While he thus alternately gave up his mind to this flux and reflux of sublime philosophy and intolerable grief, he advanced toward the frontiers of Egypt; and his faithful domestic was already in the first village, in search of a lodging.

The whole system of prevention, or rather of capture, after the crime has been committed, seems framed with a view to exasperate the evils of the infernal traffic, to scourge Africa with more intolerable torments, and to make human blood be spilt like water.

He had himself seen the unhappy natives put together in heaps in the hold of a ship, where, with every possible attention to them, their situation must have been intolerable.

Intolerable XXVWhy Virtue Is So Often Overcome XXVILove

It is obvious that to allow Serbia these two outlets, while leaving their surroundings to another State, would create immediate and intolerable friction; whereas to assign the southern half of Dalmatia to Bosnia, but to leave the northern half in other hands, would be keenly resented by the Dalmatians themselves, as an outrage alike upon their national and their local traditions.

As far as I could see, no one appeared to regard it as an intolerable hardship.

The incessant object of every great state has been to increase the strength of its armed forces up to the point at which the cost becomes intolerable.

When he spoke of the future my heart cried out against it; it was intolerable to me.

But she might not always hide from Aipytos the seed of the god within her; and he in his heart struggling with bitter strain against a grief too great for speech betook him to Pytho that he might ask of the oracle concerning the intolerable woe.

Although the thought of this profession became more and more repugnant, and finally intolerable, he passed his final examinations satisfactorily.

Again in taking away our friends, death does not take them away utterly, but leaves behind a mocking, tragical, and soon intolerable residue, which must be hurriedly concealed.

Talk might be to such an one the very way of moral ruin; the school where he might learn to be at once intolerable and ridiculous.

His last recorded remark, on the last night of his life, was after he had been arguing against Calvinism with his minister and was interrupted by an intolerable pang.

On this occasion, a Tartar was appointed to be our guide to Theodosia, and we parted from the escort, not without considerable apprehensions of some sudden attack from the Tartars, yet much satisfied at getting rid of that crew, for they smelt so abominably, from feeding on horse flesh, that it was quite intolerable to come near them.

Peace was signed at the treaty of Paris in 1763, and young MacMurray found himself quartered at Chatham, where the monotony of the life to a young man of an active and energetic temperament became almost intolerable.

Now, the subjects of it are all, I suppose, gone ad plures; otherwise it would be intolerable.

If the Etrurians possessed the same spirit which formerly Porsena and their ancestors once had, there was nothing to prevent their obliging the Romans, driven from all the lands on this side of the Tiber, to fight for their own existence, and not for the intolerable dominion which they assumed over Italy.

For a short time after, while the cold continued intolerable, rest was given to the soldiers; and having set out from his winter quarters on the first and uncertain indications of spring, he leads them into Etruria, intending to gain that nation to his side, like the Gauls and Ligurians, either by force or favour.

Spring was now at hand, when Hannibal quitted his winter quarters, having both attempted in vain to cross the Apennines, from the intolerable cold, and having remained with great danger and alarm.

Its effluvium was intolerable, and well accounted for by (loathsome spectacle!)

Those tourist crowds suffered intolerable things, which I shared with them, though I was a different kind of traveller.

Thirst, intolerable and choking, was a greater pain in those hot dog-days and in those tedious interminable journeys.

It was, I assure you, an intolerable agony.

The boat was oldthe packs of skins were oldtheir vicinity in a dry day had been anything but agreeablenow it was intolerable.

Quarter of an hour of sincerity would be intolerable; ...