THE federal government says "push factors" such as unendurable turmoil back home are behind this surge of asylum-seekers. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Navy intercepts more boatpeople] Reference
They all agree that Prussian supremacy is unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Surely our knowledge of such a fate would be unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
This sort of drama, for us unendurable, gradually separated from. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Margaret Adams, Polly believed existence would have been unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
These are the things which make life so unendurable in an enemy's land. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
"If there is one thing positively unendurable, it is flies in the house!". From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
The bridegroom bows his head under the unendurable weight of this question. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We think the very thought of that would be unendurable even in a better world. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
For nothing is more unendurable than a commentary upon a text which is unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
From this time every effort was made to make Paul's life at Garside unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Forgiveness must be preceded by knowledge, and the thought of that was unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Twenty-Eighth Century was boredom unendurable, the Twenty-Sixth a morass of dullness. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Boomer Dukes] Reference
Without those supplies our suffering would be great and our wretchedness unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
When the mother's complaints became unendurable, the father usually growled out a stern. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
It is a phase in which one feels his own peculiar sorrow as the most unendurable of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
To endure the unendurable, this was his burthen; to be yoked through time with this dolt and fool. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"My dear, it's unendurable," he announced to the little woman opposite, with the nod of a Solomon. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
At first my arm did not pain me much, but it soon began to ache so that it was almost unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Such later films as "Cries and Whispers" (1972) seem nearly unendurable in their pain and intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Famous In Life, Noted In Passing] Reference
To them the placing of non-moral beings in the same scale with moral agents will be utterly unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
At length the pain became absolutely unendurable, and I grew what it is the fashion to call demoralized. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
The sight was more unendurable than encountering the enemy's fire, and I returned to my tree in the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The mixture was soon spluttering over the fire, emitting odors almost unendurable to the hungry, watching Jim. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The bearing of France became so unendurable that Washington offered to take his place at the head of the army. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
He concluded that it was "an evening whose mixture of sanctimony and incompetence proves well-nigh unendurable". From Wordnik.com. [Caledonia gives reviewers a 'hard left'] Reference
Separated from your family and all your kin, and an object of suspicion, you will find your position unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
She has come down to us with a most unenviable record as a scold who made life almost unendurable for her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
Boy trebles have this habit to an unendurable degree, usually screaming those horrible chest-tones up to middle C. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
Discomfort of the hotels was great enough; but, desiccated into the boarding-house can, it became simply unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
A good present or money; a broken necklace shows that you will break a bond which you have grown to feel is unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
The silence is horrible, unendurable; she struggles to break it, and her voice sounds to her own amazement perfectly natural. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
So, too, in manners; how many mothers apologize for their unendurable little ruffians by saying, "You know boys will be rude!". From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The weather was now too hot for walking, but all day in the chair was unendurable, so I hoped here to hire a pony for half a stage. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Blockade duty is perhaps a harder test of this love than actual field service; and as months pass on, it becomes almost unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
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