What is "insupportable"

Usage examples of "insupportable".

Ragged masses of vapor drove along the beach, on which the tormented shingles sounded as if poured out in cartloads, while the sand raised by the wind added as it were mineral dust to that which was liquid, and rendered the united attack insupportable.

When her mission on Tahiti had been accomplished and she was westward bound, among the islands of the Tongan Group, Fletcher Christian, second-in-command of the vessel, raised the men in revolt against Captain William Bligh, whose conduct he considered cruel and insupportable.

As he shrugged into it, the brass buttons sparkled and Garry's eyes narrowed, Damn you, sir, your insolence is insupportable.

Now all the impressions of burning desire, from the lively scenes I had been spectatress of, ripened by the heat of this exercise, and collecting to a head, throbb'd and agi-tated me with insupportable irritations: I did not now enjoy a calm of reason enough to perceive, but I extatically, in-deed, felt the power of such rare and exquisite provocatives, as the examples of the night had proved towards thus exalting our pleasures: which, with great joy, I sensibly found my gallant shared in, by his nervous and home expressions of it: his eyes flashing eloquent flames, his action infuriated with the stings of it, all conspiring to rise my delight by assur-ing me of his.

The thought of his degradation before Isabella Linwood was insupportable.

While making no secret of the fact that he found the great player’s affectations insupportable, his odd mispronunciations ruining his most brilliant histrionic flights, he took a box at Covent Garden, and escorted Sophy there, with Cecilia and Mr.

At the same time I breathed an insupportable fetor, like a mingling of rancid serpent-stench with the moldiness of antique charnels and the fearsome reek of newly decaying carrion.

He seemed to be drowning beneath an infinite sea of darkness, beneath the accumulation of shoreless gulfs, and above this sea, so far away that he lost it again and again, there thrilled a supernal melody, sweet as the singing of sirens or the fabled music of the spheres, together with an insupportable dissonance like the shattering of all the battlements of time.

When fatigue becomes insupportable, she prostrates herself, her face against the marble and her arms crossed.

No matter how insupportable the claims of these cures, their benefits would be vehemently supported as self-evident truth.

Legitimately enough one may condemn the rulers of Italy, those who take upon themselves to shape her political life, and recklessly load her with burdens insupportable.

The launch turned on its cable The tide was rising in the estuary, countering the sluggish flow of the Suwanee Soon the tarpon would leave their feeding in the gulf reefs and come up the nver again But Marc had lost interest in the btg fish now The frustration coming just at the brink of victory had left him tight-coiled and cheated of catharsis He had failed to master the adversary, and now it was gone To begin all over again was insupportable Gathen was outlining his scheme with cool reasonableness.