"Art thou an astronomer, that thou lookest so closely at yonder shining world?" demanded Il Maledetto, with the superiority that the mariner afloat is wont successfully to assume over the unhappy wight of a landsman, who is very liable to admit his own impotency on the novel and dangerous element:"the astrologer himself would not study it more deeply.

They believe that to rub the fat of the tiger on the loins, and to eat a piece of the tongue or flesh, will cure impotency; and tiger fat, rubbed on a painful part of the body, is an accepted specific for rheumatic affections.

The military and public organisations must also be such as not only to result in outside efficiency, but also at the same time guarantee internal impotency.

But there was no other show of military force, for the politic power which ruled in Venice, knew too well its momentary impotency, to irritate when it could not quell.

As to René, his is the vain sentimentality parading its own impotency for higher feelings, a virtual boasting of want of soul,the sickly dissatisfaction of Werther, without his passion for an excuse.

He ridicules their morals and their offices as severely as he points out their impotency to bestow happiness.

I suspect that the captain had begun to realize the impotency of his command in front of Enfield rifles.

It shows the utter impotency of a struggle against the Divine will, and that when a man relies upon himself for preservation, he depends upon a broken reed.

He is qualified for taking away our impotency, so that through him we can do all things, Philip, iv. 13; "when we are weak, we are strong in him who is our strength, and liveth in us," 2 Cor.

Ahab has now witnessed with his own eyes the impotency of the prophets of Baal, and the marvellous power of the messenger of Jehovah.