I do not seem to doubt a large willingness among our people to-day for mutual service and helpfulnessI believe a vast number of our young women of the well-to-do type are at this moment deeply regretting their inability to do anything except knit superfluous mufflersbut was there ever in the history of the world such huge, such wide-flooding incompetence?

The reins almost fell from his hands; and, in trembling accents, he declared his total inability to proceed any further.

If, therefore, one of the most eminent of recent scientific botanists confessed his inability to explain this strange peculiarity, we may excuse the savage if he regard it as another proof of a distinct personality in plant life.

The situation was becoming ludicrous to Sir Edward, though there was a certain amount of annoyance at feeling his inability to carry out his threat.

Do not criticise your horse or his equipments, do not profess inability to mount, but when you master says "Now!"

Oncken does not quote any of the "peaceful explanations" (friedliche Erklärungen), and much as the present writer would like to fill up this gap in his work, he must admit his utter inability, because in the diplomatic correspondence he can only find exasperating threats, thrown out to Russia by the two Germanic Empires.

It was quite a crucial test, and Otway proved his entire inability to face the public.

" 'He said at another time, three or four days only before his death, speaking of the little fear he had of undergoing a chirurgical operation, "I would give one of these legs for a year more of life, I mean of comfortable life, not such as that which I now suffer;"and lamented much his inability to read during his hours of restlessness; "I used formerly, (he added,) when sleepless in bed, to read like a Turk.

Besides these are metrical versions of certain Psalmswhich are valuable, in view of the controversy anent Shakespeare's plays, for showing Bacon's utter inability to write poetryand a large number of letters and state papers showing the range and power of his intellect.

BOOK VIII CONTINUATION OF CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR ASCRIBED TO AULUS HIRTIUS PREFACE Prevailed on by your continued solicitations, Balbus, I have engaged in a most difficult task, as my daily refusals appear to plead not my inability, but indolence, as an excuse.

" At the end of another half hour Dr. Price announced his inability to remove the obstruction without resorting to more serious measures.

Too well he knew his inability to control his unfortunate face.

As I took in this scene, I realized my own littleness, my helplessness, my dread exposure to destruction, my inability to cope with or even comprehend the mighty architecture of nature.

Of course she is pictured as the tallest of women, and it is in regard to the question of stature that the Greeks once more betray their ultra-masculine inability to appreciate true femininity; as, for example, in the stupid remark of Aristotle (Eth.

Unless you have really some talent for acting and some readiness of speech, you should remember that you only put others out and expose your own inability by taking part in these entertainments.

Indeed I cannot too strongly confess my own ignorance or fear my own inability.

Both in parliament and out, it was publicly boasted that the Union would soon fall to pieces, and that, finding their inability to govern themselves, the different States would, one by one, supplicate to be received back as colonies.

I observed their inability, often described, to convey an abstract idea.

"Madame," he replied calmly, "your Majesty shall have no reason to visit the same reproach on me, for it is with extreme regret that I protest my utter inability to serve you on this occasion.

Nothing remains, then, but to acknowledge the inability to discover it, to advocate poulticing, or some other expectant palliative measure, and to bring the case up for further examination at no distant date.

His mother understood him, though the others didn't, and seeing his inability to say what kind of work he would put his hand to, she had spoken of Annie McGrath.

Two girls passing through the hall made a pretext of looking for a book and came in and exclaimed over their inability to find it with much suppressed giggling.

His nostalgia in the land of exile, estranged from every refinement, was greatly enhanced by the fact that he could not get on with ordinary men, but exhibited almost to the last a practical incapacity, a curious inability to do the sane and secure thing.

There exists often an utter inability to perceive differences between even the primary colors.

In these periods he experienced an inability to remember his own music long enough to write it down.