← Not to buy a book of which I had met the author face to face would have been for me in those days an impossible act of self-denial. 🔊
← I said that the preparations for the Jubilee made London impossible. 🔊
← "You are pleased to sneer," said the devil, who had also risen, "but it is one thing to write about an impossible machine; it is a quite other thing to be a supernatural power." 🔊