"Impasse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... question for us, just now, seems to me to be how to gain time. "Time brings counsel," as the Teutonic proverb has it; and wiser folk among our posterity may see their way out of that which at present looks like an impasse. ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... that. Besides, in this case there are complications. Miss Ward has pots of money, and poor old Carr has nothing but what he makes. He'll get on all right—a fellow with that chin is bound to get on—but it takes time, and meantime it's a bit of an impasse. A fellow doesn't mind his wife having some money—it's a good thing for her as well as for himself—but when it comes to a pile like that—well, if he has any self-respect, ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
... than ever held the reins of state and city government. But the latter proved a fractious steed. For all his dauntless vigor and political astuteness, Destiny as yet withheld from Broderick the coveted United States senatorship. At best he had achieved an impasse, a dog-in-the-manger victory. By preventing the election of a rival he had gained little and incurred much censure for depriving the State of national representation. Benito and Alice tried to rouse him from ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... was at the corner of the Rue de la Montagne du Parc and the Rue Royale, and was next to the Hotel de France. The Count de Lannoy's house was at the south-east corner of the Impasse ...
— A Week at Waterloo in 1815 • Magdalene De Lancey
... of centuries upon its western door. More degraded still, to even baser uses, is the Church of St. Cande le Jeune, which has become some kind of an electric manufactory, and may now be chiefly traced by the huge chimney which obstructs the sky as you look up the Impasse Petit Salut towards the Tour de Beurre of the Cathedral. Just opposite the entrance to the public library is another instance of barbarous neglect: the Church of St. Laurent. Once used as a magazine of shops of every kind, sometimes a lost home for decrepit carriages, sometimes a drying-house for ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
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