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Impossibly   /ɪmpˈɑsəbli/   Listen
Impossibly

adverb
1.
To a degree impossible of achievement.  "Impossibly far from sources of supply"





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"Impossibly" Quotes from Famous Books



... chase towards the head of the valley, continuing to neutralize a force many times larger than his own, and which could and ought to have been at this very time doing fatal work against the Confederacy. Presumably he had saved Richmond, and therewith also, not impossibly, the chief army of the South. The chagrin of the Union commanders, who had in vain explained the situation with ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse
... here that reached out and caught her like a bale-hook. It represented an impossibly large-eyed girl, cowering behind a door on whose other side stood a handsome devil in evening dress. He was tugging villainously at a wicked mustache, and his eyes were thrillingly leery. Behind a curtain stood a young man who held a revolver ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... 'uns—both to look at and to go. I roared out this morning, as soon as I was awake, "Next month," which we have been longing to be able to say ever since we have been here. I really do not know how we shall ever knock at the door, when that slowest of all impossibly slow hackney-coaches shall pull ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... for me. I shall be impossibly difficult myself if I meet Mr. Carruthers again, as he has no mother to play these ...
— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn
... Charleston was very rapid. I certainly was in no hurry to have it over, when I had so disagreeable a prospect before me as a trial, and not impossibly an execution. I was treated with less harshness than the rest of the prisoners—perhaps on account of my youth—perhaps because some believed me innocent. I fain ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston


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