unprocurable

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Consequently his excellent version is caviaire to the general — practically unprocurable.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

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.

Icing Equipment... 2007

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.

Icing Equipment... 2007

Hesiod, who not only tell lies but bad lies; stories about Uranus and Saturn, which are immoral as well as false, and which should never be spoken of to young persons, or indeed at all; or, if at all, then in a mystery, after the sacrifice, not of an Eleusinian pig, but of some unprocurable animal.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

But if there is an absolute necessity for their mention, a chosen few might hear them in a mystery, and they should sacrifice not a common [Eleusinian] pig, but some huge and unprocurable victim; and then the number of the hearers will be very few indeed.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

While he lay helpless and suffering representatives of the police force visited the spot and the sick man was taken by steamer to a hospital, where he passed away — peradventure, in antagonism to his own personal belief, to that “good place” fancied by some of his countrymen, where tucker is plentiful and opium and rum unprocurable.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Old Pete continued to press for his plan until the second week in March, when he concluded that the animals and forage were unprocurable.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Old Pete continued to press for his plan until the second week in March, when he concluded that the animals and forage were unprocurable.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001