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After various private adventures he came into his property and volunteered in the service of Spain, where he failed, as usual, from impracticableness.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

It is better to bear the burden of impracticableness, than to stifle conviction and to pare away principle until it becomes more hollowness and triviality.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

Mrs. Falconer was too well aware of the impracticableness of her daughter's temper to tell her upon this occasion the whole truth, even if her own habits would have permitted her to be sincere.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria

St. Leger and Rupert laughed at Dolly, and with her; and Mrs. Copley, in spite of chewing the cud of mortification at Dolly's impracticableness, was beguiled into forgetting herself.

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan

No clerical magistrate had greater weight at sessions, or less of mischievous impracticableness in relation to worldly affairs.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George