Adjective : insupportable pain. ,an insupportable accusation. From Dictionary.com.
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
QUOTATION: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
What I endure is almost insupportable -- it is too hard. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
With this insupportable toil, or rather, infernal trade, the. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
The continual uncertainty in which you keep me is insupportable!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The idea that he shot his friend Chris for this end is insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Minus the Blarney] Reference
This increased the pain in my head to an almost insupportable degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
I resolved immediately to suppress this insupportable insubordination. From Wordnik.com. [A Disobedient Hand] Reference
There was a word to an usher, and once more the insupportable silence. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
You have had too much excitement, and the odors here are insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This painful restraint would have become insupportable had not the young. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Forced confessions and falsified or insupportable evidence were the norm. From Wordnik.com. [Let The Jury Decide] Reference
The air is so dry, however, that the extreme heat of day is by no means insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The fraudulent possessor of the notes felt their burthen more than ever insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Although the recital of the story was well-nigh insupportable, I wished to hear it again. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This insupportable view is no longer politically correct even among adherents of chemical usage. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Life appeared to her once more as something too vile, too useless, too insupportable to be borne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Lewis Mortimer, to whom she had given her young heart's affections, was now almost insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer] Reference
And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly enkindled: to Moses also the thing seemed insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
To increase his miseries, almost insupportable mental anguish was added to his physical suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
The devices for drawing tribute from all quarters were multiplied to an almost insupportable extent. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Sorrento lacerated his heart, and to see her he loved the wife of another would to him be insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
All these gladiators glistening with oil felt in the bottom of their souls an insupportable wretchedness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Consent quivered from my shrinking lips -- I gave my trembling hand to the unknown, unloved, insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"" Without waterworks, the crowded conditions of the modern world would be utterly insupportable, '' he says. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of Big Ideas] Reference
About noon, as the heat became insupportable, all returned to the cottage, and worked at different employments. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
A private wrong, insupportable though it might be, seemed so small amid that deadly clamor and awful expectation!. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
The fact that military wages are so paltry that some soldiers and survivors qualify for food stamps is insupportable. From Wordnik.com. [SCRAP METAL, NOT SOLDIERS] Reference
All external sensations caused me insupportable fatigue, all well-known objects of daily life repelled and annoyed me; if. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Never shall I forget the hilarity, the almost insupportable joy, with which the first part of this journey was performed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
It seemed as if the contemplated voyage was to bring upon her a series of the saddest and most insupportable humiliations. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
It may even forbid me to increase my income by using my property in ways which will make me insupportable to my neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
I had told Brigitte that it was best to let them talk and pay no attention to them; but the truth is, it became insupportable to me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is uninteresting, and the heat and the humidity of the climate render it almost insupportable in certain seasons and hours of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
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