unprocurable
- a word derived from procurable.
Example Sentences
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Her works, especially her plays, have become so excessively rare as to be almost unprocurable.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
What is common to-day may be rare a year hence, and quite unprocurable on any terms in two years time.
From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.
It was used chiefly, like Gobelins Tapestry, to make very costly presents, otherwise unprocurable, for grandees and crowned heads.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs
Miss Kathleen wanted a duke, or an earl—a prince of the blood royal being about that time unprocurable; and an attorney, to her Irish ideas, seemed a very poor sort of substitute.
From The Uninhabited House by Riddell, Mrs. J. H.
The "Spanish" variety was closer in grain, but is now almost unprocurable.
From Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship by Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard)
