" He whipped his horses, and we turned into that maze of dark, ill-lit, narrow streets that lies between the Vosnesenski and the Nevski, turning and winding until we emerged at last into the main thoroughfare again, and then at last we turned into the street I had indicateda wide road of handsome buildings where I knew I was certain to be able to instantly get another drosky.

"But beautiful as this variety is, it is difficult to measure it; it has a phantom-like intangibilitywe seem not to be able to bring it under the laws of science.

He nodded frequently, and once or twice a grim smile enhanced the ugliness of his mouth, a smile terrible in its contained savagery, fit to make one's blood run cold, that cruelly relished in anticipation the success of some evil scheme. Not to be able to hear a word was exasperating to a degree....

Thus he observes, according to the popular opinion, that the Spaniards have retained so much Latin as to be able to compose sentences that shall be, at once, grammatically Latin and Castilian: this will appear very unlikely to a man that considers the Spanish terminations; and Howell, who was eminently skilful in the three provincial languages, declares, that, after many essays, he never could effect it .

"You used to be able to run, Betty.

What a princely thing is it to be able to furnish such a band!

As if any mother ought to be able to see any child, ragged, dirty, poor, seeking help and finding none!

accepted the British crown in order to be able to use the strength of England to defend his native country, Holland.

Only too glad to be able to help out.

In this manner they had marched about two and a half miles, when Girty passed them on horseback, informing Kenton that he had friends at the next village, with whose aid he hoped to be able to do something for him.

Not to be able to go where you please, when you please.

And it was several weeks before he was strong enough to be able to write to us.

Educated Hindus profess to be able to understand them, although to a foreigner they are nothing more than meaningless motions.

I was very sorry not to be able to answer at once.

Yes, Dewhurst might have been supposed to be able to "wing a partridge,"not to "flay a gull.

We all wish, indeed, to be able to maintain our present position in the world without a conflict, and we live in the belief that the power of our State will steadily increase without our needing to fight for it.

Men look into such eyes and seem not to be able to see below the surface.

" He was too much moved to be able to replytoo much humbled.

As educated people are apt to be able to figure out ways to improve their lot, learning among the negroes was not encouraged, in fact it was illegal to teach them.

She found it delightful to be able to read what she pleased without being criticised, and to talk about slavery freely.

I should like to say, I write too well to be able to describe to you my inward state of mind.

You ought all to be able to recognise how far you have done what you intended.

"Certainly it's a noble thing to be able to put your hand on your heart and say to the world, 'Come on, all of you!

It became necessary, therefore, to leave him, with a man to attend him, in the woods, and it was a week before he was sufficiently recovered to be able to walk.

In course, I'm not allowed to menshun not no names on these conferdential ocasions, but I did hear "the Commodore" shout to "the King" sumthink about "Hansum is as Hansum does," but it was rayther too late in the heavening for me to be able to quite unnerstand his elusions.