Example Sentences

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"What you have somewhat incapably overlooked, Ming-shu, is the fact that I never greet this intelligent and painstaking young man without reminding him of the imminence of his fate and of his suitability for it."

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest

"But did it never occur to you to ask at one of the stations?" he demanded, still continuing to wave his hands incapably from side to side.

From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Bramah, Ernest

Peach-bloom held against her cheek withers incapably by comparison.

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest

What a hardened rogue you are!" thought Dr. Upround; "how feebly and incapably I must have put it!

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Mrs. Coolahan had probably assumed that either Julia was incapably drunk, or had been dismissed without benefit of clergy; at all events she had recognised that diplomatically it was correct to change the conversation.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by Somerville, E. Oe. (Edith Oenone)