]
Now, even had time permitted, she would have been unable to have her hair arranged, she felt so weak and yet so feverishly excited. [10]
Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. [2]
Foreigners, who read this sad story, will be unable to understand any other termination of it. [5]
The superior had therefore been unable to devote herself to Paula till this portable property had been under review. [10]
The beetle lay there working its helpless legs, unable to turn over. [5]
In his soul there suddenly arose such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, that unable to explain his condition to himself he lay down and fell asleep at once. [2]
Natasha went to the table and without a moment's reflection wrote that answer to Princess Mary which she had been unable to write all the morning. [2]
We knock up the sleeping hostlers, change horses, and go on again, dead sleepy, but unable to get a wink. [4]
Yet, such is the inconsistency of human nature, I was now unable to contemplate this attitude with calmness. [9]
In spite of the fact that I was unable to relate to a satisfying conception of religion my new-born determination, I made up my mind, at least, to renounce my tortuous ways. [9]
Even ladies catch the climbing mania, and are unable to throw it off. [5]
Was it not that you found yourself unable to reason yourself out of it? [7]
Why was it that the Church which cared for Mr. Ferguson's soul was unable to get in touch with, or make an appeal to, those of his thousand employees? [9]
When returning by that street she had been unable to pass because of a drunken crowd rioting in front of the shop. [2]
He recounted, therefore, that Mr. Bentley had failed; and how he had before that given much of his estate away in charity, how he had been unable to keep his pew in St. John's, and had retired to the house in Dalton Street. [9]
Among men of talent there are plebeians as well as patricians; even genius, which is never vulgar, is sometimes unable to hide the vulgarity of the aims and ideas which it clothes with beauty without concealing their essential nature. [4]
The most alarming symptom was a profound prostration, which at last reached such a point that he lay utterly helpless, as unable to move without aid as the feeblest of paralytics. [6]
The insult had stung her, had driven her back into a reserve, out of which she seemed unable to emerge. [11]
With all her strength she made it her own, and soon she felt absolutely sure that when he knew she was so near him he had been unable to resist the desire to gaze once more into her face. [10]

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