Socks were going to be unprocurable in a few months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

Touraine remain still untranslated and almost unprocurable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference

Consequently his excellent version is caviaire to the general — practically unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

I have about half-a-ton myself, which, until a few minutes age, would have been quite unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

These garments (I indicated them again) will only be unprocurable because they are in your possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

It was used chiefly, like Gobelins Tapestry, to make very costly presents, otherwise unprocurable, for grandees and crowned heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

Old Pete continued to press for his plan until the second week in March, when he concluded that the animals and forage were unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

Collectors of manuscripts and of unique copies often furnish the book clubs with valuable and otherwise unprocurable material to be printed for the members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference

All was smooth, well finished, and rounded, though there was no paint nor varnish, these articles being doubtless unprocurable and not deemed strictly essential.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

For two days in the sultry heat the Battalion endured the terrible strain of this awful shell fire, the men receiving no proper food and water being unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference

If they are unprocurable in your district you can improvise by attaching a small square of waxed paper to the end of the handle of a wooden spoon, using a dab of royal icing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icing Equipment...] Reference

Everything could be managed except the cream, which was unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

You starve to death: good food is unprocurable save at prohibitive prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure] Reference

The "Spanish" variety was closer in grain, but is now almost unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

Trent was flatly told that the labour they required was absolutely unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Millionaire of Yesterday] Reference

Consequently his excellent version is caviaire to the general -- practically unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Luxuries are unprocurable, but no sensible man will go to a new country expecting luxuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of South Africa] Reference

This is a reprint of a book that has been out of print and quite unprocurable for many years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

Her works, especially her plays, have become so excessively rare as to be almost unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

Furiously they harped upon the facts that bread was dearer now, that coal was nearly unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference

He likes a special kind of sherry, almost unprocurable, I understand, but Baskett is going to hunt for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Peer]

Beef was an impossibility, as no one was allowed to kill a cow, and mutton was almost equally unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny] Reference

We do not know what he would have said — it is just possible that the unprocurable pamphlet, 1601, would supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Essays] Reference

A suit of black velvet, an extremely expensive and almost unprocurable material, brought the courtier's pale features into relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [After London Or, Wild England] Reference

Joe had scoured Chicago for the alcoholic commodities now practically unprocurable, and returned in triumph to the couple's furnished room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

Chaff and oats were then almost unprocurable, and however kind-hearted he might be, a poor man could hardly afford a shilling a gallon to water his horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinifex and Sand] Reference

The place is extremely quiet, and people live very simply, though not cheaply, for prices are high, and domestic service so dear and scarce as to be almost unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of South Africa] Reference

Miltoun) was quite unprocurable -- he had never sold but one other copy, which had been literally, crumbling away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

Only ones expected "to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study ....".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

"Not only is the original edition unprocurable," to quote again from Mr. Gaselee's invaluable bibliography, "but the reprint at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satyricon] Reference

The magazine is unprocurable out here.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life in Letters] Reference

Fresh butter was unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Meanwhile, sugar has been almost unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [My War Experiences in Two Continents] Reference

Provisions there would therefore be unprocurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference