"Practicability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in his quarter-deck days in applying for leave or seeking promotion. Many, perhaps most, of the inventions which it was thus sought to father upon the Sea Lords, were happily never more heard of; but here and there one, commending itself by its seeming practicability, was selected for trial and duly put to ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson
... was addressed to the bishops "in council," and prayed for the appointment of a commission to report upon the practicability of making this Church a central bond of union among the Christian people of America, by providing for as much freedom in opinion, discipline, and worship as might be held to be compatible with the essential faith and order ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington
... convinced of the practicability of Jack's scheme that he set about immediately to put it ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll
... clemency and the other murder. M. de Villars not being able to make up his mind, on reaching Nimes, d'Aygaliers assembled the principal Protestants of the town, told them of his plan, showing them its practicability, so that also joined in the good work, and drew up a document in which they asked the marechal to allow them to take up arms and march against the rebels, as they were determined either to bring them back into the good way ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... laughed and cried, all in one bewildering breath. Her plan was simple; it was to slip out of Matocton at dawn, and walk to the near-by station. There they would take the train, and snap their fingers at convention. The scheme sounded preposterous in outline, but she demonstrated its practicability in performance. And ...
— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell
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